A few weeks ago, I traveled to Mountain View for my first ever in-person Google I/O experience. The presentations included live demonstrations and concrete examples illustrating how updates across a wide range of Google services will meaningfully benefit small businesses and consumers. The event was more than just glitz [...]
California’s technology policy choices rarely stay in California. That is especially true when lawmakers target the platforms, tools, and increasingly the AI-enabled services that many startups and small businesses rely on every day. That is why AB 1776, the COMPETE Act, has taken on such importance. Even after the [...]
Among the various Digital Markets Act (DMA) provisions the European Commission (Commission) is implementing, the “Interoperability” obligation is especially consequential for small business innovators. The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) has voiced concerns with unfettered open access mandates on platforms and operating systems, commenting on the associated implementation records. [...]
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 [...]