DOJ: Antitrust is in the Eye of The Beholder
United States Attorney General William Barr made headlines a few weeks ago when he announced the Department of Justice (DOJ) was actively investigating “Big Tech” over antitrust concerns. Pairing together [...]
Rural Innovators Play a Key Role in the App Economy—Television White Spaces Can Help Them Do More
As we approach the 2020 election, Democrats and Republicans alike are increasingly interested in a key voting demographic: rural Americans. This isn’t without cause—this demographic has heavily swung red in [...]
There’s a Platform for That
ACT | The App Association testifies before House Judiciary Committee on “Online Platforms and Market Power, Part 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship” On Tuesday, July 16, 2019, ACT | The App [...]
Consumer Privacy Legislation and the Age of Uncertainty
I’ve been a member of ACT | The App Association since it was founded in 1998, and for the most part, I was a typical member: a software developer at [...]
Summer ’19 – the Summer of Interoperability
The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) spends our year addressing a wide range of digital health issues, but one of the most pressing issues in 2019 is health data interoperability. The [...]
Creating an App? There’s Copyright for That.
By Debbie Rose and Madeline Zick Let’s begin with a riddle. What do mobile apps, poetry, photographs, movies, books, and sculptures have in common? Answer: they are all eligible for [...]