Tag: Competition Appeal Tribunal
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Something for nothing: user damages and abuse of dominance in digital markets
The dominant digital services that structure much of our daily lives do not charge consumers for access. Search engines, social networks, maps, email: all are offered for nothing … yet they are anything but free. It has become a commonplace that we pay in another currency, with our data, our attention and our behavioural patterns,…
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Into Uncharted Waters – Making sense of the CAT’s Apple/CMA judgment
In 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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Meta/Giphy court judgment: The CMA’s controversial merger analysis survives, but its procedures don’t
As readers of this blog know, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) blocked its first Big Tech merger in the Meta/Giphy case. Meta duly appealed to the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”) and the CAT’s judgment was issued last week. The most discussed element of the case has been the CMA’s controversial theories of…