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Developer news for laws, regulations, and legal advice when creating mobile apps.

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What American companies can learn from Europe's new GDPR laws

Wednesday, June 13, 2018
By Christian Hargrave

An overview of what GDPR actually is and why US companies may begin to feel the pressure of similar regulations coming in the future....

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GDPR compliancy costs to exceed $1M for many

Thursday, May 24, 2018
By Richard Harris

A new GDPR Survey from Netsparker says it's going to cost businesses on average of $1M to come into compliancy. The survey also found that over 80 percent of respondents feel GDPR is going to be a positive thing....

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Perspective on the Microsoft v. US Supreme Court decision

Saturday, April 21, 2018
By Richard Harris

Geoffrey Sant talks about the recent United States Supreme Court decision and how it could have implications for international technology businesses....

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How to protect IP communications from telecom fraud

Thursday, December 28, 2017
By William King

Business can avoid falling victim to fraud by partnering with their IP communications carriers to better understand what telecom fraud looks like and how it can be prevented. ...

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A guide for protecting your app with a patent, trademark, or copyright

Tuesday, December 12, 2017
By Bryan Wheelock

How developers can protect their IP by following a plan, even before a line of code is written....

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How app developers can avoid costly IP mistakes

Tuesday, August 29, 2017
By Chinh Pham

Intellectual Property tips for mobile app developers to make sure that they don't make any crucial IP legal errors....

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ACT releases their State of the App Economy report

Friday, April 21, 2017
By Richard Harris

The App Association released its fifth edition “State of the App Economy” report....

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FFTF to expose Senators who are voting to allow ISP's sell your information

Tuesday, March 28, 2017
By Richard Harris

Fight for the Future to unleash billboards to expose Congress members who vote to gut Internet privacy rules....

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Advancing transformational and intelligent transportation technologies

Wednesday, February 15, 2017
By Christian Hargrave

The Intelligent Transportation Society of America's policy recommendations on how to advance the research and deployment of transformational and intelligent transportation technologies....

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Are your mobile game's Terms of Use enforceable

Friday, October 21, 2016
By Kimberly Culp

Most mobile games have terms of use, and for good reason. Terms of use can help a game company avoid distracting, time-consuming, and expensive litigation. Terms of use can be a game changer by helping a company avoid class action litigation. They ca...

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Unified Experience Design: Solving XD's blindside

Wednesday, October 12, 2016
By Demian Entrekin

Any of us would be hard pressed today to find a consumer-facing brand that doesn’t espouse to “design thinking,” putting the consumer experience at the center of product development. Most people are on board with the concept that quality user experie...

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Seven Keys to Obtaining Meaningful Patent Protection for Your Mobile App

Friday, September 16, 2016
By Mark Lezama

You’ve come up with a brilliant idea for a mobile app that will deliver disruptive technology. You’ve sketched out a rough storyboard of your user interface and user experience. You’ve outlined the algorithms and architecture y...

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Partnership Between Developers, Publishers and Platforms Is Key Says New Report

Monday, September 12, 2016
By Richard Harris

The Application Developers Alliance has released the result of a global survey of mobile app developers and publishers: Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem. The report shows a healthy mobile app market and an industry that is concerned about bein...

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Protecting Your Mobile App from Imposters

Thursday, March 3, 2016
By AJ Tibbetts

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but in an app context it will lead to lost users and ad imprints. This may seriously impact a bottom line and may even affect exit strategies such as prospects for acquisition. Worse, copying of mobile...

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Technology Executives Visit Congress to Discuss App Governance Issues

Tuesday, March 24, 2015
By Richard Harris

Fifty software executives from around the USA have traveled to Washington, DC to meet with policymakers and regulators about the top tech innovation priorities as part of ACT | The App Association’s 2015 Fly-In on March 22-24. The attending app...

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Security to Take Front Row Seat for Operators and Governments in 2015

Thursday, December 18, 2014
By Richard Harris

AdaptiveMobile has identified that network-level security is set to be on operator and government agendas for 2015. The company also identified trends that IoT and mobile malware will be defining new challenges of mobile security. Adap...

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Mobile App Privacy Demanded By Twenty Four Global Privacy Authorities

Wednesday, December 17, 2014
By Stuart Parkerson

National data protection had been the recent focal point by twenty four worldwide authorities on mobile app personal data processing. An open letter had been proposed from a group of data protection authoritiesThe Global Privacy Enforcement Netw...

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POODLE Attacks The SSL and TLS Problem

Thursday, December 11, 2014
By Stuart Parkerson

The POODLE attack has been repurposed to attack a new SSL/TLS problem, according to Qualys’ Director of Engineering Ivan Ristic. Ristic pointed out that vulnerability what has triggered the attack to some of the most popular websites worldw...

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The Application Developers Alliance Calls Out FTC Ruling As Falling Short

Thursday, December 11, 2014
By Richard Harris

The Application Developers Alliance forcefully criticized the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed agreement to end enforcement litigation against a notorious patent troll for being too weak and failing to deter future bad behavior by this troll or ot...

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Conversation Rate Optimization (CRO) and How It Contributes to Mobile App User Engagement

Sunday, September 21, 2014
By Sriram (a) Ram

What is CRO and why does a company needs to focus on it?Conversion is making your visitors perform an action which you want them to perform. Depending upon your purpose, the action can be anything, an online purchase, subscription, user enrollment, a...

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