Digital Markets, Competition & Antitrust
Working to protect the rights of companies and individuals who invest and innovate in the digital world.
Shaping Policy That Promotes Competition
It’s imperative policymakers understand digital competition is unlike the hard-goods market. The ideas of finite distribution and product scarcity are almost entirely irrelevant. Instead, we promote smart policy that examines consumer benefits when measuring how well the market is functioning. If competitive and antitrust regulation is too stringent, we risk crippling innovation that pushes society forward.
The Latest on Digital Markets
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Developers Alliance Statement On President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy
Read more: Developers Alliance Statement On President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American EconomyWhile we believe many of these sweeping reforms positively impact developers, we encourage the Administration to not act in haste with regards to major policy changes as increased regulation can unintentionally, negatively impact a rapidly growing ecosystem.
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AG^38 v. Google^5
Read more: AG^38 v. Google^5Lawyers, economists, and software. Oh my.
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Everyone Is Talking Infrastructure & Competition, No Agreement On What To Do Or How
Read more: Everyone Is Talking Infrastructure & Competition, No Agreement On What To Do Or HowThe June 2021 Developers Alliance US Policy Update.
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Digital Markets Act – An Aperçu And Suggested Amendments
Read more: Digital Markets Act – An Aperçu And Suggested AmendmentsLate to the game, long after the internet had already taken off, the EU decided to join the technological race by… regulating.
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Rhode Island Senate Bill No. 770 Will Harm Developers
Read more: Rhode Island Senate Bill No. 770 Will Harm DevelopersOn behalf of the Developers Alliance, I write to offer our views on how SB 770 wouldundermine a thriving ecosystem of application developers and technology services that hashelped the United…
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Developers Alliance Joins Coalition Expressing Concern Over Draft EU-UK Adequacy Negative Vote
Read more: Developers Alliance Joins Coalition Expressing Concern Over Draft EU-UK Adequacy Negative VoteThe leading software developer advocate joins a global industry coalition expressing concern regarding the looming EU-UK data flow interruption.
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Developers Alliance’s Position Paper On The Digital Markets Act (DMA)
Read more: Developers Alliance’s Position Paper On The Digital Markets Act (DMA)We welcome a harmonized approach, which should be strengthened by anappropriate mechanism of cooperation with the national authorities, in particularnational competition authorities (sparsely addressed by art. 32 – The Digital…
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Louisiana House Bill No. 518 Will Harm Developers
Read more: Louisiana House Bill No. 518 Will Harm DevelopersOn behalf of the Developers Alliance, I write to offer our views on how HB 518 wouldundermine a thriving ecosystem of application developers and technology services that hashelped the United…
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Response To The Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Hearing on “Antitrust Applied: Examining Competition in App Stores”
Read more: Response To The Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights Hearing on “Antitrust Applied: Examining Competition in App Stores”We write to express the views of software developers with regards to the hearing examiningcompetition in app stores. The Developers Alliance represents over 70,000 developers from 50states and many countries…
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Australia: 14 Hours Into The Future
Read more: Australia: 14 Hours Into The FutureThe Developers Alliance heads to Canberra.
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