Apps have occasionally chafed at living in a world shaped by the app rules written by Apple and Google’s Android. — Reuters
Nine mobile app companies are launching a new trade group to weigh in on the nation’s most controversial tech policy issues, banding together to assert their independence from Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google.
Booking Holdings Inc’s Priceline, OpenTable Inc and Kayak, along with Perry Street Software, which operates dating applications, are among the founding members of the App Coalition. The group kicked off its operations April 29 calling on Congress to ensure that startups can access loans and grants designed to help small businesses weather the coronavirus pandemic.
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