Recently, ACT | The App Association’s Amplify Diverse Talent Working Group hosted Tech Desert: Addressing the Needs of Underserved Communities Through Technology, a webinar highlighting companies that are bringing technologies to underserved communities, the unique obstacles they’ve faced, and the roles legislators and industry leaders can play in empowering tech [...]
Adriana Holst is one of several summer interns joining us at ACT | The App Association to build, grow, and develop further opportunities as they relate to her computer science and musical theatre studies at Ohio University. As Adriana enters her senior year, and as a new graduating class of [...]
As Congress continues their antitrust legislation efforts by consulting CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world, America’s small businesses are being left out of the conversation and left in the lurch. We have had concerns from day one about these bills and the unintended consequences our small [...]
Today, ACT | The App Association/Morning Consult released polling indicating that Americans living in 10 states strongly support efforts to protect small app developers’ growth while maintaining a trusted digital marketplace with consistent security standards applied to both large and small businesses. Polling captured adults’ (18+) opinions on security standards, [...]
On March 25, 2022, the United States and European Commission announced that they had reached an agreement on what is called the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (the Framework), which would create new legal protections for European Union personal data when it enters the United States. The agreement is the culmination [...]