Washington, D.C. – Last week’s announcement of a new $100,000 tax on H-1B visas is a gut punch to small and medium-sized tech companies. For more than 15 years, ACT | The App Association has firmly held the position that access to H-1B visas for specially skilled employees is [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today in a letter to newly confirmed Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) John Squires, ACT | The App Association and a diverse coalition of industry trade groups provided recommendations to support job creation [...]
WASHINGTON – Today’s Technology Prosperity Deal between the United States and United Kingdom, with investment commitments from private corporations of £31 billion to develop UK AI, has the potential to supercharge transatlantic innovation partnerships for startups and small tech companies. ‘Our members and companies like them are the leading [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – ACT | The App Association is discouraged by today’s announcement from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of proposed legislation to regulate the digital economy, similar to the approach taken in the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA so far has produced no [...]