Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.
Facebook is rapidly developing into a superior platform for conducting lots of business.
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Right here is where the penny finally dropped for me: Flipboard made the intuitive leap that while print publications were struggling to develop digital platforms, a smart startup could make a splash by developing the platform independently and partnering with content providers.
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With the purchase of Fundamo, a mobile financial services platform provider in developing economies, Visa is launching a product that will help it further extend its reach into developing countries.
From a technical perspective, I can say that developing for the platform is not a simple matter of write once, run everywhere.
It was the epoch of developing a bold new computing platform.
While investors have focused on mobile, which is, the next frontier, developing a solid display advertising platform, and one that incorporates real-time bidding is key to success on this front.
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Instead it provides a platform for companies developing drones.
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Nevertheless, we believe that with an expanding international presence, robust growth in hotel bookings and a focus on developing its mobile platform, Expedia is well-positioned to leverage growth in the online travel market.
We believe that with an expanding international presence, the robust growth in hotel bookings and a focus on developing its mobile platform, it is well-equipped to leverage growth in the global online travel market.
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The firm was quietly developing their platform and a year ago was ready with it.
That group is developing Pangaea, a global technology platform, scan and go apps that let shoppers buy in store via a smartphone, and online operations in growing markets outside the U.S. such as Brazil and China.
Slimtrader is a promising start-up that launched a commerce platform a year ago using the tools available in the developing world: feature phones and SMS. A traveler in Lagos, Nigeria can enter the text shortcode for a bus ticket and get a reply with a schedule and prices.
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We speculated that one reason EA was charging a premium was the fact that it was developing for the iPad, which was a slightly more advanced platform.
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Ford is also developing a family of vehicles from a platform borrowed from Volvo (nasdaq: VOLVY - news - people )--which Ford also owns.
About a year ago it partnered with biNu, a mobile app platform for feature phones in developing countries, so that its Worldreader Mobile app would appear on the home screen.
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Orbital Sciences survived by developing a new rocket launched from a far more reliable platform, a jumbo jet.
And are you willing to have teachers on the platform, in the committees, as a part of developing those plans?
Here is the problem: Developing search engines and advertising and operating platform systems requires a more liberal, an entrepreneurial organization that allows employees to experiment with new things with little supervision.
But on the games publishing side, ngmoco has a strong library of its own games with a couple dozen titles, whereas OpenFeint has stopped developing games to focus on platform.
Intended as a platform for discussion, exchange, sharing of best practice and developing recommendations on cooperation between the participating countries in the field of ECCE training, the meeting will also highlight recent higher education research and practice.
As noted above, nine months does make a difference and the ARCP management team has done an excellent job at developing the platform.
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At GSP11, Matternet was founded, which is creating a platform to use unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver goods and aid in developing countries.
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The upgrade comes after web giant Google announced Monday it is developing a free software package for cell phones that would give it a new platform on which to sell ads and services (See "Google Wants Your Phone, Too" and "Google's Call").
The upgrade comes after web giant Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) announced Monday it is developing a free software package for cell phones that would give it a new platform on which to sell ads and services (See "Google Wants Your Phone, Too" and "Google's Call").
The meeting will also serve as a platform for initiating dialogue and collaboration for improving access to scientific information in developing countries.
Though the growth of HTML5 has hit a few speed bumps, a healthy 63% of developers are interested in developing for the mobile web, according to a Q4 2012 survey of developer preferences by mobile platform Appcelerator.
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The company later added ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash to its product and platform list via an acquisition of its former competitor, Macromedia, and is currently developing a suite of cloud-based solutions focused on the social and analytics spaces.
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Marvell has also expanded its collaboration with Stanford University by announcing the formation of the SMILE Consortium, an industry organization dedicated to developing innovative education solutions on an open platform that enable "Classroom 3.0, " a connected, secure learning environment that simplifies and speeds the deployment of technology to students worldwide.
Every few years, faced with a trough, they will retreat to developing countries as economic exiles, simultaneously diffusing knowledge globally, extending their native platform ecosystems, and recouping their own losses.
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