For our State Legislator Spotlight series, ACT | The App Association highlights state legislators who promote technological innovation, support small businesses, invest government resources in the digital economy, and narrow the digital divide. These lawmakers envision a role for state governments to support and enable App Association members to revolutionize [...]
The environmental impacts of the unsustainable consumption of goods and growing amounts of waste are becoming the subject of more and more debate in the EU. In this context, the European Commission wants to improve the sustainability of products that use large quantities of materials, energy, and other resources and [...]
ACT | The App Association members strongly support federal policies that encourage the swift deployment of 5G networks. They are the leading edge of the software-driven transformation of core industries like public safety, digital health, and education. The transition to 5G will enable them to reach more patients, teleworkers, students, [...]
As the clock winds down on both chambers heading into August, antitrust advocates are throwing late-round haymakers to blacken Beltway eyes, obscuring a clearer picture of the antitrust bills’ (S. 2992’s and S. 2710’s) harmful results. The bills’ backers have achieved some success, as some of this beat’s most respected [...]
Debate over the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA, S. 2992/H.R. 3816) and the Open App Markets Act (OAMA, S. 2710/H.R. 7030), two antitrust bills pending in Congress, is heating up. We oppose the bills in part because of the effect they’d have on consumer trust in the app [...]