The app economy is global, and so are we! Throughout June, ACT | The App Association’s membership team will be back on the road hosting events worldwide. Learn more about where we’re going and what we’re doing below, and make sure to RSVP or reach out if we’re coming [...]
A couple of weeks ago, more than 50 ACT | The App Association members traveled to DC to share their perspectives on the top policy issues on their minds today. At the top of that list? The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) recent actions to eliminate mergers and acquisitions (M&A). More [...]
Each year, members of ACT | The App Association fly into DC for four days of policy education and advocacy on Capitol Hill. This year, AppCon was particularly special; it's been five years since our last full-scale and in-person conference, and the biggest one yet! With more than 50 members from 41 member [...]
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and policymakers alike often find the standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing landscape to be a difficult, dense, and confusing topic to understand. However, as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems continue to develop a new set of standards to build on, it [...]
In the absence of a national privacy law, disparate and misaligned approaches to protecting individuals' privacy continue to evolve and conflict with the most effective approaches to privacy and security that developers build. The latest privacy bill to gain momentum, the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), includes several [...]