File this one under billionaires squabbling
with billionaires. Google has offered
the hand of friendship, in the form
of search and other mobile applications,
to the wireless industry.
The Wall Street Journal cited Google's
top executive on the concupiscent passion
the company has for mobile devices:
"What's interesting about the
ads in the mobile phone is that they
are twice as profitable or more than
the nonmobile phone ads because they're
more personal," said Google Chief
Executive Eric Schmidt at the D: All
Things Digital conference in May.
A partnership between wireless companies
and Google should be a no-brainer. The
wireless industry receives useful applications
and Google's industry-dominant search
on their phones, customers benefit from
those applications, and Google makes
some money on advertising.
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