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.
The internet today sits at a crossroads. Data breaches and hacks occur everyday, stealing massive amounts of private information from American citizens. Engineers and researchers play whack-a-mole around the clock against exploits and malicious parties. For engineers, it is largely a role of damage control, as they lack the resources [...]
The number seven has long held considerable significance. The Babylonians gave us the seven-day week based on the (then known) seven heavenly bodies. There are seven notes on the musical scale. Seven colors in the color spectrum. Seven-minute workouts. And Seven and Seven makes for a tasty beverage. But today we celebrate [...]
We have aggressively pressed the administration to steer clear of measures to weaken data encryption standards.The success of our member companies relies on the trust of users. If the government forcibly weakens our ability to protect data, it threatens the trusted relationship with consumers we have worked so hard to earn. [...]
Yesterday, the White House honored ACT | The App Association member Amy Gleason as a Precision Medicine “Champion of Change.” Amy is the Chief Operating Officer of Tampa-based CareSync, a mobile platform that organizes a patient’s health records across all health systems into a single, comprehensive Health Timeline™. The company’s [...]
The wearables we’ve been testing for We Wear It have been very diverse: they measure lots of different things about their wearer, and often do it in very different ways. The one thing they all do, though, is count steps. Step-counting has been around for a while and, like high-waisted shorts [...]
