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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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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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EU Copyright Directive Could Have Same Global Impact as GDPR
Read more: EU Copyright Directive Could Have Same Global Impact as GDPRImagine if Github, a web-based platform that allows users to upload and share code, had to filter through each content upload before it was posted to ensure some part of it wasn’t already claimed by copyright holders. Imagine having to do that on your platform for each piece of public user uploaded content. That future…
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Alliance Joins 55+ Industry Groups to Warn About ePrivacy Regulation
Read more: Alliance Joins 55+ Industry Groups to Warn About ePrivacy RegulationOn 31 May the Developers Alliance joined over 55 industry groups representing all sectors of the technology industry to caution against the ePrivacy Regulation being considered by European institutions.
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Proposed ePrivacy Regulation to affect all European industries and cost more than €500 billion in reduced annual turnover
Read more: Proposed ePrivacy Regulation to affect all European industries and cost more than €500 billion in reduced annual turnoverA report commissioned by the Developers Alliance and produced by London Economics shows that the proposed ePrivacy Regulation being discussed in Brussels is potentially costly, definitely confusing, and likely to reduce innovation and investment across the EU. The total costs could soar as high as €551.9 billion annually in reduced turnover, with an impact far…
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Joined up thinking on emergency apps: your fridge can talk to your phone, so why can’t emergency services apps communicate? EENA to the rescue
Read more: Joined up thinking on emergency apps: your fridge can talk to your phone, so why can’t emergency services apps communicate? EENA to the rescueThere are hundreds of emergency services applications in use across Europe, but they can currently only be used locally. In 2018, this should be a cause for alarm, so public safety organisation, EENA, together with Beta 80, Deveryware and the Developers Alliance, is going to do something about it.
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Developers Alliance Reacts to the Publication of the European Commission Proposal on Fairness in Platforms-to-Business Relations
Read more: Developers Alliance Reacts to the Publication of the European Commission Proposal on Fairness in Platforms-to-Business RelationsDevelopers Alliance Press Release on the Publication of the European Commission Proposal for a Regulation on Promoting Fairness and Transparency for Business Users of Online Intermediation Services and Online Search Engines in the Digital Single Market
