Tencent Holdings, which has its own hugely popular social media app (Weixin, or WeChat) and is trying to build up its e-commerce platform.

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"If you can build a good platform made up of high-tech, high-quality elements and you then produce, oh, five vehicles on that platform, you are going to save a lot of money, " says Folz.

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The majority of the Replicator's internal space is wide open, save for a build platform that can be adjusted up and down by turning a threaded screw and the gantry atop the space that houses the Stepstruder MK8, whose front is monopolized by a large pair of fans.

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Amazon could build on this platform, and -who knows- maybe they will catch up to Apple as they gain more supply chain scale and expertise.

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The site also features an interactive discussion and opinion platform to help users develop a sense of responsibility on the Internet and build up content and knowledge.

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Leading music streaming service Deezer is to launch a series of sweeping updates to its platform to give developers the opportunity to build products around music globally and open up new revenue streams from their products.

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The specimen is then rotated on a mechanised platform as it is exposed to the X-ray beam, in order to build up a three-dimensional picture.

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