Small Businesses Turning to Apps

Businesses now are using mobile apps software for a variety of business processes. The market for these apps was $3.21 billion last year and is expected to nearly double to $6.12 billion by 2014, according to research firm Compass Intelligence, and reported by the Wall Street Journal.

"Apps are no longer exotic," says Abhi Ingle, an AT&T Inc. executive who deals with small-business applications.

One might speculate that the trend will continue, increasingly offering many ecosystem participants an ability to sell business software where it would have been prohibitive in the past, not the least because of sales staff training issues.

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