First Round has an engineering team that has built a platform for connecting the entrepreneurs in its companies both offline and online.
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Streetline originally developed the sensors used in the parking space, but has now built a platform for managing information about parking spaces.
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Part of the reason is because the company has built a platform that can quickly port existing games into a format suitable for use on a cellphone.
To keep things in perspective, startups are easier now than they have ever been: Servers on demand (EC2, Heroku, Linode) and rapid development technologies (Rails, Django) make it possible to develop a custom-built online platform in a relatively short time.
Still, the 7th century Al-Aqsa mosque was built atop an earlier Christian church, which in stood astride a Roman temple, all of which stood on the platform built by king Herod to house the second Jewish temple, which itself replaced the temple of Solomon, built around 900 BCE.
But Spear held a hidden gem: It had built a computerized trading platform known as RediPlus, and Goldman built this into the centerpiece of its electronic trading business.
To fill the void, RainStor has built a database platform that handles unimaginable amounts of information.
Firefox OS is yet another mobile platform built entirely on HTML5 that treats websites as apps.
The BioStation CT includes a customized software program that Nikon has built into the platform (called the CL-Quant Analysis).
FDC, for its part, has built a production platform that offers credit-card services.
Last month on the CrunchBase blog, SiSense revealed CrunchAnalytics, its Web-based, free analytical platform built on top of the CrunchBase database.
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Yammer is also a pure-play social platform built from ground up to leverage the converging trends of social, mobile, cloud, and real-time communication.
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Yorkshire lost opener Andrew Gale for 12, but partner Craig White and Anthony McGrath built a solid platform with a partnership of 63.
All users were given a 10 GB allotment of file storage that could be accessed through this API by apps built for the platform.
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Ironically, the modern multinational corporation is perhaps the most sophisticated social organizational platform built in human history, with resources and global reach that are unprecedented.
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Rather, success flowed from the design attributes of the platform itself, a platform built around the need for inoperability, and guided by an integrated strategic vision.
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John Battelle, the founder of Federated Media, told Digiday that in five years marketers will be able to buy native units across a still-to-be-built unified programmatic platform.
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The new Focus will be built on one platform and will have the same engine, transmission, chassis and main body in all the markets where it is sold.
Built as a platform for me to champion social good, I plan to continue to write, speak, coach and consult to help others leave their mark on the world.
The staying power of ads on Facebook is three times that on other sites, because customers stay longer on the site on account of the increasing functionality built in the platform.
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The Looks Engine is powered by Vivoom, the visual enhancing platform built on the same cutting-edge technology that has been used by top TV and film production studios for the past 16 years.
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The Freestyle crossover wagon, built on the same platform, will become the Taurus X.
"Smartphones, advanced cell networks, Skype, app stores--this is the best time to have built a new communications platform, " he says.
Market leaders have been doing that for decades. gyro client DAF built its entire marketing platform around service in the nineties, for example.
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And later this month they will go live with a new Face to Face video conferencing-based counselling service built around the Buzzumi platform.
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Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people ) last week released a switch known as the DCX platform, built by San Jose, Calif.
As for new offerings from Porsche, something based-on-but-smaller-than the Boxster (built on a VW platform, possibly with an inline-four engine), will come in the next year or two.
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It built its own technology platform to run the business.
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To extract Malampaya's gas, Shell will put down nine undersea wells - five in 2002 and four in 2009 - plus a production platform being built in Singapore and Subic.
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