Member Spotlight: TelemetryDeck
Every day, app developers around the world are creating new apps to help you monitor your health, learn something new, communicate with your loved ones, or manage your connected appliances at home. As large parts of our lives shifted online, so has our personal data. To keep improving their apps over time, companies often use and analyse that data to learn how users interact with the app, and that’s great. What isn’t great is when some data analytics tools become [...]
Proliferation of Ad Piracy Means Platform Protections are More Important than Ever
The latest numbers for online ad fraud are in— 2020 was a great year for ad pirates. Ad fraud, or ad piracy, occurs when bad actors divert ad revenue intended for legitimate websites (or in some cases, the original content is paid and is not supposed to include ads) to pirated and illicit content. Over the past few years, we have pointed out that “free is not cheap enough” to prevent copyright theft, and ad piracy is a major reason [...]
404 Error: How Legislation Intended to Grow the App Economy Could End Up Hurting It— Part 2
Over the last several years, regulators, Congress, and most recently state legislatures, have been taking a hard look at “big tech” companies, the relationship they have with small businesses, like our members, and have raised concerns about competition in the digital market. We also have concerns. Real-life concerns that transcend political donations or complicated, misleading language found in legislation in statehouses across the United States. When we look at legislation like Rhode Island’s HB6055, we see through what seems to be [...]
App Makers Tour of Europe – France
Version française ici On 13 July 2021, ACT | The App Association continued its App Makers Tour of Europe. During our third stop in France, local app developers, policymakers, industry representatives, and regulators shared their views on the local app economy and the opportunities and challenges developers face today. Our panel also discussed the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and how it could affect app developers and the broader technology ecosystem. The webinar began with opening remarks and a warm welcome [...]
Tour d’Europe des App Makers – France
English version Le 13 juillet 2021, ACT | The App Association a poursuivi son Tour d’Europe des App Makers . Lors de notre troisième étape en France, des développeurs d'applications locaux, des décideurs politiques, des représentants de l'industrie et des régulateurs ont discuté de l'économie des applications en France et des opportunités et défis auxquels les développeurs sont confrontés aujourd'hui. Notre panel a également débattu de la loi sur les marchés numériques, le Digital Markets Act en anglais (DMA) et [...]
Celebrating Patent Quality Week with High Hopes for a Stronger Patent System
There is reason for optimism this Patent Quality Week as intellectual property (IP) leaders in Congress contemplate options to strengthen the mechanisms in place to weed out weak and overly broad patents. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), chairman of the Intellectual Property Subcommittee, recently reflected on these priorities on the Senate floor on World IP Day in a speech describing some of the attributes he wants to see in the next United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) director. In those [...]