Recently, Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) held a public hearing to discuss digital platform regulation—an issue with enormous implications for the ACT | The App Association community both in and outside of Brazil. The App Association has worked with governments around the world to bring small business [...]
One year into the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union’s ambitious effort to regulate competition in the digital economy, startups are seeing more challenges than benefits. The DMA was introduced with the promise of ‘levelling the playing field’ by reining in more dominant technology companies. [...]
For small firms in the app economy, business has always been global. Software developers, brand strategists, app makers, and other tech-focused small businesses sell products and services all over the world. Due to their inherently global nature, small companies competing in digital markets like ACT | The App Association [...]
The court considering the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon scheduled an economics hearing for March 7, providing an opportunity for us to better understand the FTC’s economic thinking. A quick recap of our commentary on the case may help provide some context ahead of the hearing: [...]
For the past couple years, we’ve been sending up flares about the problems with the European Union’s (EU’s) onslaught of digital market regulation. We focused in particular on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), because of how thoroughly it restricts the curated online marketplace (COM) services small app companies leverage [...]