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Google promotes education software in app store
San Francisco Business Times
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010, 7:07am PST

Google Inc. is making a push to get more educational software in its app store, Bloomberg reports.

Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is talking with software companies to ramp up its offerings of educational games and instructional tools -- part of an industry that could reach $5 billion this year.

Companies such as Grockit Inc. and Aviary Inc. already have educational products available through the site.

The project could mean new revenue streams for Google. The Google Apps Marketplace, which opened in March, currently lets most software makers collect all revenue generated, though Google will soon begin taking a 20 percent cut, the report says.





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