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End of the Road
Read more: End of the RoadAfter a decade of advocating for the developer community, the time has come to wind down the Developers Alliance. For some of you, this may come as a shock. As…
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Apps Alliance: FTC Consent Decree Doesn’t Go Far Enough – Calls on Congress to Pass Meaningful Legislation
Read more: Apps Alliance: FTC Consent Decree Doesn’t Go Far Enough – Calls on Congress to Pass Meaningful LegislationWASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a final order approving agreed upon actions by MPHJ Technology Investments, LLC, and its law firm. The FTC alleged that MPHJ used deceptive communications when threatening thousands of small businesses, innovative companies and individuals with frivolous allegations they were infringing MPHJ’s patent.
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140 Startup Investors Call on Congress to Pass Broad Patent Reform
Read more: 140 Startup Investors Call on Congress to Pass Broad Patent ReformWashington, D.C. – One hundred forty of America’s leading startup investors sent a letter today urging Congress to enact broad patent reform legislation. The letter – signed by early investors in companies like Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, Kickstarter, Redfin, and Instagram, and organized by Engine Advocacy and the App Developers Alliance – calls on Congress to support reforms that…
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Do Kids Want to Code? Let’s Ask.
Read more: Do Kids Want to Code? Let’s Ask.It’s easy to highlight all of the positive reasons why we should be teaching kids to code, but what about the kids themselves? Do they want to code? Do they feel like digital literacy is a relevant, worthwhile endeavor?
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Apps Alliance Launches Troll Fighter Campaign for Patent Reform to Give Small Businesses and Innovators a Voice in DC
Read more: Apps Alliance Launches Troll Fighter Campaign for Patent Reform to Give Small Businesses and Innovators a Voice in DCMarch 16, 2015 – The Application Developers Alliance has launched a multimedia and campaign in Washington D.C. and targeted states calling for comprehensive patent reform. The Troll Fighter campaign includes digital, print and Pandora advertising that features small business owners, innovators and app developers that have been targeted by patent trolls.
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Turtles in Space: Beyond learning to code
Read more: Turtles in Space: Beyond learning to codeThis guest blog post is part of the Application Developers Alliance “Developing for Good: Kids Who Code” campaign. In this article, I outline a goal to create an Open (in Creative commons) modelling system for education that ties Systems modelling to code within a specific context (in this case, space exploration).
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Famigo on the Value of Coding Education
Read more: Famigo on the Value of Coding Education“Mobile web is our Wild West; it’s our frontier,” says Matt McDonnell of Famigo. Today’s children are experiencing a very different Internet than the children of the last few decades. With the ongoing evolution of the Internet, having working knowledge of how devices function may help children be prepared for a more connected world.
