Samsung continues to manufacture the A6 processor, the iPhone 5's main computing engine, based on Apple's design.

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Last June, Google began ramping up its pursuit of Amazon by unveiling Google Compute Engine, a cloud-computing competitor to Amazon Web Services.

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In computing, the driver that determines how the engine is used is the character and elegance of the algorithms, not only the programming logic itself, but also the skill in creating that logic in the first place.

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But now that the Internet has made communications--rather than computing--the tech industry's growth engine, tech entrepreneurs are starting to tune in.

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One biggie was the announcement that any and all companies looking for computing horsepower can jump on board its formerly-limited Google Compute Engine, part of the Google Cloud Platform.

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Google has moved from a search engine to a powerhouse ad placement company and is pushing the edges of growth in mobile computing as well as several other markets.

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Already, the search engine has spawned businesses such as search-engine marketing and optimization, or Web arbitragers, and companies that live by serving Google's voracious computing needs (see: " The Search Industrial Complex").

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Relying on oil and gas wealth, the country has yielded only a handful of entrepreneurial successes: search engine Yandex, e-mail service Mail.ru, cyber security giant Kaspersky Labs, and cloud computing company Parallels.

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