ACT's 2025 Holiday Gift Guide The holiday season is sneaking up fast. Almost as fast as those Black Friday promo emails piling up in your inbox. With the holiday shopping season buzz building, we pulled together a curated list of gifts for every kind of giver, from last-minute shoppers sending [...]
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 [...]
While the public conversation around H-1B visas often focuses on larger players in tech, startups and small tech companies rely on the program, too. Data from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP) shows that more than half of new H-1B approvals go to employers that file 20 or [...]
Across the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, member economies’ competition authorities are taking a fresh look at the role of digital platforms and curated online marketplaces (COMs) in fostering healthy, innovative ecosystems. These digital platforms and the emerging technologies they enable are indispensable to startups, scaleups, and small and [...]
At this year’s RE+ conference in Las Vegas, ACT | The App Association highlighted a challenge that solar technology innovators are only now beginning to grapple with: abusive licensing practices tied to standard-essential patents (SEPs). For years, small app developers and device makers in the communications sector have faced aggressive [...]