App Association member company AirStrip® just announced a $25 million round of financing for its mobile health services and groundbreaking AirStrip ONE® product. The company already enjoys the financial backing of industry leaders Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm, and HCA. This latest funding round comes as no surprise to those familiar with [...]
Runner Joke: Q – How do you know if someone has run a marathon? A – They tell you. It is end of August and I have marathon on the brain. On October 26th, I will, along with over 30,000 other runners, participate in the Marine Corps Marathon. And, like [...]
We’ve known for a while now that the app marketplace is a job creator – not just in the U.S., but also around the world. Last week, Apple announced it created or contributed 629,000 jobs across Europe, attributing over 500,000 of these to the app economy, as reported in ZDNet by [...]
One month from today I was supposed to board a plane, fly to Ukraine, and serve as an education volunteer through the Peace Corps for 27 months – but instead I’m at ACT. Plans change pretty quickly when your future host country turns into a hotbed of political dispute, and [...]
Our friend and ACT member Scott Stanfield raised concerns about the expansion of first-sale doctrine at a roundtable discussion hosted by the PTO last week in Berkeley, CA. Scott is the CEO of the California-based company, Vertigo Software, which employs more than 60 people. Foremost among the issues he raised is the unsustainability of an app [...]