Google is now seriously thinking of getting into the mobile app industry. The search engine giant is going to hire software developers to create applications for smartphones and tablet PCs.
Apple App store is currently the market leader in the mobile app industry with a collection of more than 400,000 apps and 10 billionth app download as of January 22, 2011.
On the contrary, Google’s Android app store, Android Market, has more than 100,000 applications.
Google is going to hire “software engineers, product managers, user-interface experts and others who have ideas for mobile apps.” Some existing Google employees even changed jobs to speed up the effort.
According to Gartner Inc., revenue, generated from advertisements on free mobile apps and paid apps, is going to triple to $15.1 billion in 2011.
In order to grab a slice of the revenue, Google is required to produce better quality apps that would help the Android OS devices to gain more market share.
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