Despite economic shifts in traditional industries like manufacturing and agriculture, the U.S. tech sector is booming, with jobs within the sector growing 3 percent every year. However, the American workforce is struggling to keep up. The United States has more than 500,000 unfilled computing jobs today, and unless we address [...]
In this edition of Member Monday, we look at how Bit Source is helping rural Americans trade coal for code. Located in the heart of Kentucky coal country, Bit Source is a software company founded in 2015 with the mission of fostering the workforce of the future. Co-founders Rusty Justice [...]
Today, ACT | The App Association released its fifth edition “State of the App Economy” report, which provides a snapshot of the trends driving and defining the dynamic app ecosystem. Mobile apps are a component of nearly every enterprise and consumer-facing industry and have impacted every sector of the American [...]
For this edition of Member Mondays, we’re highlighting the App Association’s Annual App Economy Conference happening later this month in D.C. Nearly every year of ACT | The App Association’s existence (circa the late ‘90s), we have hosted a group of our member companies in Washington, D.C., for our App [...]
Last Friday, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that temporarily blocks the entry of nonimmigrants from certain countries, including those who have temporary work or student visas. The stated purpose of the EO is to protect the nation from terrorists, a goal the White House seeks to accomplish by [...]