ACT’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we showcase these trailblazing small businesses and their cutting-edge achievements. Around the globe, small teams and solo founders navigate a patchwork of competition policies, from privacy laws to mergers and acquisitions; the [...]
ACT calls on Dublin to take the lead in realising the promise of a Single Market that fully supports start-ups and scale-ups.
“A tool never started a business; a person did.” That observation, made by Theresa Bedeau, vice chair of the board of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), during discussions at the organization’s Small Business Summit, captures an important reality about artificial intelligence (AI) and entrepreneurship. The summit, hosted in [...]
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) comments on the impact for startups and small businesses in today’s announcement from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on business software and cloud services. ‘Small app developers benefit from the trust, security, and global reach that app stores provide. [...]
Last week, the European Commission (Commission) gave shape to inchoate fears of Digital Markets Act (DMA) “mission creep,” as it issued a preliminary recommendation to designate Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services as DMA “gatekeepers.” Even against a backdrop of steadfast refusals to observe its own legal restraints under DMA, [...]