About Association for Competitive Technology

ACT is a global trade association for small and medium-sized technology companies. Our members are entrepreneurs, innovators, and independent developers within the global app ecosystem that engage with verticals across every industry. We work with our members to promote a policy environment that rewards and inspires innovation while providing resources that help them raise capital, create jobs, and continue to build incredible technology.

ACT | The App Association Cautions Zuckerberg: Audits are Not the Answer

Washington, D.C - This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Senate Judiciary and House Energy and Finance Committees on his platform's recent data privacy scandal. Ahead of the hearings, ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed issued the following statement cautioning against policies that may impose exhaustive [...]

By |2025-10-02T15:01:12-04:00April 10th, 2018|Uncategorized|

How Do Networks Work?

2.5 quintillion bytes of data are shared on the internet every day. Do you ever wonder how your data gets from Point A to Point B so quickly and efficiently? ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed explains how a network works, and why network management is so essential. https://youtu.be/2YDdGy6UcJg

By |2018-09-20T16:29:40-04:00March 22nd, 2018|Blog, Trends|

ACT | The App Association applauds the inclusion of the CLOUD Act in the Omnibus Spending Bill

ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed issued the following statement in support of the inclusion of H.R. 4943/ S. 2383, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Access to Data (CLOUD) Act, in the omnibus spending bill. "We applaud leadership in Congress for including the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data [...]

By |2025-10-02T15:01:22-04:00March 21st, 2018|Blog|

Artificial Intelligence: Breakthroughs, Governance, and the Role of Small Businesses

At a recent hearing at the House Oversight Subcommittee on Information Technology, Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY) asked a panel of technologists to estimate when they believed artificial intelligence (AI) would pass the Turing Test. The Turing Test measures if a machine exhibits intelligent behavior indistinguishable from a human. The witnesses [...]

By |2018-03-05T16:34:31-05:00March 5th, 2018|Blog|
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