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Bills, Bills, Bills: What Developers Need to Know About the Legislative Package from the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee

Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law introduced draft legislation aimed at regulating “Big Tech” after a year-plus investigation of competition in digital markets. The legislative package largely stems from information gathered through witness testimony, documents, and interviews captured in the more than 500 page [...]

By Graham Dufault|2021-06-17T11:08:55-04:00June 15th, 2021|App Economy, Blog, Competition, Tech Regulation|

App Makers Tour of Europe – Romania

On 25 May 2021, ACT | The App Association kicked off the App Makers Tour of Europe with its first stop in Romania. During this webinar, we engaged with local app developers, policymakers, and academics. Our speakers discussed the Romanian tech ecosystem and considered the impacts of impending tech regulation [...]

By Anna Bosch|2021-10-19T07:29:29-04:00June 10th, 2021|App Economy, Blog, European Union, Events, Tech Regulation|

Member Spotlight: WodPod

After months of quarantining at home, WodPod wants to help users get active! WodPod is a fitness platform that lets users choose from workout programs designed by fitness trainers around the world. Through the WodPod app, workout programs that were independently developed are available to a global audience. “Think of [...]

By Niels van Velde|2021-06-24T10:14:33-04:00June 10th, 2021|App Economy, Blog, COVID-19, EU Member Spotlight, European Union, Member Spotlight|

A Check-Up on mHealth Policies in the EU

During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of digital solutions in providing lifesaving care to Europeans increased significantly. mHealth technologies mean digital health tools like wireless health products, mobile medical devices, software as a medical device, mobile medical apps, cloud-based portals and dashboards, and others. These tools have the demonstrated [...]

By Anna Bosch|2021-06-09T12:05:13-04:00June 9th, 2021|Blog, EU Member Spotlight, European Union, Tech Regulation|

Antitrust and You, Part 2: Epic v. Apple in an Antitrust Law Context

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 [...]

By Graham Dufault|2021-06-08T11:27:55-04:00June 8th, 2021|Blog, Competition, Courts, Policy, Tech Regulation|