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. [...]
This week we're starting a return to our official name, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), and moving away from the unofficial moniker “the App Association” that we’ve used as shorthand to describe our membership and our work. The world is experiencing a transformative surge in technological innovation from [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Statement from Morgan Reed, president, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) on AB 1776, the COMPETE Act: “Small and medium-sized technology companies compete by moving quickly, pricing aggressively, bundling services, and building on the platforms and infrastructure that help them reach customers. While AB 1776 tries to protect [...]