by Kominyetska ACT was active on both coasts this week: Member Outreach Director Sara Kloek and ACT President Jonathan Zuck met up with members at the Microsoft TechEd Conference in Orlando Florida, while I was attending Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) and joined many of our app-building members in celebrating creativity [...]
TRUSTe has announced a unified, open solution for mobile advertising privacy management. App developers can use the solution to address the evolving privacy compliance standards, growing consumer privacy concerns, and complicated technology requirements unique to the mobile ecosystem. The project is currently in beta and is expected to go live [...]
ACT's Jonathan Godfrey is moderating a panel today at the Austin tech convention, South by Southwest. Selected from thousands of applicants, the panel "Can Washington Make Your App Illegal" addresses widespread concern about potential future regulation of the app industry. Godfrey is joined by Mike Sax of Asigo and Ahmed [...]
Apple released figures yesterday touting its impact on the job market. Its study revealed that the tech giant has created 514,000 jobs, over 210,000 of those related directly to Apple's mobile products. Curiously, Apple chose a late Friday for this release – a time less likely to receive attention outside [...]
Today I will be meeting with mobile app developers as the featured guest at today's Silicon Valley Apps for Kids meet up. Bill Martin, of SmarTots, will lead a discussion with me about the critical questions of COPPA and Analytics for Kid's Apps. COPPA is the Children's Online Privacy Protection [...]