Ctrip also hawks tickets online, but its main focus is on service.
But now its strict focus on PC software has caused growth to lag.
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The focus on feature phones running its aging Symbian platform surprised many at the showcase, but shows the company broadening its focus to include various markets.
The 150-year-old global investment bank built its name on trading bonds, but recently it has shifted its focus overseas to lucrative businesses such as stock trading and advising companies on mergers.
What we are seeing is not a slowdown in the pace of innovation but a shift in its focus.
They are not concerned with all the reasons why an idea might not work, but focus on its possibilities and where it could take the company.
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Because the new operations are based on a "peer to peer" business model, "issues can arise that are out of your control, " says the 25-year-old Mr. Smith, who launched SpotHero in July 2011 as a driveway-sharing service for the Chicago market, but has since shifted its focus.
The Walking Dead was a great game because of its heavy focus on story, but also because of its desirable format.
Wal-Mart did report higher-than-expected earnings in the third quarter of this year--accomplished not by reinvention but by a focus on its core budget conscious consumers.
Demonstrating AppleTV effectively may not be simple even for Apple, but its retail stores' simpler focus and knack for attracting those interested in the digital lifestyle should help Apple TV's entry in the fledgling category.
She set up Race Online and initially pledged to get the poorest four million Britons online by the time of the London Olympics, but later the charity changed its focus to concentrate on making the UK "the world's first networked nation".
The Kindle may not wow users with its design, but it performs dependably enough that users can focus wholly on its content and forget that they're even using a high-tech gadget.
Virgin Atlantic Airways has built a successful business for many reasons but a critical one is its relentless focus on serving the customer better than other airlines.
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No, but the Focus Electric, like its bigger and pricier counterpart (which I drove briefly last week), is a harbinger of sweeping changes in how we drive and interact with our automobiles.
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Its intriguing to entertain the idea that putting CROs closer to the center of the ecosystem could be a key ingredient in allowing the drug business to maintain its focus on innovating but doing it while reducing system costs.
Ballmer is probably best running a sales organization for an enterprise company and would be best as a CEO of a firm which had that as its primary focus, but I think he would be happier as an SVP of sales.
Ford seems more enthusiastic about its electric Focus program, but it too is making very conservative volume estimates.
But as long as it continues its narrow focus on cows and production, its outlook will continue to sour.
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But in 1997 Apple began to focus its portfolio and its capabilities.
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But that made the camp, with its focus on the poor and marginalised, seem like a rebuke to the Church.
But for Apple to focus on making its ecosystem of developers and apps uniquely valuable, it had to own maps.
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In the Arab world, however, the attack on the legitimacy of the settlements appeals so powerfully not because its focus is narrow, but, on the contrary, because its implications are so broad and profound.
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But as Labour attempted to focus on its plans for the NHS, the hospital Cherie Blair was due to visit had to close its paediatric intensive care unit to new admissions because of staff shortages.
Po Na Na owns nightclubs, but its bars are more relaxed affairs without the focus on loud music and dancing.
The company had a BlackBerry browser in the works last year, but put it on hold to focus on its Android and iPhone products.
Investors puzzled over its hybrid consumer-and-enterprise business model, which depends on attracting consumers but selling services mainly to businesses, and its focus on the less-flashy world of professional connections.
But to me what really sets it apart is its focus on being part of Hawaii.
Last October it held a convention and spelled out its program, which is fairly radical but regional in focus, at least initially.
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Its vision was to build a computing environment that closely resembles the social networking experience that its employees have at home, but with a business focus.
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