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.
In a new blog post, IP Europe gave its favorite false narrative a new coat of paint by suggesting that the bedrock FRAND requirement of “license for all” equates to some kind of “license to kill.” It’s a clever turn-of-phrase designed to appeal to European Commission officials debating the final [...]
Tax reform is all the buzz in Washington. Last week, House Republicans introduced the 429-page Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which provides Americans with the most recent, and comprehensive look at what to expect in the tax reform effort. The plan proposes tax cuts and other changes that will affect [...]
For decades, America’s rural communities have led the country in entrepreneurship. However, rural entrepreneurship is on the decline, and the lack of something essential is jeopardizing entrepreneurial opportunity in rural America. Today, 23.4 million rural Americans live without access to high-speed internet, a resource on which modern businesses depend to [...]
ACT | The App Association (The App Association), a trade association championing small tech innovators, today (Wednesday) called on the European Commission to announce a prohibition on any form of use-based pricing of technology essential to the development of the internet of things (IoT). The Commission is expected to publish a [...]
When you think about it, the success of the smartphone is really the story of the success of mobile apps. When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in 2007, he didn’t want an App Store. He envisioned a world where apps were solely web-based, and iPhones were hermetically sealed and inaccessible [...]
