On Thursday, March 21, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced its lawsuit against Apple, challenging several aspects of Apple’s ecosystem. ACT | The App Association President Morgan Reed responded: “This lawsuit would do nothing to help small app companies and would weaken the distribution options they rely upon. “Managed app [...]
Last week Apple announced changes to the terms of service for developers and others seeking to be part of the iPhone ecosystem. These changes, implemented for European Union (EU) citizens as part of the compliance requirements under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), created a brief moment of hand wringing [...]
As artificial intelligence (AI) evolves at an unprecedented pace, policymakers are actively engaging with tech industry giants to understand and regulate AI. Over the past couple of weeks, bipartisan leaders in Congress privately hosted a dinner with OpenAI’s CEO, who subsequently made waves in congressional testimony the following day, calling [...]
May 1, 2022 – Today, ACT | The App Association released a statement from president Morgan Reed celebrating Small Business Week: “This week is National Small Business Week — an opportunity to celebrate our small business members and the impact they have on their local communities and the app economy at [...]
Recently, the Small Business Administration released data on the types of businesses that applied for one of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, established through the CARES Act at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). As an association for small and medium businesses in the app economy, [...]