As powerful as Apple and Google seem, they both answer to customers and users.
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Jive has 3, 000 customers and 15 million users including Cisco, Nike and VMWare.
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Current and prospective customers gather to hear from RightNow users and execs, compare notes, eat lunch and attend workshops on technical topics.
Fortunately, for such startups, there are a number of precursors to paid customers, such as: trial users, freemium customers and qualified prospects.
He cited three reasons for what will be a nearly year-long effort to convert 25 million lines of code to play on the new Mac OS. His customers demanded it, he wants Apple users as his customers and he likes OS X.
Xero has more than 100, 000 paying customers and 200, 000 users in more than 100 countries.
For those of you without kids or who live on a remote island without a broadband connection, Minecraft is a legitimate worldwide phenomenon, a building block video game that launched in 2009 and now has over 8 million paying customers and a total of 40 million users worldwide, its own conference, and a legion of YouTube stars.
For example, you can start to get invaluable feedback from potential users and customers with simple mock-ups that can help refine your product road map.
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How do you design a system that not only allows new compute resources to begin to operate as part of your service, but also folds in an up-to-date copy of the data your users and customers depend on?
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The Y Combinator company, founded in 2007 by Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, already has the majority of its users internationally and has paying customers in more than 175 countries.
Is the function of the unified company the service of its users and advertising customers, or the service of the future itself?
Is the function of the unified company not, in fact, the service of its users and advertising customers, but the service of the future itself?
The new payment system would allow Google to offer retailers more data about their customers and help them target ads and discount offers to mobile-device users near their stores.
Microsoft claims there are 22, 000 customers and over 1.1 million users of its Dynamics CRM product (which is built inside of Outlook in addition to having a web interface).
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For homeowners who heat with gas, for industrial users and for electricity customers, they are great.
Although we have 3000 customers across all the industries and 15 million users and internal employees in social or external communities, we have embraced the early adopters and the innovators.
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That war badly scarred IBM, tore at the loyalties of its corporate users, and slowed down customers' buying decisions.
Google also has its millions of Gmail users and its GoogleApps company customers.
Shops have been banned from giving plastic bags to their customers and police are reportedly stopping plastic-bag users in the street.
Additionally, free users have different requirements than paying customers and responding to these needs takes the product development focus off the paying customers.
These people are often more serious about dating and mating than the casual users on bigger sites, where Siminoff's customers might not fare as well with loads of competition and little handholding.
Automatically Renewable Contracts (ARCs) kick in if customers do not actively opt out, and impose penalties if users want to move to another service provider.
Sprint customers could have handsets with two-way radio service and Nextel users would gain the benefits of Sprint data and voice telephone service.
Users can also book appointments with potential customers or suppliers and keep track of them with a meeting notification service.
We currently have over three million active users on M-Pesa and over eight million customers registered ready to transact with M-Pesa.
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So far, this appears to be largely a New York phenomenon, though San Francisco's Coffee Bar does now put out signs when the shop is crowded asking laptop users to share tables and make space for other customers.
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In addition to showing the names of other wireless customers, it'll also display the names of landline callers from in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland -- and, conversely, wireless customers will now show up on landline users' caller IDs.
On Monday, DCM Capital, a small and virtually unknown London-based trading house, is set to launch a bold, and potentially risky, platform for retail customers which claims to give users the ability to translate social media sentiment into investible trading signals.
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The company thinks the value for very fast response times on dynamically updated information is very broad, far beyond returning results to impatient retail customers, because it allows users such as business analysts, marketing and advertising staff to ask more questions and then develop and refine models.
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