When Jack Ma , a Chinese-born Internet entrepreneur, came to Silicon Valley in 1999 to pitch his new venture--an e-commerce play dubbed Alibaba --investing in China was still a dubious proposition.
With this new social e-commerce play, Sina would also have another way to monetize the Weibo platform besides the plain display advertising.
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Mr Omidyar also takes pleasure in pointing out that eBay is almost the only pure-play e-commerce firm that has been consistently profitable from the beginning.
However, no pure-play clothing e-commerce site has every taken off in the US because people like to go to a physical store to try things on.
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JVC's e-Shift pixel technology is at play here, which we first saw in consumer products with the '4K' projectors it shipped in 2011, and updated in last year's models.
The e-mail app in general looks great: Facebook integration comes into play here, too, so when you load an e-mail it's accompanied with the sender's Facebook portrait as well.
"I have a world in my mind, " Valle wrote in an e-mail to one fantasy role-play partner.
Dr Tharoor noted that the E-9 has a crucial role to play to address vast challenges, underlining the need to assess what can be achieved between now and the 2015 target date, and the critical factors that impede progress.
All you really want is to get out of the store and start using that shiny new phone to play games, check e-mails, share photos and take advantage of the plethora of fun and functional apps on the market.
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The XT780 brings Social TV and media, Google Play, web search, e-mail, shopping, news and online videos straight to users' fingertips.
Just a week ago the University of Georgia revealed that many of its study participants -- Athens residents who were given a Kindle to play with -- weren't happy with their e-reader experience, but yesterday a new study reported something fairly contrasting.
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The camera can also run all the regular smartphone apps, allowing users to send e-mail, browse the Internet, listen to music and play games.
They let you make phone calls, send e-mails, browse the Web, take pictures and video, play music and even use applications such as Microsoft Office.
They let you make phone calls, send e-mails, browse the Web, take pictures and video, play music and even use applications such as Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Office.
You can watch Internet TV, listen to streaming music or play a first-person shooter while downloading a huge e-mail attachment, and not miss a thing.
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Sure, they can play some video games, surf the Web and handle modern e-mail and calendar software.
The company concluded that it had been the victim of a sophisticated attack that had exposed the addresses, passwords, birthdays, and e-mail addresses of seventy-seven million PSN subscribers, who pay to play games and watch movies.
Though the smart phone itself has been out for a few years now, its value as a game device and its game play mechanics (i.e. using the accelerometer or location-based systems) have only begun to take off relatively recently.
Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.
Anderson flooded investors with enthusiastic e-mails, says the SEC, claiming Westar was drilling a well in a "huge play" in Railroad Valley, Nev.
The play on British Airways' name comes from a website bearing the Unite logo and urging passengers to e-mail the airline's chairman in support of the striking employees.
Amazon competes with a variety of stellar tech companies in its business structures like Apple with its e-reader and with Netflix for streaming video, which is an area where the Kindle Touch and Kindle Fire will play.
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