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Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store - BusinessWeek

Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store - BusinessWeek

Google Pushes Education Software Through App Store

Google is talking with makers of educational software to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion

(Bloomberg) — Google Inc. is talking with educational-software companies to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion this year.

Games and instructional tools for teachers from companies such as Grockit Inc. and Aviary Inc. are already offered in the Google Apps Marketplace, an online store that opened in March. Google, the world's largest search engine, seeks to lure more educational developers and is stepping up