7 Disruptive Innovations that Turned Markets Upside Down

Google

Google Apps was launched by Google that provides customized versions of many Google products under a custom domain name and features Web Applications like Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites. It is free for the first 30 days and then per month it charges $5 and for a year it charges $50. For education it is free, offers the same amount of storage space as Gmail accounts and combines features from the Standard and Premier editions. There is Google Apps Marketplace which is an App store for Google Apps users and contains various apps which are free and priced and also which can be installed to customize the apps used by the user. In its first 19 months it was able to get 10 million users and the user number is increasing day by day. Therefore it is making the industry move towards the cloud based information sharing world.