Users came first, revenue was just a necessity to get his mission of connecting the world executed.
Everyone knew Facebook was connecting the world and everyone wanted in.
From broadband Internet to latest-generation wireless technologies, from aeronautical and maritime navigation to radio astronomy and satellite-based meteorology, from convergence in fixed-mobile phone, Internet access, data, voice and TV broadcasting to next-generation networks, ITU is committed to connecting the world.
And whether or not NBC's licensing bet pays off, old media plants a massive victory stake in the ground, pushing aside technology's rightful role of connecting the world in shared moments, impervious to the sharpened sticks hurled by the digerati.
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As David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, notes, companies can use the site for advertising and marketing "based on the extremely exact demographic data volunteered by the individual".
The conversation was guided by Techonomy Media founder David Kirkpatrick, who, as author of the 2010 bestseller The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, is a widely acknowledged expert on the company and the strategies of its founder Mark Zuckerberg.
And, despite our memories of the slow-dialing modems of the '90s, connecting to the World Wide Web was faster than ever at the time.
Then, when a someone using the software wants support or features for connecting the product to the world of commercial IT, a license is required.
There is no simple technical solution to improve the passenger experience in connecting with the outside world while at sea.
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This is a critical success factor when managing and leading major transformational changes that include rapid growth in third-world countries, and in the global population, as well as a huge increase in the number of people connecting online around the world.
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Especially if you're connecting them around the world.
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"It's not just a tour about entertainment or music alone but about connecting people around the world and making us understand that we're all part of that one entity, which is love, " Nneka told CNN.
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That view overlooks the broader role that local papers now play in connecting their hometown communities to the world around them.
He still travels a lot, about 40% of the time, but regional jet service connecting through Charlotte or Atlanta makes the world accessible.
At the margin, they may make some unpopular routes viable and increase frequency on others, but the notion that they play a vital role in connecting London with the rest of the world is not supported by the evidence.
You think back to the semiconductor revolution, the age of computing, and of course, the Internet -- and most recently, with regard to the Internet, the rise of social networks connecting hundreds of millions of people around the world in milliseconds.
Now a supply chain of myriad links runs all around the world, connecting designers, chipmakers, car-parts firms and assembly lines.
Passengers departing from Manston Airport to Schiphol in Amsterdam will be able to take connecting flights to destinations around the world.
Also planned are SEZs in Karachi, Islamabad, Peshawar and along the Karakoram Highway, the highest paved road in the world, connecting Pakistan and China.
The .eu domain ranks among the largest top-level domains in the world, connecting 500 million people in 27 EU countries to one Internet identity.
Connecting more people to the Web world-wide creates more potential users of its Web-search engine and other services such as YouTube and its Google Play media and app store.
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We connect hundreds of millions of people ultimately around the world by connecting talent with opportunity -- today, 120 million members on a global basis, and that's growing north of two members per second, the fastest rate of growth in our history.
The planned architecture will give enterprise-level companies the capability of connecting wirelessly to a server and to applications anywhere in the world.
Over the next six months, Buford plans to contine rolling out the MaxiBox while also returning to the idea of connecting engineers, inventors and product developers to the sometimes confusing world of manufacturing.
International cooperation on connecting performing-rights organizations around the world through digital databases had become one of her major interests.
"(Today) it is more of a gate, first of all for Romania connecting (the country) with the world, and in same time it is a gate for central and Eastern Europe, " he added.
Connecting Afghans to one another and to the world through mobile technology has become the foundation for a new economy.
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By connecting Klout score to the kind of real-world perk that actually means something to the users it covets most, the service has taken a valuable first step out of the ether a step away from Klout and toward real, no-fooling clout.
Not only that, this is the year of business analytics, as more people clue into the implications of a world with billions of devices connecting information to enormous databases.
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