Akamai Technologies is the leader in the content delivery and value added services business.
Sina is an online media company which also offers mobile value added services in China.
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Unlike other e-commerce platforms, Rakuten offers a host of value-added services to merchants on its platform.
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Weibi can be used to purchase virtual goods for gaming and value-added services on the Sina Weibo site.
Despite growth in value added services, media revenues declined sequentially as customers renewed contracts at lower price points.
That will put HP in more direct competition with IBM for value-added services.
Leading with such value-added services has affected a positive mind shift among customers.
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This implies that the company has significant sales opportunities already in the pipeline when it comes to value added services.
Costolo says more and more brands are flocking to Twitter, and the company would love to see more value-added services.
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Do you agree and think that media growth will overshadow e-commerce growth which also benefits from several value added services?
However, the ICO said European laws demand that users must consent to their traffic data being used for "value added services".
An ESCO provides energy-efficiency-related and other value-added services and for which performance contracting is a core part of its energy-efficiency services business.
The company says it will focus on industries such as finance and health care, where RIM can provide value-added services beyond hardware.
Within a year Sulger expects customers to be using SmartPay to buy online and wireless value-added services, in addition to phone and utility bills.
The company makes money primarily from its mobile business as well as value added services like SMS, MMS, ringtones and mobile Internet in particular.
An increase in the popularity of smartphones and higher usage of mobile value added services by customers are further fueling growth for the company.
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Tencent Holding company owns a number of Tecent name brand internet and computer companies principally engaged in the value-added services markets online and in telecom.
Staying on top means Global Sources will need to continue to expand its line of value-added services, which competitors will have a hard time matching.
Tencent had previously indicated it would let the service remain free and try to monetize the platform by offering value-added services like online games and mobile shopping.
Through this strategic partnership, Juniper Networks is entering into an agreement with OnLive to jointly collaborate on creating additional value-added services and feature-rich applications using Junos Pulse.
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China Mobile had a total subscriber base of more than 616 million by June 2011, of which more than 90% subscribed to its value added services as well.
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In barely ten months he has made dramatic changes, emphasizing flashier products and marketing, new Web sites to handle customer complaints and ideas and a bigger push to sell value-added services.
Value-added services revenue in this vertical actually grew 7% sequentially.
On top of these very basic services, one can easily imagine may value added services that can be provided (long term storage, archival, monetization, cross-referencing with other users, etc).
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"We want to leverage that BBM platform to create new services that are really value-added services that people, companies, whatever, are really willing to pay for, " Mr. Heins said.
When Sprint makes Office 365 available, it plans to bundle it with value-added services to create solutions that further increase productivity and unleash the power of today's mobile workforce.
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Media content delivery (including value-added services) is the most important business segment for Akamai and it is understandable that the company would look to prevent its competitors from catching up.
Other companies, such as United Parcel Services and IBM, successfully stepped back and redefined what businesses they were in to create value-added services that built on their core products.
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Balsillie named carrier billing, value-added services, some undefined new type of advertising and Near Field Communications (NFC) as features that would soon be added to both the PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphones.
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