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While startups such as Roku and Boxee offering compact, Internet-friendly set top boxes have opened up their platforms to a wide array of developers, Apple still keeps AppleTV on a tight leash, even as the number of developers and apps for its iPad and iPhone continue to swell.
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But hey, rather than argue endlessly about Internet pricing (the market should decide), let's brainstorm about opportunities opened up by always-on Internet access.
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But McNamee says he can keep up the growth, by performing more of the life-insurance-application process for companies and by carefully expanding into related lines, such as monitoring clinical trials for drug companies--another opportunity opened up by the Internet, which offers the most efficient way to track and report such events.
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The Internet and new digital technologies have already opened up the self-publishing industry.
NPR: iPad Could Help Self-Publishers Kick Open Doors
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More important, Germany's big commercial banks, all of which opened combined telephone and Internet units in the mid-1990s, have been forced to rethink their strategies.
ECONOMIST: Online stockbroking
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So last November they opened the world's largest Internet cafe, an 800-seat beast smack in New York's Times Square.
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Of the 30 social media or Internet-related IPOs since the beginning of 2010, 80% are below where they opened on their first trading day and 60% are below their IPO price, according to Birinyi Associates.
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The business opportunities opened up by this device-to-data center world, with billions of Internet-connected devices generating Big Data, are the next big thing.
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