by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Digital Markets Regulation
⚡ TL;DRAI competition policy is being written now, before the market tips: authorities are probing the compute-and-cloud bottleneck (Nvidia’s chip dominance, hyperscaler dependencies), the partnership web binding frontier labs to Big Tech, data and talent...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Digital Markets Regulation
⚡ TL;DR”Killer acquisitions” — incumbents buying nascent rivals before they can threaten — reshaped merger policy: below-threshold deals now face UK share-of-supply review, deal-value thresholds (Germany, Austria, India), Türkiye’s tech-target...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Digital Markets Regulation
⚡ TL;DRThe UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC), in force since January 2025, gives the CMA’s Digital Markets Unit power to designate firms with Strategic Market Status (SMS) — substantial and entrenched market power in a digital...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Digital Markets Regulation
⚡ TL;DRTwo years into enforcement, the DMA has produced its first fines (Apple €500 million for steering restrictions, Meta €200 million over pay-or-consent), engineering-level specification decisions on Apple interoperability, retargeted investigations...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Competition & Antitrust, Digital Markets Regulation
⚡ TL;DRThe EU Digital Markets Act regulates “gatekeepers” — platforms with €7.5 billion+ EEA turnover (or €75 billion market value), 45 million+ monthly EU users and 10,000+ yearly business users — through per-se obligations: no...
