Entrepreneur Anthony Goldbloom has also taken a community-focused approach in founding Kaggle, a predictive modeling competition platform for solving large data problems presented by companies, governments, and researchers.
The magic is not in a particular model but in the dynamics of platform competition.
Monopoly and the kind of robust platform competition between Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are mutually exclusive portraits of reality.
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In order to spur the development of innovation and entrepreneurship in desktop fabrication and 3D printing, the Kauffman Foundation, Maker Education Initiative and Inventables launched the Desktop Fabrication Competition on the iStart platform last summer.
That regulators are willing to breathe life into these intermediaries implies they do not recognize the platform-based competition between Google and Amazon for product searches.
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Since eSports is truly a global phenomenon, Blizzard has partnered with Twitch to broadcast all competition worldwide on its online platform in 720p HD through a unified StarCraft II destination.
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The platform will be in direct competition with almost all of the major PaaS offerings out there today.
Analyst Shaw Wu noted that RIM's BlackBerry smartphone was facing increased competition from devices on Google's Android platform and Apple's iPhone.
For Track 1, teams will develop technologies to be tested with the GFE platform during the second live Robotics Challenge competition to be held December 2014.
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Basically, it demonstrates how platform owners may choose to embed their own inferior, in this case, app, in order to provide stronger competition for other apps that add value to the platform.
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Most of the investments are in production facilities, RNCOS notes, adding that Brazil is likely to evolve into a production hub, becoming tough competition for China and India, and providing a platform for multinationals to develop and sell branded and generic versions of their off-patent medicines into other Latin American markets, if not further afield.
On the Web, they leapfrogged competition with the launch of Twelpforce, a customer service platform leveraging Twitter.
Winner of the 2010 Working Capital Telecom Prize, start up competition sponsored by Telecom Italia, Timbuktu Labs builds cross-platform reading experiences that bring the most advanced methods of education into the publishing market.
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Not only is it in the interest of Microsoft to promote the platform, but also for the carriers who are looking to increase competition in their supply chain and gradually decrease the impact of smartphone subsidies.
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Apple recently hit back with an advertising platform for its iPhone and iPad tablet that has terms Google says could limit competition.
The competition in Fort Worth spurred by his success has given emerging piano hopefuls a world-wide platform.
But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows, it will intensify the competition between large cloud service providers and enterprise software suppliers, which look to capture the growing, market, Gartner predicted.
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He will spin discs alongside the winner of the House the House DJ competition, an event hosted by MP and former music executive Mike Weatherley which seeks to give a platform to new young talent.
Before 2010, featurephones were still the norm in South Korea, and thanks to a rule set in early 2005, those devices required a domestic, mostly Java-based middleware called Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (or WIPI in short) that standardized network access to ensure fair competition between mobile companies.
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The Paris-based exchange had originally planned to set up a rival trading platform for UK shares in response to the LSE's decision to begin trading Dutch shares in competition with its Amsterdam bourse.
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