Mobile Minutes: Google's search ads; 5G revolution; Android for Work push; Health care's mobile moments
Google, reaching for revenue, will allow search ads in
Play store
As growth slows for Google, the search giant is pulling an
important new sales lever. In a blog post Thursday, the company said it will
let software developers pay to promote their apps in the Play store for the
first time.
Read more on Wall Street Journal
Mobile industry?s 5G revolution heralds the rise of the
machines
As executives from the world?s biggest phone companies gather in Barcelona next
week, much of their focus will be on the $1.7 trillion they?re spending as they
upgrade to fourth-generation wireless technology.
Read more on Bloomberg
Google expands push into workplace with Android for
Work effort
Google Inc. launched an initiative on Wednesday to make smartphones running its
Android software more appealing to corporations, a move that could help extend
the Internet company's reach into workplaces.
Read more on Reuters
Apps bring health care into 'mobile moments'
Those "mobile moments," such as standing in a grocery queue, are what
a generation of smartphone apps are looking to capture as a way to integrate
health care into everyday life.
Read more on USA Today