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Facebook May Fare Better than Google, Apple After EU Antitrust Report

April 12, 2019April 26, 2019Editorial

The European Commission published on April 4 a report on Competition Policy for the digital era that may be less damaging for Facebook than for Google, Amazon and Apple. Proposals include imposing obligations on the internet platforms as essential facilities, requiring data interoperability between rivals and a presumption that some activities are anticompetitive unless the companies prove otherwise.

Spotify’s Chances Against Apple Hinges On Market Definition

April 6, 2019May 17, 2019Editorial

Spotify filed on March 13 an antitrust complaint against Apple for allegedly leveraging its market power on the app store to limit Spotify’s access to iOS users. Yet, EU precedents on music streaming app services suggest that Apple may not be dominant in some relevant markets and if this is still true, Apple’s practices, while damaging for Spotify, won’t be anticompetitive.