Event Recap: GAEC: European Union
This March, members of ACT | The App Association travelled to Brussels for the first-ever Global App Economy Conference: European Union, and it couldn’t have come at a more pivotal moment. Sixteen of our EU small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) members from 12 countries met face-to-face with policymakers at the European Parliament and European Commission to share their experiences, challenges, and solutions. Against a backdrop of sweeping regulatory change, from the AI Act to Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement, [...]
Always Be Filing: ACT | The App Association Filing Activity for March 2025
Throughout the year, our policy team submits filings with government bodies worldwide to advocate for a regulatory environment that inspires and rewards innovation. From issues around regulating artificial intelligence to digital trade, our team is ACTive on a wide range of topics that could have a positive or negative impact on our small business members driving the app economy. Below is a roundup of our filings from around the globe this past month. Title: Comments of ACT | The App [...]
What’s the FTC’s Tech Antitrust Vision?
Observing all of the policy ordnance leaping from the previous Administration’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC), one has a sense of its relentless ideological certainty. And yet, it is difficult to identify from it a unified or tangible FTC vision for the ideal state of competition in digital markets. What should operators of curated online marketplaces (COMs) and other digital market competitors be doing that would be more pro-competitive and better for consumers? Over the past four years, the FTC [...]