18 Mar, 2024 Tech "dominates" UK CMA’s latest Annual Plan (again) By Verity Egerton-Doyle Erasmia Petousi 2024 is an important year for the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA): not only is it the regulator's 10th birthday, but 2024 is...
15 Jan, 2024 On to the next? European Commission launches consultation on competition in virtual worlds and GenAI By Verity Egerton-Doyle Erasmia Petousi You might think that with less than two months to go until compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) becomes mandatory on 6 March,...
02 Oct, 2023 Carrot beats stick? The CMA publishes its initial report on AI foundation models By James Hunter Jonathan Ford Verity Egerton-Doyle Erasmia Petousi +1 more... Show less On 18 September 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its initial report on AI foundation models (FMs) i.e....
17 Jul, 2023 Testing how the (third party) cookie will crumble: lessons from the CMA’s quantitative testing guidance on Google's Privacy Sandbox By Verity Egerton-Doyle Peter Church Erasmia Petousi Back in 2021, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) opened an abuse of dominance investigation into Google’s plans to phase...
01 Jun, 2023 DMU Insights #6: What does the new regime mean for investments in UK tech companies? By Nayantara Ravichandran Anna Mitchell Erasmia Petousi Last month, the UK Government introduced the long-awaited draft Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill (see our previous...
10 Mar, 2023 Lessons learnt: are regulators going to move faster to respond to metaverse and AI trends? By Jonathan Ford Anne Dos Erasmia Petousi In a speech delivered earlier this month, Margrethe Vestager repeated the challenges presented by the shift to a digital economy, noting...
24 Nov, 2022 Bringing out the bazooka: UK’s competition authority launches its first market investigation in the tech sector By Verity Egerton-Doyle Erasmia Petousi Earlier this week, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) made a market investigation reference in relation to mobile browsers...
02 Nov, 2022 Metaverse series #8: Metaverse, beware: Competition law is versatile, and the EU's DMA is ‘future proof’ By Violette Grac-Aubert Erasmia Petousi We looked at the metaverse through an antitrust lens in our previous post earlier this year (spoiler alert: the metaverse is not immune...