ACT today published a whitepaper identifying some of the risks surrounding domain name collisions arising from the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs). The report — The Impact of Domain Name Collisions: A Business Perspective — follows up on the association's work organizing industry efforts to highlight concerns [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), the world’s leading association for mobile app developers, will today release a new study showing that the app economy, including apps running on smartphones and tablets, has contributed nearly 800,000 jobs to the EU economy in just five years. The app economy has exploded [...]
Executive Director of the Association for Competitive Technology Morgan Reed issued a statement today in support of steps proposed by the Register of Copyrights to initiate a review of intellectual property law. ACT applauds the Register of Copyrights for recognizing the need to review intellectual property law in the evolving [...]
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced updates to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) that addresses many of the concerns of industry. In response to the new rules, Association for Competitive Technology Executive Director Morgan Reed made the following statement: Final Rule Makes Important Changes for Large Companies [...]
Today, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission released a new report entitled “Mobile Apps for Kids” that highlighted a persistent privacy transparency gap on mobile apps for children. During their press conference, the FTC highlighted the Association for Competitive Technology's education and transparency efforts as "promising." In response to the report, [...]