For those of us following the Epic v. Apple case, it was sometimes difficult to follow or immediately grasp the relevance of the meandering lines of questioning that covered a wide range of themes. Intermingled with all of the evidence that found its way into the record via testimony and [...]
Regular readers of this blog and listeners of ACT | The App Association’s podcast, Tech Swamp, are familiar with the DC rumblings around antitrust felt over the last Congress. Well, those rumblings are now reaching the magnitude of a minor earthquake; if the tremors before were only detectable on a [...]
For years now, ACT | The App Association has urged Congress to adopt a set of requirements that establishes net neutrality principles in statute. The debate came back to a head in 2017 as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) undid its classification of internet services as Title II, thus removing [...]
As the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law (ACAL) renews its antitrust work in the opening months of the 117th Congress, the first hearing out of the gate helps define some of the issues important to ACT | The App Association member companies. The hearing, titled [...]
The 2020 elections were historic in a number of ways, including drawing in the highest proportion of voting-eligible Americans (65 percent!) to participate in the last 100 years. With the Biden-Harris ticket apparently winning the presidency, the rest of the election was mixed for Democrats and Republicans. In the Senate, [...]