Equally positive for smaller software firms is that the fastest-growing part of this expanded market is unlikely to be controlled by Microsoft.
Competition also stepped up as search giant Google expanded its market share putting additional pressure on Yahoo and others.
"These vendors expanded their market reach and kept on improving the user experience of their Android devices, " said Ms. Cozza.
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As a result of an expanded individual market, Americans participating in the health care system might see benefits in three specific areas: cost, transparency and portability.
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"Instead of using the console-strategy to pull in new customers, Nintendo have expanded their market by persuading traditional non-gamers to play their games, " Ms Robertson explains.
When complete, the acquisition will be integrated into Corning's Life Sciences business segment, providing a much broader portfolio of high-quality laboratory research products and expanded global market reach.
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The new technologies expanded the market in unexpected ways.
However ADP reported that the private sector job market expanded during the month of February.
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Equity International began investing four years ago in Gafisa, which began building high-end homes but has expanded down-market.
The market expanded in volume by 7 percent in 2012 to 81.9 tons.
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Equity International began investing four years ago in Gafisa (nyse: GFA - news - people ), which began building high-end homes but has expanded down-market.
According to Fitch Ratings, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase were the biggest counterparties in terms of notional value outstanding at the end of 2006, and the market expanded substantially in 2007.
Some of this is because companies of all sizes have put products to market and expanded the variety of available drink choices.
The market has expanded rapidly thanks to big price cuts, and the surprising success of text messaging, now a pastime beloved of love-struck teenagers.
The market has expanded since then so that there are more than 200 mutual funds and roughly a half-dozen exchange-traded funds that invest using one or more social or environmental criteria.
MBIA, and its peers like Ambac Financial Group, traditionally operated in the somewhat routine business of insuring municipal bonds but expanded into the mortgage market as the housing boom swelled and began writing insurance on mortgage-related instruments that turned sour en masse when the bubble burst.
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If that works, the market will be expanded to cover the whole country.
But once the services had to compete for labor in a free market, they expanded the benefits that Kristof now hails.
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It has achieved sustainable growth and its market cap has expanded considerably.
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Among the proposed reforms: slashing the number of banking regulators from five entities to three, giving the Fed expanded powers to deal with market crises, creating a new federal commission to set mortgage-origination standards, and establishing an optional federal charter for insurance firms.
And, many of them have expanded into new areas and taken market leadership there too.
Marriott said he first realized the true importance of the international market when his company expanded into Asia.
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Due to this program, the solar energy market in Japan has expanded considerably in terms of availability and efficiency in distribution.
After the acquisition of NetLogic, Broadcom has been able to expand its potential addressable market by leveraging its expanded product portfolio.
By pushing back the deadline several times, Congress expanded the window in which the market would be enticing buyers, and borrowing demand from future months.
The report, commissioned by the cruise industry, showed that Scotland lagged behind the growth rate of the wider northern European market, which has expanded recently at nearly 10% per year.
Ahren's top holding is Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) of Budweiser fame, which has expanded its U.S. market share from 46.6% to 52.1% since 1998 despite the onslaught of specialty beers.
After capturing their home market, the Lius expanded nationally by buying up moribund state feed mills -- Hope has acquired some 25 to date -- and streamlining operations, largely through management shake-ups and layoffs of up to 50% of staff.
The high medical costs in some PCIPs could also portend higher costs of funding expanded high risk pools as part of market-oriented reforms.
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