Digital Markets, Competition & Antitrust
Working to protect the rights of companies and individuals who invest and innovate in the digital world.
Shaping Policy That Promotes Competition
It’s imperative policymakers understand digital competition is unlike the hard-goods market. The ideas of finite distribution and product scarcity are almost entirely irrelevant. Instead, we promote smart policy that examines consumer benefits when measuring how well the market is functioning. If competitive and antitrust regulation is too stringent, we risk crippling innovation that pushes society forward.
The Latest on Digital Markets
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The Digital Rust Belt
Read more: The Digital Rust BeltThe Digital Economy creates jobs, wealth, and drives innovation. Powerful, well-intentioned outsiders are fighting to control its future. Their ignorance of how it works could doom its promise.
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Android Chronicles: From Walled Gardens to Gardens Run Amok
Read more: Android Chronicles: From Walled Gardens to Gardens Run AmokYou may have seen the announcement from Google on the new Android rules (and our formal press release). With the EU government-driven deadline looming, the plan for the Android ecosystem has been released. It’s less than ideal for developers, but there’s at least some hope.
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Developers are Battling for User Privacy. All They Need Is Some Help
Read more: Developers are Battling for User Privacy. All They Need Is Some HelpI’m getting tired of waking up to headlines of another major data security gap. The whole internet economy is getting tired of it. Big platforms, ISPs, regulators, politicians; everyone agrees that something’s broken and that we need to fix it.
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Announcing the Developers Trust Alliance
Read more: Announcing the Developers Trust AllianceThe world of data is evolving; from how it’s collected, used, managed, and stored to the user-developer relationship. There’s a gap between what consumers think is happening with their data, or what they read in the news when there’s a breach or hack, and what measures developers are actually taking to ensure security, transparency, and the responsible…
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Infographic on developers survey on Platform-to-Business relationships
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Are Users Control Freaks, or Are Developers Just Hard to Trust?
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The End of the App Economy Golden Age
Read more: The End of the App Economy Golden AgeThe Developers Alliance is disappointed at the European Commission’s decision in its Android investigation. Today’s decision will inevitably lead to changes to Android’s free, open source model which, in time, will harm the Android ecosystem, rather than help it grow.
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Consumers Download Apps They Can Trust
Read more: Consumers Download Apps They Can TrustWe’ve all heard of the Good Housekeeping seal. What if there was a seal for trusted developers; a mark to help consumers spot those apps and websites that follow sound data management and privacy practices? That’s the thinking behind a new project from the Developers Alliance.
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Position on the European Commission’s proposal for Regulation on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services
Read more: Position on the European Commission’s proposal for Regulation on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation servicesThe Developers Alliance represents software developers and the companies invested in their success.The Alliance’s members include businesses of all sizes that are leaders in consumer, enterprise,industrial, and emerging software development,…
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EU Parliament Research Shows a Growing App Economy
Read more: EU Parliament Research Shows a Growing App Economy2018 marks the ten year anniversary of the app ecosystem. In 2008 both Apple’s App Store and Google Play were launched, radically changing the way consumers interface with their devices.Since then, the app economy has grown significantly and at a very fast pace, as shown by the latest report on the state of play in…
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