The startup developed an API that gives developers direct access to its recipe database.
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Google keeps its search formula under a lock and key the same way Coca Cola safeguards its recipe.
And despite a tax hike, the company refuses to budge, claiming that it will not change its recipe.
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But having already launched successfully in Chicago and Boston, the Hailo team is confident its recipe will work anywhere.
During the three months that Veggie Booty was off the shelves, he tweaked its recipe, adding "cane powder" (unrefined sugar) to reduce the Booty's bitterness and make it more appealing to a wider audience.
Another such story, related to me by Steve Blank in a recent interview, recounts a desperate situation for another pioneering Silicon Valley electronics manufacturer: Its recipe for doping (preparing) silicon wafers had stopped working.
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As magic is all about secrets, you might expect magicians' tricks would gain protection under the principle of trade secrets - this is how Coca-Cola guards its recipe and how KFC protects the spices it uses on its chicken, for example.
Nearly every family bottled its own recipe, which led to many substandard wines.
Davenports Tea Room in Northwich was praised for its secret recipe scones, extensive range of loose leaf tea, decor and bone china cups.
Although MySQL and its underlying recipe are available free, any added code built around the open-source product must also be made open source.
Their batteries, outlined in Scientific Reports, are made up of five separate layers, each with its own recipe - together measuring just 0.5mm thick.
Last year, for instance, IKEA touched off a controversy in Singapore when it changed its meatball recipe to make the product softer, according to Makansutra, an Asian food culture blog.
Because this procedure, called compilation, is hard to reverse, firms can sell a program without revealing the instructions that underlie it rather as Coca-Cola can market soft drinks without giving away its secret recipe.
Its the classic recipe for success for a high technology product, boasts van Cuylenburg.
It's a forgiving recipe, emerging from the oven with its prettily placed apples glazed with caramel and perched on a golden pastry ring.
My go-to Saturday morning recipe is an old one that owes its pleasant acidic edge to a shot of white vinegar a substitute for what would have been sour milk in thriftier times, when cooks were loathe to let any ingredient go to waste.
That it went along even though it could only begin full-fledged work and training at its mammoth Super Terminal 1 on July 2 -- surely a recipe for disaster -- is testimony to how operational realities and common sense were set aside in pursuit of the July date.
Its a small-batch bourbon that, in its modern incarnation dates back to 1987, although family-lore traces the recipe to the 1830s.
As the head of Google's antiwebspam team, he's rewriting the complex set of rules for ranking Web pages based on their relevance to a given query, which is the company's DNA, its single most important product and a trade secret more closely guarded than the recipe for Coke.
Its first client, the French biotech firm Cytomics, hired the group for a recipe to synthesize a cancer-fighting compound.
"Splash-proof Xperia Tablet S is designed for real-life use around the home and outdoors, so there's no need to worry about casual water spillages if you're checking a recipe in the kitchen with wet hands, " it said in its marketing materials.
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In the case of Delphi, GM spun off its parts business but made the new company take the old, high cost union contracts--a recipe for disaster.
Though this recipe has been adapted and simplified for the home cook, the result is no less satisfying than its inspiration.
Two weeks ago, social recipe curation website Punchfork announced it had been acquired by Pinterest, and that it will soon shut down its website, API and mobile apps.
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