2025 Holiday Gift Guide
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 apps as presents to the most organized Santa-helpers plotting how to snag 2025’s hottest wearables. So, sit back, relax, and let our tech-inspired elves do the planning for you! App-Powered [...]
ACT | The App Association Supports Injunction Against Texas Law S.B. 2420
WASHINGTON, DC – ACT | The App Association (ACT) calls on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to issue a preliminary injunction halting the effective date of Texas S.B. 2420. “This deeply flawed law is based on a complete misunderstanding of how the app economy works and what parents say they need to keep their kids safe” said Morgan Reed, president of ACT | The App Association. “While well intentioned, the law as written places [...]
European Parliament Continues to Stand Up for Startups, Innovation, and Economic Growth
BRUSSELS – In response to today’s European Parliament Vote to challenge the Commission’s withdrawal of the proposed Standard-Essential Patent (SEP) Regulation: “With a clear majority, today’s vote shows that the European Parliament will not allow the Commission to walk away from much-needed standard-essential patent (SEP) reform without a fight,” said Mike Sax, founder and chairman of ACT | The App Association. “We support this step: Europe’s innovators, especially startups, scaleups, and SMEs, deserve a fair and transparent licensing landscape [...]
Support for the Referral of the Commission’s Withdrawal of the Standard Essential Patent Regulation to the Court of Justice of the European Union
Roberta Metsola President of the European Parliament Rue Wiertz 60 1047 Brussels Belgium Cc: Group Presidents and Members of the European Parliament Re: Support for the Referral of the Commission’s Withdrawal of the Standard Essential Patent Regulation to the Court of Justice of the European Union Dear President Metsola and Honourable Members of the European Parliament, The undersigned industry associations, representing a large cross-section of businesses in Europe, write to express our strong support for the JURI’s Committee decision [...]
Are We in an AI Bubble? What This Global Conversation Means for Startups
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 next? For independent app developers and small tech businesses, the bubble question misses the point. The real issue isn’t whether AI is overhyped. It’s whether the next phase of AI [...]
Letter to President Trump Re: Supporting American Innovation Through Standards and Standard-Essential Patent Policy Updates, both Domestically and Abroad
The Honorable Donald J. Trump President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest Washington, District of Columbia 20500 Re: Supporting American Innovation Through Standards and Standard-Essential Patent Policy Updates, both Domestically and Abroad Dear President Trump: We write to raise an issue that has become a growing problem for American companies seeking to innovate and build in the United States: an increasing share of the products that our members make, and the technology that they [...]