The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google has started a drive to hire dozens of app developers for its Android smartphone operating system.
It's seen as the search giant trying to combat Apple's dominance in the mobile app market.
Currently, Apple offers more than 350,000 apps to it's iOS users, while the Android Market store lags behind at a-third of that number.
Google knows it's got to do a quick catch-up and apparently it's advertising for "software engineers, product managers, user-interface experts and others who have ideas for mobile apps". The whole kit-and-caboodle, in fact.
Google has only developed 20-or-so apps itself for Android and most of those are simply web extensions - like Google Mail.
The only Google app developed from scratch for Android is Google Sky Map, which lets users identify stars by holding their phone up to the sky. And that app is a product that was started by employees in their spare time.
Seem like Google has realised it's time to get its act together.
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