A Developer Community Spotlight with Five Unique Startup Founders For startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the Digital Markets Act (DMA) isn’t just an abstract policy; it’s a daily reality. These companies operate with limited resources and rely heavily on the tools and services that platforms provide. [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – ACT | The App Association is discouraged by today’s announcement from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of proposed legislation to regulate the digital economy, similar to the approach taken in the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA so far has produced no [...]
The recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and related regulations drew intense attention in Washington and beyond. Representing small app developers and connected device makers across the United States and Europe, ACT | The App Association’s president Morgan Reed underscored how Europe’s regulatory experiments [...]
WASHINGTON – Statement from Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association: “Today’s announcement doesn’t include much that we already didn’t know and leaves out the biggest non-tariff trade barriers impacting small tech companies in the United States and in Europe” said Morgan Reed, president of ACT | [...]
As partisan tensions boil over in Texas and California, where the respective minority parties cry foul over redistricting, federal antitrust enforcers and private plaintiffs are doing some gerrymandering of their own. In a win-at-all-costs approach, the plaintiffs are sacrificing the interests of small business app developers and consumers [...]
