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Event Recap: SXSW 2025
"We regret to inform you that a vendor was hacked, exposing our customers' personal information." It’s a message that has become all too [...]
Digital Tax Follies: The Importance and Understanding of Sound Tax Policies in Europe
ACT | The App Association’s small business members are the leading edge of innovation in the ever-evolving digital economy. Governments are racing to [...]
EU Lawmakers’ DMA Petition to DoJ and Commerce Deserves Quick Dismissal
We recently highlighted a bright spot in the otherwise dismal outlook for global digital marketplace regulation. Specifically, as governments around the world consider [...]
Why Did Brazil’s CADE Exclude Small Business Developers from its Digital Platform Regulation Hearing?
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 [...]
The EU’s DMA at One Year: Are SMEs Better Off?
One year into the implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union’s ambitious effort to regulate competition in the digital economy, [...]
A Scroll Down Memory Lane: February 2025’s Member Mondays
ACT | The App Association’s members are at the forefront of innovation, leveraging technology to create meaningful solutions that drive positive change. Each [...]
What’s Next for Digital Trade?
For small firms in the app economy, business has always been global. Software developers, brand strategists, app makers, and other tech-focused small businesses [...]
An App Association Recap as Economics Has its Day in Court in FTC’s Antitrust Case Against Amazon
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 [...]