Partners Damien Geradin and Stijn Huijts had the pleasure of sitting down with Joost Rietveld, an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the UCL School of Management, University College London, to discuss his fascinating insights into platform competition and strategy.
Joost has been a major contributor to the public debate in this area…
On 25 March 2024, the Commission announced that it had opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into three of the companies that have been designated as gatekeepers, namely Alphabet, Apple, and Meta. These investigations concern various issues, including rules on steering in app stores, choice screens for browsers, self-preferencing in general search,…
The UK’s mobile sector is highly competitive. Ofcom, the telecoms regulator, has spent the last few decades carefully designing spectrum auctions and other measures to foster fierce competition among the four mobile network operators. I’m currently paying £10 ($12.70) per month for unlimited 5G data on the best network for coverage. When I was at…
Partners Ruben Elkerbout and Stijn Huijts had the pleasure of catching up with Martijn Snoep, the head of the Dutch Competition Authority (ACM) recently. Mr Snoep moved to the ACM from law firm De Brauw in 2018. He has been at the forefront of many internationally renowned initiatives at the ACM, including an investigation into…
Today, the large digital platforms that have been designated by the European Commission as “gatekeepers” must start to comply with the Digital Markets Act (or DMA). This marks a milestone for businesses operating in the EU because the DMA will resolve many challenges they face in their relations with gatekeepers, such as lack of access…
For those of you that have been monitoring the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill’s journey through Parliament, fear not. The end is in sight.
Last November, my colleague Tom Smith wrote about the changes to the Bill as it was leaving the House of Commons. Since then, the Bill has received its first…
I am very pleased that Fiona Scott Morton has accepted to be interviewed by the Platform Law Blog. Fiona is the Theodore Nierenberg at the Yale School of Management and one of the best IO economists in the world. She recently spent several months in Brussels as a research fellow at Bruegel, a leading think-tank.…
Yesterday, Apple made an important announcement regarding changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union in response to the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”). This announcement covers a lot of ground and should be read in parallel with a number of accompanying documents.
In this blog post, I discuss my first (and…
Fifteen years ago, the world was in the midst of a financial crisis and central bankers were forced to intervene to restore trust in the financial system. Banks were the biggest and most worrying actors in the corporate world. Central banks were the only game in town as unconventional policies such as Quantitative Easing and…
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