But now its strict focus on PC software has caused growth to lag.
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Ctrip also hawks tickets online, but its main focus is on service.
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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The company had a BlackBerry browser in the works last year, but put it on hold to focus on its Android and iPhone products.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
But as long as it continues its narrow focus on cows and production, its outlook will continue to sour.
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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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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.
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".
This season brings a number of new works on Roman history that focus not on the glories of Roman culture but on its notorious brutalities.
Po Na Na owns nightclubs, but its bars are more relaxed affairs without the focus on loud music and dancing.
But to me what really sets it apart is its focus on being part of Hawaii.
According to Caldwell, a self-described Twitter groupie, there was a point when Twitter considered building a business around its real-time API, but instead opted to focus on advertising.
But silver prices have stayed buoyant, as investors focus on its industrial side.
Kumar says the group's focus on costs comes from its commodities heritage, but today no industry can afford to ignore that dimension.
George says this legislation removes a huge overhang from Ruger's shares--not just by eliminating potential liability from individual lawsuits, but because it frees management to focus on the business and not its legal affairs.
And in 2018, New Orleans' tricentenary will focus not only on the founding of New Orleans but also its successful rebirth 300 years later.
The private operator can have more total staff for the same park visitation because its labor costs are so much lower, but what I want to focus on is the mix of staffing.
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Its focus remains on consumer web services, mobile and marketplaces, but it is also looking for tech companies in education, finance and health care.
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In eagerly taking the medication, investors should focus not just on the immediate upside and its durability, but also on the longer-term impact of potential side effects.
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Plaintiff lawyers seem to have anticipated its findings and switched their strategy recently to focus not on unintended acceleration but the lack of a brake-override device to prevent it from happening for whatever cause.
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