"Intel has been a great partner as we work to develop a platform that supports an in-home gateway and client architecture, " said Steve Reynolds, senior vice president of Customer Premise Equipment for Comcast.
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Apple has already left Big G to develop its own platform and now Amazon is going the same root with Amazon Maps API.
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In 2012, the company stepped up its efforts to develop the Weibo platform and continues to focus on increasing the monetization of the online platform.
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The London Stock Exchange, which says that algorithmic trading now accounts for about 40% of its total volume, is in the midst of a four-year project to develop such a platform by next year.
Newsroom minds are racing with ideas, as our partner, MAZ, continues to develop its elegant publishing platform.
The reliance on Facebook is a notable risk and is motivating Zynga to develop its own gaming platform to deliver services directly to users.
It no longer made sense to try to develop solutions on a platform that was a year behind the one it just bought, he says.
For example, Google's "APIs, " or application programming interfaces, the tools used to develop applications for a platform, pass on information about the identity of the user.
My use of social media has allowed me to develop and market the platform on which the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, will hold a historic roundtable on Mamiverse, an online magazine for Latina mothers.
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In August, the two companies let lapse a five-year deal that required Microsoft to develop software for the Mac platform.
But until it can develop a more robust mobile platform of its own, it is likely to remain vulnerable to a disruptive challenger.
To sell subscriptions that bundle the Times in print, online and on mobile devices, the Times has had to develop an e-commerce platform that patches together various old and new databases and programs.
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In December, Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial (nyse: MC - news - people ), known for its Panasonic products, announced a partnership to develop a Linux-based platform for the home.
In an effort to modernize its citizen services and to consolidate legacy systems that had been developed over the years to support them, the city embarked on an initiative to develop a modern citizen services platform (CSP) with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
And whilst obviously Guardian Books started off with an advantage because it could access the vast amount of data collected by the Guardian and Observer newspaper websites, Sidwell said that they have an opportunity now to gather even more information, for example, data on how people read books, what apps they use on what platform can help develop how they distribute books.
Finally, it will now have a platform on which to develop trading in fast-growing derivatives and exchange-traded funds.
Merging the innovation capabilities of Linksys and Belkin provides a powerful platform from which to develop the next generation of home networking technology.
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The site also features an interactive discussion and opinion platform to help users develop a sense of responsibility on the Internet and build up content and knowledge.
In addition to its own distribution, Amazon has created a marketplace for other online retailers, with back office infrastructure and one-click payments as well as the infrastructure to develop on a scalable, monetizable platform.
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That said, the Foundation's funding situation could force Nokia to take action if it wants the platform to continue to develop and evolve, but we suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
To keep things in perspective, startups are easier now than they have ever been: Servers on demand (EC2, Heroku, Linode) and rapid development technologies (Rails, Django) make it possible to develop a custom-built online platform in a relatively short time.
"As the owner of the world's largest licensed karaoke library and karaoke service on TV and Internet, the KARAOKE Channel will combine its expertise with the advanced capabilities of the Xbox 360 platform from Microsoft to develop the best in-home karaoke experience ever, " says Eric Boyko, President and CEO of Stingray Digital Group Inc.
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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.
This cross-platform CCG has continued to develop a following and has even spawned a physical edition.
Pritikin explained that when they started working on the project, they had to decide whether they wanted to use an off-the-shelf product like the iPhone, or develop their own, perhaps using a platform like Android.
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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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He also argued that the skills base already built up in the north east of Scotland in the energy sector provided a "platform from which the industry can develop".
Our Gobi fifth generation reference platform helps ensure that OEMs can develop products across their choice of operating systems and hardware platforms to meet the growing demand for mobile connectivity.
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With an open application platform, PopBox enables virtually anyone to develop rich Internet applications for the biggest screen in the house.
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The two companies aim to help develop and deploy telematics applications on the Windows Azure platform, which includes Windows Azure and Microsoft SQL Azure, starting with TMC's electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012.
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