The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), the world’s leading association for mobile app developers, will today release a new study showing that the app economy, including apps running on smartphones and tablets, has contributed nearly 800,000 jobs to the EU economy in just five years. The app economy has exploded [...]
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that addresses many of the concerns of industry. In response to the new rules, Association for Competitive Technology Executive Director Morgan Reed made the following statement: Final Rule Makes Important Changes for Large Companies [...]
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a new report entitled “Mobile Apps for Kids” that highlighted a persistent privacy transparency gap on mobile apps for children. During their press conference, the FTC highlighted the Association for Competitive Technology's education and transparency efforts as "promising." In response to the report, [...]
The computing industry is going through a mobile revolution as svelte, powerful, and power-sipping devices are freeing users from their power cords. On the heels of the smartphone, notebook, and netbook booms, tablet computers are changing the dynamics of the computing industry. And now we have ultrabooks emerging, combining some [...]
The European Commission has today adopted the Communication Towards Interoperability for European Public Services. In response, Association for Competitive Technology president offered his support for the measure: “The notion of “open specifications” included in the European Interoperability Framework allows for open source and proprietary software to compete on a level [...]