Almost heaven, West Virginia; Blue Ridge Mountains, and a computer science requirement before graduating high school?! When the average non-West Virginian thinks about the state there is a 99 percent chance that John Denver’s “Country Roads” comes to mind, but there is so much more to my home state than [...]
Part of a series on the effects of some of the biggest U.S. tech companies on the app economy. The social media website Reddit has styled itself as the “front page of the internet” for years. However, that’s not technically or practically true; in fact, for 68.7% of you, the [...]
“Privacy” has a strong chance as a nominee for 2019 Word of the Year. Thanks to our increased output of consumer data and a number of high-profile data breaches, virtually every industry takes data privacy into consideration in their business strategy. Chief privacy officers are making their way into corporate [...]
Recently, incoming European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the full line-up for her new team. Over the last five years, the era of limited government interference for big tech in Europe came to an end as competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager began to implement an increasingly cautious and punitive [...]
On October 10, 2019, ACT | The App Association visited Monday Night Brewing Garage, an Atlanta, Georgia based brewery, to engage with developers about the local tech community, Georgia’s app economy, and general trends and opportunities for tech businesses. App Association member Southern DNA’s Chris Adams spoke at the event. [...]