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title: 'Mobile app development in Oregon accounts for half a billion dollars in economic impact'
date: '2012-10-10T23:23:25-07:00'
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  - Mobile
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# Mobile app development in Oregon accounts for half a billion dollars in economic impact

Oregon was recently named as one of the [top states for mobile app development](http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/10/08/oregons-app-industry-among-nations-s.html "Oregon's app industry among nation's strongest"). And if you’ve been paying any attention, whatsoever, to our startup scene? That probably comes as little surprise. But what might be surprising is how much of an economic impact those mobile apps are driving: It’s a hair more than $500 million in total.

[KGW has more](http://www.kgw.com/news/Oregon-App-Producers-are-Big-Business-173411701.html "Oregon measures 4th in U.S. app production").

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