UK Employment Law for Startups: A business strengthening member resource
Whether it’s the challenge of completing that first hire or the complexity that comes with a growing team, employment law is a key consideration for startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The latest ACT | The App Association member resource, in partnership with IEM Consultancy, covers everyday employment essentials that businesses need to understand in early stages of growth. Employment law experts, discuss what employment means, how to define when someone is really an employee, employee rights, and the [...]
Fall ’22 Member Priorities, Pt. 3: Telehealth and Digital Health Coverage
Our next installment of fall ’22 ACT | The App Association member company priorities spotlights an issue important to all Americans—continued access to telehealth and digital health coverage. In 2022, more than 81 million Americans are estimated to have accessed care through telehealth and digital health services. Here is what our members are asking of Congress: We urge the Senate to pass the House’s additional two-year extension on telehealth and digital health coverage. We also encourage both chambers to extend the current [...]
What is Web3?
Before the New Orleans Entrepreneur Week evangelized me on the metaverse and Web3 (learn about NOEW here), I’d hear terms like “metaverse” and “mixed reality.” Two things happened: one, I would roll my eyes, and two, depending on how much sleep I did or didn’t have, my mind either went everywhere, imagining all of the things the metaverse could accomplish, what it did or didn’t look like, the gaps it could fill . . . or my mind would go [...]
App Makers Face a Hotline to Hardship
The effort to impose European-style regulation on app stores is seeing a late surge as sponsors are fast-tracking (or hotlining) the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710, OAMA) through the Senate. Under the Senate’s hotline procedure, legislation is circulated by email to every Senate office. If no office objects within the given timeframe, the bill passes the Senate by unanimous consent. In part because OAMA didn’t traverse the full legislative process, which would have involved a legislative hearing, Senate offices [...]
It’s Not Easy Being Green… Or Is It?
Here at ACT | The App Association, we know that small businesses drive innovation and sit at the forefront of new and up-and-coming technologies. As we see technology companies playing a role in efforts to combat climate change, we’re once again seeing the companies that make up our community leading the charge. The small business impact on the green and digital transition extend beyond energy and conservation transition initiatives. In addition to their contributions to green technology, our small business [...]
Developers Keep You Safe
Privacy and security are crucial components of a safer internet and a successful app economy. Our members use privacy by design to keep our information protected as our world lives, works, and plays through apps. Even the smallest app companies make a big impact, leading their communities and working tirelessly to drive innovation in today’s app economy. However, small businesses’ ability to lead depends substantially on whether their clients and customers can rely on them to protect the privacy and [...]