Given the assigned health inequalities faced by sexual minorities, it is fitting to assess whether m-health could be associated with better health-related outcomes for these sexual minorities. The present study examines associations between m-physical and m-mental health apps and sexual...

App stores have become the subject of controversy and criticism within antitrust. For instance, app developers such as Spotify and Epic Games (creator of Fortnite) allege that Apple’s 30 percent cut of all sales in the App Store violates the antitrust laws and is indicative of monopoly power....

Small and medium-sized enterprises face several challenges mainly related with lack of access to Finance frequently due to a lack of formal Accounting system and financial management, which leads to weaknesses in their internal financial capabilities. Moreover, from the supply side traditional...

With the ongoing dramatic drop in prices for smartphones in India and the broader developing world, new frontiers are opening up for the incorporation of mobile technology into public service delivery. Mobile services in the fields of education and health have already been widely disseminated,...

This paper studies how restricting data exchange between firms affects market competition in the app economy. The identification exploits iOS's privacy policy update, which limits apps from tracking users across other apps using identifiers. We find that the iOS update reduces startup app...

Recent years have been characterized by privacy regulations amid concerns of exploitative data collection and use, thereby also setting boundaries to the data economy that fuels today's ad-funded Internet. An example is Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT), which necessitates explicit consent...