As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.

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Some of the start-up engine companies say they could ultimately get orders from makers of power generators or boat engines.

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Nevertheless, there are several reasons to think that America's start-up engine will move into a higher gear, creating badly needed jobs.

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The 15-employee, Palo Alto-based start up has launched a surprisingly effective, platform-agnostic search engine to help you find apps for every relevant platform.

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In 2002, Tancer, a former Navy prosecutor, was working for the search engine LookSmart when he discovered the recently-launched start-up Hitwise.

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Barney Pell co-founded the ambitious start-up Powerset in 2005 that aimed to upend the search engine market.

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With the combination of the back-illuminated CMOS sensor and TruePicVI SLR image processing engine, the iHS Technology made it improve the image quality, the speed from camera start-up until shooting, focus time, and continuous shooting time.

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Push the backlit engine-start button and the dashboard air vents automatically rotate open while the rotary shift knob rises up from the center console.

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The multi-tasking image-processing Venus Engine enables beautiful image recording and Sonic Speed AF (Auto Focus) combined with a quick camera start-up time to offer a high-speed response time to ensure users can capture even the most spur-of-the-moment photo opportunities.

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