STEM Education: Providing Opportunity and Changing Lives
ACT's membership has over 5,000 small business app companies who are active advocates expressing concerns felt within the industry. They regularly come to Washington to meet with lawmakers and regulators to convey these views. Although the issues change over time there is one concern that remains constant. The lack of well-trained software developers. Traveling to developer conferences around the country, the refrain we always hear is "we're hiring." There is a shortage of developers in America and companies are having [...]
FTC Taxes Apps: Privacy Changes Result in Quarter Billion Dollar Cost to Education App Developers
"The FTC believes the world would be a better place if we spent $250 million more on lawyers and $250 million less on developing educational apps and content for kids.”
FTC Taxes Apps: Privacy Changes Result in Quarter Billion Dollar Cost to Education App Developers
"The FTC believes the world would be a better place if we spent $250 million more on lawyers and $250 million less on developing educational apps and content for kids."
ACT Reply Comments on COPPA Rule Review 2012
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Incent to Invent
Ivan Pavlov wrote “It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread.” It has long been the case that people and, by extension, the corporations they run, operate on a system of incentives. No place has more experimentation with this concept been done in modern times than with the tax code. There’s a reason that it occupies volumes. In most instances, it is a set of incentives for behavior whether to [...]
ACT Launches App Trust Project
The Association for Competitive Technology is launching a new developer resource, the ACT App Trust Project. This is a community-led effort to create new solutions and best practices for building trust with your customers. We’re looking for developers, designers, UI experts, and even some policy and legal types to join the effort. Our goal is to design transparency and notification systems that are meaningful to your customers, not just to lawyers. We have been working for months with a group [...]