The small business voice is often hardest to hear in debates over “Big Tech” regulation. That was the central takeaway from ACT’s July 2 Hill briefing, AICOA is Back: What “Big Tech” Platform Regulation Means for Small Businesses. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) hosted the packed briefing, with more [...]
“South Korean regulators have consistently targeted Coupang and subjected the company to hostile regulatory treatment, unfair enforcement practices, and disproportionately large penalties not faced by their Korean competitors,” the House Judiciary Committee stated on July 1, 2026, as it released its long-awaited interim report outlining the troubling patterns of [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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, [...]