The Internet of Things (IoT) M&A market already reached the value of $ 14.8bn in 2015 which is more than the value reached during the whole 2014 showing an impressive growth.
The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) sanctioned three e-commerce operators for unfair commercial practices due to lack (or delay) in the delivery of products initially declared to be in stock and due to false information provided to consumers on refunds.
The Expo area in Milan in one of the 1st examples of smart cities in Italy which shows the massive potentials of the IoT, but what regulatory changes are necessary to replicate it across Europe?
New Italian privacy cookies rules will come into force on the 2nd of June 2015 requiring relevant technical and content changes to ecommerce, gaming, news, etc. Internet sites.
The announcement of the integration between SNAI and Cogemat/Cogetech is just the beginning of a season of major acquisitions in gaming sector. But what is the right approach to enter into a new market or consolidate the market position?
Booking.com reached a settlement with competition authorities on "most favourite nation" clauses that have been deemed to be in breach of competition laws, with potential consequences for the whole ecommerce market.
Distributing products and services in the US requires facing with considerable legal issues that should be tackled at their outset to avoid troubles at a later stage.
The end of April was the deadline for the payment of the € 200M contribution by gaming machine licensees in Italy, but it is unclear who borne such cost between the supply chain and the licensees.
The Internet of Things (IoT) has an essential component in free and open source software, and this will be topic of our next DLA Piper webinar on 20 May 2015 at 4 pm UK time!
It was a quite busy week, but I made it. And as usual you can get access to the presentations that I gave on the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and M2M on this blog.