Creating Jobs and Driving Growth The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), the world’s leading association for mobile app developers, released 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 since the first app stores were launched in 2008. In addition to job creation, the study – sponsored by ACT, and conducted by Plum Consulting and [...]

As Apple marks the fifth anniversary of the App Store, we decided to revisit our 2012 study, Apps Across America, a report originally requested by the House Energy and Commerce Committee for its hearing “Where the Jobs Are: There’s an App for That.” Twelve months later, we return to the same topic, but narrow our focus to the most successful apps to determine which companies are having the biggest impact on the mobile economy. We reviewed the top ten iPhone [...]