Step-Kick, Kick-Leap, Kick…Code?
Adriana Holst is one of several summer interns joining us at ACT | The App Association to build, grow, and develop further opportunities as they relate to her computer science and musical theatre studies at Ohio University. As Adriana enters her senior year, and as a new graduating class of students are preparing to enter the workforce, we’re highlighting how prepared (or unprepared) the future innovators of the app economy feel about this upcoming transition, how their academic careers could [...]
Privacy Lawlessness Antitrust measures pose a threat to America’s small businesses—but a privacy bill would help
As Congress continues their antitrust legislation efforts by consulting CEOs of some of the largest corporations in the world, America’s small businesses are being left out of the conversation and left in the lurch. We have had concerns from day one about these bills and the unintended consequences our small business members would face. Several aspects of the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710/H.R. 7030) and American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992/H.R. 3816) cause concern for the small [...]
Survey Says: IP is Essential to Innovation
ACT | The App Association members compete and innovate across the consumer and enterprise landscapes and invest heavily in their intellectual property (IP). Not only because it is the lifeblood of their products and our industry at large, but also because it represents their innovative drive, hard work, and dedication to progress within the app economy. Small businesses’ IP—copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets—sets them apart from the competition, highlighting their identity and ingenuity. Recently, we issued a survey to [...]
The Future of Small Business Growth Depends on Trusted and Secure Marketplaces
Today, ACT | The App Association/Morning Consult released polling indicating that Americans living in 10 states strongly support efforts to protect small app developers’ growth while maintaining a trusted digital marketplace with consistent security standards applied to both large and small businesses. Polling captured adults’ (18+) opinions on security standards, consumer trust, resources needed to continue small business growth, and whether or not Congress should continue consideration for the Open App Markets Act (S. 2710) and the American Innovation and [...]
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Facebook Says the Quiet Part Loud: Competition Policy Should Help Them Surveil Users
As Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) continues to seek supporters for her so-called platform antitrust bills, including by offering largely symbolic “revisions” (we remain unconvinced), some unlikely (though not entirely unexpected) allies are emerging from the woodwork. Though Senator Klobuchar often claims that the purpose of the bills is to knock big tech platforms down a peg, Facebook’s recent filing to the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA) in response to the agency’s Request for Comments on Competition in the Mobile App [...]