The App Association is a global trade association for small and medium-sized technology companies. Our members are entrepreneurs, innovators, and independent developers within the global app ecosystem that engage with verticals across every industry. We work with and for our members to promote a policy environment that rewards and inspires innovation while providing resources that help them raise capital, create jobs, and continue to build incredible technology.
This year, ACT | The App Association turns the big 2-0. To commemorate two decades of service and advocacy, we take a walk down memory lane with the App Association staff who work tirelessly on the issues that impact and influence the developer community. These are the people responsible for [...]
By Adarsh Mahesh At this moment, there are more than half a million unfilled computing jobs across the United States. Though these jobs are scattered across all 50 states and pay salaries double the national average, the tech ecosystem simply does not have enough workers with computer science skills to [...]
By Marc Fischer, Founder and CEO, Dogtown Media For many, our nation’s tax reform was a bittersweet victory. While small businesses create 64 percent of our country’s private sector jobs, they often face the heaviest burdens in tax compliance. The tax reforms passed last year brought some unexpected benefits for [...]
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect this Friday, May 25, 2018. After years of deliberation and anticipation, the European Union’s foremost privacy protections will finally take hold and apply to all entities that handle the sensitive information of European Union (EU) data subjects. As evidenced by [...]
App developers, the business community, and privacy advocates alike have been achatter about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As the European Union’s newest privacy regulation, the GDPR is set to go into effect on May 25, 2018. Many businesses are curious about the impact this new regulation may have [...]
