David Cameron's party is also trying to get members involved in policy formation - a process that had effectively died out - and it has pioneered the use of "open primaries" to select Tory election candidates.
Foursquare and the mobile marketing revolution that it has pioneered has leveled the playing field, especially for small businesses who can use the same free platform and, in many cases, far more creatively than the big boys.
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The modern UI of large typefacing, tiles and horizontal views has been pioneered and tweaked in many consumer products, From the first Windows Media Centers, through the Zune music players, and refined in the Windows Phone 7 range, Metro UI was the clean style of interface that has now been iterated into the latest products.
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He has performed more than 360 procedures in the past four years and has pioneered several new techniques.
One global company based in Florida, MTN has for the past thirty years pioneered and developed satellite-based services for virtually all of the cruise ships and cargo carriers in the world.
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Unlike Toshiba, which pioneered the laptop computer and has learnt to live with the jittery pace of development and capital expenditure of the computer industry, Hitachi still saunters to the 20-year product cycle of heavy-electrical machinery.
Mr. Wang launched a "Happy Guangdong" campaign this year, pledging to focus on improving living standards while slowing GDP growth in the province of 104 million people that pioneered China's economic reforms and has long been seen as a bellwether of the country's future.
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All of them are chasing Vanguard Group, which pioneered the cheap fund business and has 46 ETFs that trade without commissions for its investors.
Vertebroplasty was first pioneered in France and has been done in the U.S. since researchers at the University of Virginia reported good results in the 1990s.
But the company's tie-up with BP focuses on another area: using the sequencing technologies that Venter has pioneered to examine the microbes that are found inside natural gas and oil wells.
If any company can create a fiber futures market, it would be Enron, which has pioneered in the trading of electricity and even weather hedges (FORBES, July 6, 1998).
One of the biggest victims of the change looks like being the famed kaizen (step-by-step improvement) system that was pioneered by Toyota in the 1970s and has been treated as gospel by manufacturers throughout Japan ever since.
The Centre has pioneered a number of ideas, including a self-locking bicycle and a chair with two slots at the front for hanging bags in bars and cafes.
Codex pioneered the field of book audience research and has interviewed almost 300, 000 book buyers since 2004.
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It's a risky move for Dell , which pioneered the direct-sales PC business and has made the strategy its hallmark.
Celebrating 25 years in business, Sonnet has pioneered and brought to market numerous innovative solutions that enhance the performance and connectivity of Macintosh, Windows, and other industry-standard computers.
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OsComp Systems, a privately held start-up company based in Houston, Texas, wants to distribute natural gas the way that propane is distributed and has pioneered a compressor technology that it claims will allow it to do so.
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Professor Stuart Campbell, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George's Hospital Medical School, has pioneered the 4-D ultrasound scanning.
Yet to row back on deregulation would be intensely shaming for a country that pioneered the idea in the first place, and has been preaching its benefits ever since.
Since 2007, MTV has pioneered the use of Twitter at the VMAs and in 2010, ratings soared as the network integrated social tactics more fully to drive engagement and buzz through Twitter.
The structure was pioneered only in August, and has yet to be tested in a crisis.
The European Union (EU) has pioneered the market, which allows manufacturers, power companies and other producers of carbon dioxide to buy and sell Europe-wide emissions permits.
Since its inception in 2006, MeXvi has pioneered the assisted self-construction of homes in rural and semi-urban areas in over 13 states of Mexico, improving the quality of life of thousand of Mexicans.
The Independent, which pioneered the switch to compact and soon abandoned its broadsheet version, has been rewarded with a sales increase of over 20 per cent.
He has pioneered the use of technology to study cancer-associated genes and to construct animal models of many human cancer types, including cancers of the lung, pancreas, brain, and ovaries.
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And his input has yielded a great return: using the same talents that made him successful in business, Chuck Feeney has created some of the most amazing universities in the world, and pioneered incredible philanthropic efforts world wide from AIDS Relief in South Africa to Human Rights in Vietnam.
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He has pioneered livelihood improvement for the poorest in Cinnamon (Sri Lanka) and silk weaving (North India).
Club Med pioneered the all-inclusive holiday resort in the 1950s and 1960s, but has recently struggled amid the economic downturn in Europe.
Google is not the only company offering such a service and has come late to a market pioneered by a company called Overture.
"MasterCard has pioneered mobile payments with our PayPass technology and we're proud that it is at the heart of Google Wallet, " said Ed McLaughlin, chief emerging payments officer, MasterCard.
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