That, and actually adding value to the product with both first and third-party software.
Sure there are plenty of companies that are trying to make money by adding value to open source software.
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Then learn new and better ways of adding value to your customers by seeking out many different sources of data.
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Toyota has continued to redesign and upgrade a majority of the cars they sell, adding value to an already highly competitive product.
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Businesses, aka job providers, enrich society by adding value to their customers.
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Doing so allows them to easily spot waste, in terms of both fuel and time, and pinpoint opportunities for adding value to customers.
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Dad-oriented gadgets for work and play now abound, fascinating the recipient and adding value to his life, while celebrating his love for the wonky gizmo.
Adding value to any space, the understated elegance of the CINEMA SCREEN Design minimizes visual distractions with an extremely narrow bezel, providing a captivating viewing experience with optimal comfort.
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Nor had the world yet discovered how to measure in a simple and practical way whether and to what extent they were adding value to, and delighting, their customers.
Focusing on adding value to the toys and to the games themselves and trying out new ideas is much more important than worrying about what the other guy is doing.
These new digital platforms offer an exciting opportunity to restore marketing to its fundamental roots, the basic principles of driving business growth by understanding and adding value to current and future customers.
Similarly, Africa should see the United States as a role model and shift its policy attention toward industrial development, starting with adding value to agricultural and mineral resources through aggressive industrial policy.
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Since its privatisation Vale, which the government often berates for not adding value to the raw materials it exports, has transformed itself from a medium-sized conglomerate to one of the world's biggest mining companies.
How is this adding value to the business?
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"We're very pleased to see PSoC 3 adding value to this innovative yet handy product, which taps into Apple's massive iOS installed base, " said Leon Tan, marketing manager for Cypress's MFi and mobile accessories solutions.
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"Developing the port, providing an important contribution to the regeneration of Dover, growing and adding value to the business, were key objectives for the DHB scheme and will continue to be our focus as we remain as a trust port, " he said.
The role it sees is being the critical hardware provider, adding value to what is likely to be a commodity business by getting into software that bridges the old and new worlds, and services around a few key industries, most likely healthcare and retail.
Facebook is stepping up efforts to police the network by curbing spam and restricting apps that aren't adding sufficient value to the network.
This is just another way for special interests to use government to line their pockets at the expense of workers and consumers alike, while adding no value to the product in question.
We need, therefore, the other type of growth, the type than comes from both using resources more efficiently and from adding more value to them.
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"With AcerCloud, Acer now supports free file sharing between all of the key mobile devices, adding tremendous value to Acer customers, " said Acer President, Jim Wong.
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And by looking at an industry that seemingly had no connection with theirs, they came up with several good ideas for improving their products and adding more value to their customers.
It started at the simplest of activities in the value chain, then, decision by decision, every time that Dell outsourced the next lowest-value-adding of the remaining activities in its business, Asus added a higher value-adding activity to its business.
We look forward to the Federal Government adding more high-value information to Data.gov and to continuing our experiments to improve your ability to access and use open government data.
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American Express is committed to adding value for small merchants, helping them grow their business.
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Some firms have given up manufacturing and turned to adding value through design and research and development.
With rates remaining at such levels, house prices are expected to keep rising, adding about 14% to the value of the average house.
And when US firms that imagine a product, then package, market and sell it, can import cheaper inputs, that improves profit margins, adding to shareholder value.
Adding to the value-investor type strategy MDH pursues in building its portfolio, it should benefit from improving trends in economic activity and improved corporate profitability and cash positions, which ought to facilitate more business trips and conferences.
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Choosing a tool that facilitates natural interaction among individuals instead of the static nature of email is the first step to adding value and driving efficiencies in managing everyday tasks, which should be the main requirement for any solution you choose.
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