Developed: EU Tour Recap – Part 3
What do European startups want policymakers to focus on? We went on a five-week, nine-city “Developed: EU” tour to find out. From May to June 2025, ACT | The App Association hit the road on our Developed: EU tour, a multi-city trek across Europe to meet with members of the tech ecosystem, from startups and scaleups to investors to policymakers, to learn about their priorities and concerns when it comes to the health and growth of the app economy. With [...]
Developed: EU Tour Recap – Part 2
What do European startups want policymakers to focus on? We went on a five-week, nine-city “Developed: EU” tour to find out. From May to June 2025, ACT | The App Association hit the road on our Developed: EU tour, a multi-city trek across Europe to meet with members of the tech ecosystem, from startups and scaleups to investors to policymakers, to learn about their priorities and concerns when it comes to the health and growth of the app economy. [...]
The EU Data Act: Why SMEs and Startups Should Take Notice
Big changes are coming for any startup, scaleup, or small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) in the EU’s connected products (e.g. connected cars, medical and fitness devices), services (i.e. anything that would make a connected product operate in a specific way, such as an app to adjust the brightness of lights), or cloud markets (e.g. servers or cloud infrastructure). On 12 September 2025, the EU Data Act will begin to apply in full, reshaping how data is accessed, shared, and [...]
A Missed Opportunity as Administration Reveals Further Details of U.S. – EU Trade Deal
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 | The App Association. “We welcome the additional commitment from the EU to continue supporting a World Trade Organization (WTO) moratorium on customs duties on electronic commerce, and their restatement of [...]
The Gerrymandering Happening Below the Fold
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 in order to pursue other goals. The lawsuits at issue take aim at the day-to-day services and tools of curated online marketplaces (COMs) and social media platforms. For ACT | [...]
Developed: EU Tour Recap – Part 1
What do European startups want policymakers to focus on? We went on a five-week, nine-city “Developed: EU” tour to find out. From May to June 2025, ACT | The App Association hit the road on a multi-city trek across Europe to meet with members of the tech ecosystem, from startups and scaleups to investors to policymakers. Our mission was to learn about their priorities and concerns when it comes to the health and growth of the app economy. A [...]