Tag: Big Tech

  • Antitrust is turning its eye to gaming

    Antitrust is turning its eye to gaming

    Last week, I spoke at the Video Games Bar Association’s annual summit which took place at devcom in Cologne, Germany. The event confirmed to me that gaming is where the innovative technologies of the future are in many ways already a reality today. It was my contention at the conference that competition law is turning…

  • UK and Germany double up on Amazon

    UK and Germany double up on Amazon

    Some days you just can’t get a break. Amazon was the recipient of not one but two pieces of bad news yesterday, with the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announcing that it has launched an investigation under the Competition Act 1998 into possible abuses of dominance by Amazon, and the German Federal Cartel Office…

  • Maintaining a level playing field when Big Tech disrupts the financial services sector

    Maintaining a level playing field when Big Tech disrupts the financial services sector

    Hello from me to all Platform Law Blog subscribers!  I joined Geradin Partners last week, based in London.  I hope I can help the team shed light on some of the complex and fascinating issues that the blog covers. To kick off, Damien and I have written an article analysing the expansion of Google, Apple,…