When Apple launched the App Store alongside the iPhone 3G in July, 2008, it offered both a platform and distribution hub for developers to easily write and monetize software, and effectively created a new economy that a study estimates has generated about 466,000 jobs.
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Google Inc., seeking to get more of
its desktop-computer software onto mobile devices, introduced a
test version of its Chrome Web browser for the latest Android
operating system.