Small Tech Founders Call for Fair H-1B Policy

  ACTivists for Change: Members join forces in a letter to the White House, urging balanced, startup-friendly reforms   While national conversations about the H-1B program often focus on large companies, our members live a different reality. These teams are lean, product-driven, and often hire for highly specialized roles where [...]

Small Tech Companies from Across the U.S. Call on White House to Reverse Course on H-1B Visa Fee

  President Donald J. Trump The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington, District of Columbia 20003   Dear Mr. President: We are the small business founders, innovators, and independent developers building the technologies that power America’s digital economy. Through our collective voice along with ACT | The App Association, [...]

By |2025-12-16T13:58:29-05:00December 18th, 2025|Competition, Letters, United States|

The 1-2-3s of Age Verification Compliance in the United States

  Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent developers. And, as we have seen in other efforts to use age verification methods, the very [...]

Empowering Europe’s Innovators Through the 28th Regime and the European Innovation Act

  EU ACTivists for Change: Members join forces to make the Single Market work for startups Across Europe, startups, scaleups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are building world-class products, but their growth path is still more complicated than it should be. EU startups face 27 different systems for incorporation, [...]

By |2025-12-02T15:44:56-05:00December 2nd, 2025|App Economy, Blog, Competition, European Union, Letters, Policy, Tech Regulation, Trends|
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