Amid proliferating efforts at both the federal and state levels to regulate children’s online safety, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) recently issued its opinion in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Addressing First Amendment concerns, the Court ruled in favor of upholding a Texas law that mandates age verification for [...]
What do European startups want policymakers to focus on? We went on a five-week, nine-city “Developed: EU” tour to find out. From May to June 2025, ACT | The App Association hit the road on our Developed: EU tour, a multi-city trek across Europe to meet with members of the [...]
What do European startups want policymakers to focus on? We went on a five-week, nine-city “Developed: EU” tour to find out. From May to June 2025, ACT | The App Association hit the road on our Developed: EU tour, a multi-city trek across Europe to meet with members of [...]
Big changes are coming for any startup, scaleup, or small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the EU’s connected products (e.g. connected cars, medical and fitness devices), services (i.e. anything that would make a connected product operate in a specific way, such as an app to adjust the brightness of [...]
As partisan tensions boil over in Texas and California, where the respective minority parties cry foul over redistricting, federal antitrust enforcers and private plaintiffs are doing some gerrymandering of their own. In a win-at-all-costs approach, the plaintiffs are sacrificing the interests of small business app developers and consumers [...]
