As of today, I am officially a candidate for the presidency of the #EuropeanInvestmentBank. I am taking leave from the European Commission to focus on my candidacy until the appointment is made. European Investment Bank 🇪🇺

The Bundeskartellamt making efforts not to overlap with the DMA. Following a German probe, Google will offer users choice on how it can combine their data across services, but leaves out those already covered by the DMA (Maps, Search, YouTube, etc). bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Mel…

Apple (Cases T-1079/23 & T-1080/23), ByteDance (TikTok) (T-1077/23) and Meta (T-1078/23) have filed cases contesting decisions taken by the European Commission under the #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA #Competition.

There is, of course, an interesting antitrust angle to the the whole OpenAI saga. Microsoft would never be allowed to acquire OpenAI, but can they just hire whomever they want? What does this mean for the pre- and post-acquisition effects on competition and innovation?

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Los compañeros de EFE en Buenos Aires están haciendo huelga por unos salarios dignos. La media salarial de la plantilla es de 299 euros.

🍏Big Apple news. To comply with the EU’s DMA, the iPhone maker is slashing App Store fees from 30 to 17 %. BUT, it has introduced a new fee for big apps of 0.5 euros per download.

The European Commission decides not to designate Microsoft Advertising, Bing, Edge and iMessage under the DMA. The decisions explaining the EC's reasoning are not public yet.

❗️La Comisión Europea aprueba la fusión de Orange y MásMóvil a condición de que Digi se haga con parte de su espectro.

'Parlement' was ahead of the curve.

My kind of (fake) Sunday read. nytimes.com/2024/03/31/mag…

"Scale is all you need". Amazing reporting on how today's AI powerhouses trained their models with all sorts of content from the internet. nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…

So, you say this one is finally happening today? ‼️EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager announces today an anti-subsidy probe into Chinese suppliers of wind turbines.

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It's been a while since I haven't posted here, but I believe the occasion merits it: After three great years at MLex, I have joined Mergermarket to cover EU and UK competition policy. I'll remain headquartered in Brussels, so do reach out if you'd like to catch up!

.Teresa Ribera meets the Brussels press pack on the antitrust beat.