WASHINGTON – This week ACT | The App Association Senior Global Counsel Brian Scarpelli participated in the Innovation Network Forum for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), held around the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s (APEC’s) Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) Ministerial meeting in Jeju, Republic of Korea, a key forum for [...]
WASHINGTON – The EU General Court’s decision to uphold the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework is welcome news for small tech companies and developers. ACT | The App Association’s members are global corporations by birth and rely on clear and predictable policy to operate across national borders. “The seamless flow [...]
WASHINGTON – ACT | The App Association applauds today’s ruling by Judge Amit P. Mehta in the United States v Google search antitrust case. Judge Mehta rejected the Department of Justice’s overly broad and unrelated proposed remedies, a significant win for small technology companies and app developers who utilize [...]
WASHINGTON – Statement from Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association: “Today’s announcement doesn’t include much that we already didn’t know and leaves out the biggest non-tariff trade barriers impacting small tech companies in the United States and in Europe” said Morgan Reed, president of ACT | [...]
WASHINGTON – The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has finalized its guidelines to implement the Act on Promotion of Competition for Specific Smartphone Software (SSCPA). ACT | The App Association issued the following statement: "The App Association remains deeply concerned with Japan's intervention into curated online marketplaces (COMs) through [...]