SmartThings aims to build a platform to make it easy to connect all these disparate objects and processes.
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And if you build a platform people love inside, you can build a big company around that quickly.
Consider the intern who chooses to work for free to gain experience, or the writer who chooses to blog for free to build a platform.
Most big brands will forgo the six months it takes to build a platform, staff infrastructure, standardize editorial guidelines, and build a sales force in major U.S. markets.
There it hopes to find at least half a billion barrels of oil, enough to build a platform like ExxonMobil's nearby Hibernia, which can withstand a jostle from a million-ton iceberg.
Members of Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps (CUOTC) have agreed to build a platform representing the roof of the 70ft (21m)-high Senate House, and a vehicle will be hoisted to the top.
The party - which performed disappointingly in last year's English council elections - needed to make a "breakthrough" at a local level, Mr Farage acknowledged, if it was to build a platform for national election victories.
Six years ago I co-founded Mashery to build a platform that allows large and small businesses to create APIs to extend the distribution of whatever product or service they sell to new customers, and to allow any of their customers to interact with them wherever they want to.
There is tremendous value to unlock if Wal-Mart can build a platform to connect its dispersed users from various markets, and while we believe that recent efforts are moving in the right direction, it looks like it will be a while before online sales really move the needle for the retail giant.
In March, Zynga announced plans to build a gaming platform at Zynga.com for gamers to connect outside of Facebook in a game-specific website.
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Such worries explain the urgency of its efforts to build a common platform.
Williams, along with former Google employee Biz Stone and investor Jack Dorsey set out to build a podcasting platform called Odeo, but after Apple launched iTunes, the company quickly became obsolete.
Before Apple bought it, Morgenthaler says, the plans at Siri were to build out a platform of services in e-commerce and access to a wide range of services on the Internet.
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"If you can build a good platform made up of high-tech, high-quality elements and you then produce, oh, five vehicles on that platform, you are going to save a lot of money, " says Folz.
The majority of the Replicator's internal space is wide open, save for a build platform that can be adjusted up and down by turning a threaded screw and the gantry atop the space that houses the Stepstruder MK8, whose front is monopolized by a large pair of fans.
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We believe that Internet security is the NEXT BIG THING upon which we can build a powerful Internet platform company.
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The Toledo prospect, as it is known, was thought to hold as much as 200 million barrels of oil before it was drilled, and ChevronTexaco hoped to pair it with nearby discoveries by Shell and Unocal and build a shared production platform.
The Toledo prospect, as it is known, was thought to hold as much as 200 million barrels of oil before it was drilled, and ChevronTexaco hoped to pair it with nearby discoveries by Shell and Unocal, of California, to build a shared production platform.
We are in a big transitional space, especially for agencies with social and mobile who have to decide how to build across platform strategies, how to build a campaign that is meaningful and respectful.
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It can also be used by a developer who is using the full Pentaho Business Analytics platform to build a formal data warehouse.
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On paper at least, this looks like a strong platform on which to build a global business.
That may no longer be the case: The next challenger is not a console but an open platform anyone can build a console for.
How do you build social out as a platform and enable lots and lots of quick focused applications?
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Not only was it about trying to recalibrate the company, but also trying to reinvest and build a bigger and better platform for our clients.
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Like no other realty star before her, Frankel has used the platform to build a business brand: Skinnygirl.
We're not getting carried away, but it's a platform to build on.
The prime minister said Northern Ireland's best days still lay ahead and described the accord as "the platform to build a new, confident, inclusive and modern" society.
The starting point of this agile enterprise was to build a very rudimentary micro-blogging platform, similar to Twitter.
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Optimists see it as a potential platform to build mutual trust.
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