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Into Uncharted Waters – Making sense of the CAT’s Apple/CMA judgment
Continue reading: Into Uncharted Waters – Making sense of the CAT’s Apple/CMA judgmentIn November last year, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) started a market investigation into the supply of web browsers and browser engines on mobile devices, and the distribution of cloud gaming services through app stores on mobile devices. However, Apple appealed the CMA’s decision to make a market investigation reference (MIR) in the…
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Spinning Amazon’s Flywheel: How Amazon’s Business Model Harms Competition
Continue reading: Spinning Amazon’s Flywheel: How Amazon’s Business Model Harms CompetitionRegular readers of this blog may have noticed that we’ve been writing more about Amazon. We believe competition law has not yet fully grappled with its multifaceted business model, which has the Prime membership bundle of products at its core. Damien Geradin and I are therefore pleased to share our detailed paper on Amazon’s business…
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Interview with Tom Fish, Head of public policy and research at Gener8, and formerly Assistant Director at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority
Continue reading: Interview with Tom Fish, Head of public policy and research at Gener8, and formerly Assistant Director at the UK’s Competition and Markets AuthorityTom Smith, Geradin Partners: November 2022 was an important month for the UK’s efforts to curb the power of big tech. The Chancellor announced in his Autumn Statement that the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill will be introduced into parliament in the 3rd parliamentary session (it is currently rumoured to be scheduled for April…
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Making sense of NCAs’ roles under the DMA – The Dutch proposal
Continue reading: Making sense of NCAs’ roles under the DMA – The Dutch proposalIn the run-up to the enactment of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission strongly defended its exclusive jurisdiction to enforce it. Despite valiant efforts on the part of several national competition authorities (NCAs) who wanted a formal role enforcing the new rules, the Commission’s exclusive competence remains largely in place in the…
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The DMA is coming. Here’s what it will mean for mobile gaming
Continue reading: The DMA is coming. Here’s what it will mean for mobile gamingThe App Store and Play Store are huge profit generators for Apple and Google. As explained by Judge Gonzalez Rogers in her Epic v Apple judgment of September 2021, gaming apps account for approximately 70% of all App Store revenues. According to some, this means that Apple makes more money from games than Microsoft, Sony,…
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The Responsible Online Commerce Coalition (ROCC): Businesses team up to ensure a level playing field in e-commerce
Continue reading: The Responsible Online Commerce Coalition (ROCC): Businesses team up to ensure a level playing field in e-commerceAmazon’s revenues reached half a trillion dollars in 2022, having increased tenfold in a decade. There are few companies as fascinating and impressive as Amazon and arguably no other company occupies such a central position in the modern retail economy in the US and Europe. Its famous e-commerce platform represents more than half of e-commerce…
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Geradin Partners to host London cloud gaming event on 8 March
Continue reading: Geradin Partners to host London cloud gaming event on 8 MarchOn 8 March 2023, Geradin Partners is hosting the first ever legal event discussing the competition and regulatory aspects of cloud gaming. A stellar cast of experts from the gaming industry and the competition community will discuss the great potential this technology brings, and how it can develop on a level playing field. Gaming plays…
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The interplay between the DMA and the AVMS Directive
Continue reading: The interplay between the DMA and the AVMS DirectiveAmidst a series of other initiatives in the area of platform regulation, preparations for the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) are well underway. The Commission is informally meeting with interested stakeholders in order to gather information about specific services and practices that should be covered by the DMA. Companies that meet the DMA thresholds are…
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US Department of Justice sues Google, seeks to break up its ad tech business
Continue reading: US Department of Justice sues Google, seeks to break up its ad tech businessOn 24 January 2023, in what Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter described as a “historic moment”, the US Department of Justice (“DoJ”) filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia over Google’s ad tech business (the text of the complaint is available here). The lawsuit, joined…
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Interview with Sarah Cardell, CEO of the CMA
Continue reading: Interview with Sarah Cardell, CEO of the CMAOn 17 November, the Chancellor announced in his Autumn Statement that the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill will be introduced into parliament in the 3rd session. That is of course welcome news for those who consider that ex ante regulation needs to complement competition law in digital markets. In this context, I am delighted that Sarah…