Google Apps Marketplace LAUNCHES: Google App Store

On Tuesday, March 09, 2010, Google Apps Marketplace launches the Google App Store to offer thrid-party developers to sell google applications. There are over 25 million google apps users as of the moment and still counting.

According to the Associated Press:

More than 50 software makers have agreed to sell their Internet programs through Google, which will keep 20 percent of the sales. The prices are expected to range from $50 annually to several hundred dollars annually per user.

Intuit Inc., a maker of business accounting software, and Concur Technologies Inc., a maker of expense reimbursement software, are among the best-known vendors peddling their wares in Google’s store.

All the applications sold in Google’s store can be melded with Google’s own cloud-computing services, said Vic Gundotra, the company’s vice president of engineering.

Category: Computer, Software, Technology