A Developer Community Spotlight with Five Unique Startup Founders For startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the Digital Markets Act (DMA) isn’t just an abstract policy; it’s a daily reality. These companies operate with limited resources and rely heavily on the tools and services that platforms provide. [...]
Developers keep users safe by building security-by-design with tools like encryption, authentication, and abuse-prevention protections that are the front line of protection. However, proposals currently being considered in Sweden and at the European Union level could threaten those tools and the critical protections startups and small and medium-sized enterprises [...]
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 [...]
Despite being adopted by a super-majority vote (454 to 83) of the European Parliament, the European Commission decided to withdraw its proposed Standard Essential Patents (SEP) Regulation earlier this year. This leaves startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe exposed to the same unpredictable and costly [...]