If you approach crowdfunding in a strategic manner, find the right partner and platform, and put together a great campaign, it could give your business a well-deserved boost.
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They can partner with software platform providers and network management providers to bring together three, critical M2M elements: the platform, network management and network provision.
"AOL and Tim Armstrong represented a platform and partner for Arianna to greatly accelerate her ambitions of industry dominance for The Huffington Post, " says Harman.
Very importantly, pick the right platform service partner.
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Many support Civic Platform's coalition partner, the agrarian Polish People's Party (PSL), which controls the labour and agriculture ministries.
This makes them a highly unreliable platform with which to partner, and they have lost most if not all trust and credibility they had with page admins.
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In Germany's election in September, the issue poses the greatest threat to the Free Democratic Party, Merkel's junior coalition partner which has a pro-business platform.
"Intel has been a great partner as we work to develop a platform that supports an in-home gateway and client architecture, " said Steve Reynolds, senior vice president of Customer Premise Equipment for Comcast.
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Announcement of a major OEM partner for battery systems on a global auto platform.
For one thing, it shares a car underbody with Chrysler's Italian partner, Fiat SpA, instead of a platform designed for off-roading.
Making sense of that activity is the province of Union Metrics, a measurement and analytics service and preferred partner of the fast-growing social blogging platform.
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In addition to Xbox Entertainment Studios creating content that will highlight what's possible and demonstrate the capability of the Xbox platform, Microsoft will continue to partner with content creators, networks, aggregators and advertisers to "pioneer the future of TV, " says Tellem.
Yorkshire lost opener Andrew Gale for 12, but partner Craig White and Anthony McGrath built a solid platform with a partnership of 63.
Tom Daley had been due to make his first competitive appearance on Friday in the 10m synchro platform, but missed out after his partner Blake Aldridge's suffered a broken nose after he was involved in an alleged nightclub fracas in Southampton last Friday.
Newsroom minds are racing with ideas, as our partner, MAZ, continues to develop its elegant publishing platform.
Through its Partner Program each year, the Google-owned video platform pays out millions of dollars in shared advertising revenue to its most popular video creators.
"As a key Android partner and smartphone brand, HTC continues to bring new innovation to the platform, " said Andy Rubin, VP engineering at Google.
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The Yandex browser platform has through a technological partnership with a key long term partner been expanded to incorporate Opera Software's Turbo technology, which allows to boost the browser's page loading capacity even with a slow connection.
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Sounds like he should partner with Roozt, to have his headsets and energy drink featured on its platform, which aggregates and features products made by social entrepreneurs.
It is drawn by Apple into a different innovation forum, the one described above where Samsung has to focus on the software, the platform and the services it will deliver, or which it will partner to get delivered.
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This is a unique promotion that taps into its power as a content, community and commerce platform, and we are excited to have them on board as a partner.
Online education platform Courserahas added 17 new universities to its ranks, doubling the number of partner institutions.
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Deezer's push to introduce more apps to the platform continues next month with a Music Hack Day at their Paris HQ and API partner support for The Next Web's forthcoming Hack Battle event.
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GitHub does seem interested in becoming some kind of universal collaboration platform, but if they want to move into serious visuals there are other sites to partner with, like Dribbble or Sortfolio.
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"So instead of building a phone, which seems like a desperate move, Facebook should partner with every operating system and carrier and hardware maker it can to try to embed this social platform within every mobile platform, " Blodget said.
On our platform, the audience knows if a post is written by a staffer, a contributor or a marketing partner.
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While it did partner with Spotify and others in music, news, and video to demonstrate these new capabilities today, the new platform is by no means limited to the launch partners.
If it can find companies that help it to design, build, deploy, and manage the mobility platform for its customers in a way that will deliver quick benefits to customers, Levy will acquire or partner with them.
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