A Scroll Down Membership Lane: January 2026’s Member Mondays

  ACT | The App Association’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we showcase these trailblazing small businesses and their cutting-edge achievements. As the world enters 2026 with new health goals, we’re spotlighting startups, scaleups, and small and medium-sized tech [...]

The 1-2-3s of Age Verification Compliance in the United States

  Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent developers. And, as we have seen in other efforts to use age verification methods, the very [...]

European Parliament Continues to Stand Up for Startups, Innovation, and Economic Growth

  BRUSSELS – In response to today’s European Parliament Vote to challenge the Commission’s withdrawal of the proposed Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) Regulation: “With a clear majority, today’s vote shows that the European Parliament will not allow the Commission to walk away from much-needed standard-essential patent (SEP) reform without a fight,” [...]

By |2025-11-25T08:10:35-05:00November 25th, 2025|European Union, FRAND, Patents, SEP, Statement|

Support for the Referral of the Commission’s Withdrawal of the Standard Essential Patent Regulation to the Court of Justice of the European Union

  Roberta Metsola President of the European Parliament Rue Wiertz 60 1047 Brussels Belgium Cc: Group Presidents and Members of the European Parliament Re: Support for the Referral of the Commission’s Withdrawal of the Standard Essential Patent Regulation to the Court of Justice of the European Union Dear President Metsola [...]

By |2025-11-24T22:13:16-05:00November 24th, 2025|European Union, FRAND, Letters, Patents, SEP|

Are We in an AI Bubble? What This Global Conversation Means for Startups

  It seems like everyone is talking about the “AI bubble” right now. Whether we’re in one, whether it’s about to burst, or whether we’re only at the beginning of something much larger. From Brussels to London to Washington, the same headline keeps appearing, prompting the same question: what happens [...]

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