The European Commission's ongoing implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) has produced a flood of proposals threatening the very safeguards that keep digital marketplaces and operating systems secure. For ACT members, among the most alarming are measures that would gut the access management functions major operating systems rely [...]
Panelists at the Hill briefing "The Case For and Against an American Digital Markets Act" on April 23, 2026 On April 23, the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) hosted a Hill briefing to examine whether the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) offers a model the United States [...]
Decisions made in Brussels, London, and other capitals around the globe increasingly shape whether startups can raise funds, access markets, and scale worldwide. When the rules of the road aren’t clear or keep shifting, they affect product timelines, increase costs, and make investors turn away. That’s true for early-stage [...]
Around this year’s American Bar Association (ABA) Spring Antitrust Meeting, the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) convened a series of high-level meetings with global competition authorities to advance a shared agenda: ensuring that competition policy supports, rather than stifles, the small and medium-sized innovators driving the global digital economy. [...]