Although it has integrated the product into its Outlook.com web email service, it will continue to offer Skype as a separate installable application on its new system, avoiding the risk of anti-competition complaints.
Mr. Crystal said his company has discussed iCloud with Apple, but not yet integrated it into its games.
Ellie has vertically integrated its production process in-house so it can turn around new designs in two to four weeks, which compares to eight to twelve weeks for larger brands, Geinke says.
The company has also integrated its CRM system, Salesforce.com, with it social media sites.
But with Siri, which Apple acquired only a little over a year ago and quickly integrated into its mobile operating system iOS, Apple has done what it has done many times before: By nailing the user experience, Apple once has again taken a technology that already existed and made it feel so natural that you wonder how you ever did things any other way.
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We expect Qualcomm to continue to benefit from the diversified set of customers it has managed to woo, banking on its broad portfolio of Snapdragon chips that includes both integrated and standalone processors.
Earlier this year, Ispat, the closest thing the world has to a global steel firm, made its first big American acquisition when it bought an integrated producer called Inland Steel.
Meanwhile, OpenText has integrated social capabilities that came from the Vignette acquisition to re-energize its social offering and make it part of an end-to-end content management solution.
Mr. Pope, 58 years old, has steadfastly defended the company's strategy of being vertically integrated, dismissing Continental's argument that it should separate its volatile hog-farming operations from its packaged-meats business and some international holdings.
In the last year, Digg has integrated its user accounts with Facebook and launched an effort called the "DiggBar" aimed at making it easier to take action on links shared through sites like Twitter.
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