Letter to House Judiciary Chairman and Ranking Member from ACT | The App Association members on CBM provision of Innovation Act
Fifteen ACT | The App Association members explain their strong concerns with the covered business method (CBM) provisions of the Innovation Act. [pl_button type="info" link="http://actonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Letter-Re-Extension-of-CBM-Patent-Post-Grant-Review-2-copy.pdf" target="blank"]Read Full Letter[/pl_button]
ACT Reply on Name Collision Risks
ACT reply to comments on mitigation of name collision risks [pl_button type="info" link="http://actonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ACT-ICANN-Name-Collision-Reply-Final-copy.pdf" target="blank"]Read Full Reply[/pl_button]
New Research Highlights 800,000 App Economy Jobs Across Europe
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 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 Vision Mobile – found [...]
European App Economy Report 2013
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 [...]
Comments to ICANN: Mitigating Domain Name Collision Risks
ACT comments to ICANN regarding ways to mitigate name collision risks [pl_button type="info" link="http://actonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ACT-ICANN-Name-Collision-Comment-Final-copy.pdf" target="blank"]Read Full Comments[/pl_button]
App Store after Five Years
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 [...]