GM CEO calls on programmers to develop apps for vehicles

General Motors CEO Dan Akerson issued a personal invitation to software programmers to develop applications for GM vehicles.

The invitation, delivered Thursday in Boston, one of the nation’s entrepreneurial hot spots, comes as GM is preparing to integrate AT&T’s high-speed wireless Internet into its 2015 model-year vehicles.

The automaker announced earlier this year that it would launch an app store, much like those offered by Apple for its devices and Google for Android-powered devices, for GM vehicles.