BANGALORE, INDIA: Google has announced the expansion of its Google Chrome store, open marketplace to India.

The open marketplace, which was launched nine months ago in the United States allows Google Chrome web users to discover and try applications available on the web.

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Announcing the launch through a blog post, Guneet Singh, lead consumer marketing and Gautam Gandhi, new business development posted, "Today, we're expanding and making the store available in 24 more countries, including India. You'll now find it much easier to discover and add new apps, extensions and themes to Chrome, across a variety of categories."

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Google also announced that, Chrome web users can access a range of new applications, which are developed from Indian developers and publishers in the newly launched web store.

In addition, web users can try out thousands of others applications which are available in the Chrome store using Chrome web browser.

SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Intel Corp and Google Inc launched a development partnership on Tuesday, the latest effort by the world's dominant maker of PC microprocessors to break into the booming smartphone market.

The two companies will work together to optimize future versions of Google's Android mobile software for Intel's "Atom" processors, hoping to speed the development and time-to-market of future Intel-powered smartphones.

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The move could jump-start Intel's efforts to expand into the market for mobile phones and touchscreen tablet devices at a time when sales of PCs are slowing.

The first Android phones featuring Google chips should be available in the first half of 2012, Intel executives said at the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.