Here at ACT | App Association, we care about the app economy – because our members drive it and the larger ecosystem of developer services, funding, and workforce development it created. Alongside the rise of the smartphone and other smart technologies that rely on apps, the app ecosystem grew exponentially [...]
As the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law (ACAL) renews its antitrust work in the opening months of the 117th Congress, the first hearing out of the gate helps define some of the issues important to ACT | The App Association member companies. The hearing, titled [...]
In February and March 2021, ACT | The App Association and Competition Policy International (CPI) are collaborating on a series of webinars discussing how antitrust regulation works in the digital world. During the first event of the series, five experts explored the key issues surrounding the European Commission’s Digital Markets [...]
After several rounds of public consultations, the European Commission finally released its long-awaited proposal for the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 16 December 2020 (see our statement here). Now that we have had some time to read and digest the proposed regulation, we are ready to break it down for [...]
We are experiencing an unmistakable acceleration in the long creeping global trend toward internet balkanization. Nations around the world are increasingly skeptical of friends and foes alike, from the European Union rethinking international data transfers to data localization mandates in India. Of course, no one tracing President Trump’s rhetoric was [...]