Platform-based businesses, business that enable people (developers, customers, opinion formers) at low cost, are having a huge effect on the world around us.
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That regulators are willing to breathe life into these intermediaries implies they do not recognize the platform-based competition between Google and Amazon for product searches.
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This would presumably be in the form of a browser-based web conferencing platform based on an open-source platform (and would not require the installation of any software).
Infochimps, already providing a cloud-based platform for data-science-as-a-service, announced the integration of Storm and Kafka.
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The equity-based platform will allow entrepreneurs to make a one-time pitch to all kinds of investors, including those accredited and non-accredited by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The firm also joined the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex), a web-based platform and registry where companies report on CSR-related initiatives around business and labor practices, health and safety, and the environment.
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Regardless, we're sure that the N900's active fan-base will deliver a MeeGo update outside of official channels, especially since the N900 is already being used as a platform for ARM-based MeeGo development.
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First off, as "webOS" implies, apps written for the platform are web-based -- HTML, JavaScript, that sort of stuff -- but unlike Apple's original vision for the iPhone, Palm's going to include libraries that allow devs to tap in to the Pre's hardware capabilities and interact closely with services exposed by the operating system.
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There is a need for a platform that is user centric for application management, a possibility of your different devices connecting to a web-based platform, so the device is not as important.
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Since then, he has transformed the service, which was initially launched in 2006 as a fee-based videoconferencing platform for desktops, into a social-media tool used on everything from laptops to smartphones and tablets.
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According to Fake, Findery can be described as a location-based story-telling platform.
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You might remember Zipwhip from its SMS-enabled espresso machine, but the outfit's hoping a new feature added to its cloud-based text-messaging platform will catch your attention this time around.
The San Francisco-based communication platform launched Twitter 101 Friday, a how-to for businesses to use the service effectively.
Scribe Online is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) integration platform that is multi-tenant based, enabling a on-premise to on-premise, on-premise to cloud, and cloud to cloud integration of CRM and enterprise systems.
The company has created a proprietary text-to-video platform that analyzes and understands text-based web content and automatically generates a video clip with a computer generated voice-over and visual effects.
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Iridium offers an open development platform for custom location-based solutions providing real time tracking.
The live opera stream is the first web-based platform for streaming classical productions from the Austrian capital.
The incident happened this morning on an oil production platform owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy.
With Bougues Telecom in France, they are launching full pay TV VOD anywhere on their network also on an Intel-based platform.
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The result, he says, is the ability to deploy new applications at one-tenth the infrastructure cost of a traditional server-based platform.
According to Samsung, KNOX is a new Android-based platform designed from the ground up with security in mind to address the shortcomings of the current open source Android platform.
The tablets are coming from a wide range of computer manufacturers, with the Atom-based platform being used in devices from Evolve III, Fujitsu, Lenovo, Motion Computing, Razer and Viliv.
As a young startup launching a cloud-based platform called Clio, we needed to select which mobile client(s) to support and decided to skip the Research In Motion BlackBerry.
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In December, Sony and Matsushita Electric Industrial (nyse: MC - news - people ), known for its Panasonic products, announced a partnership to develop a Linux-based platform for the home.
OpenGamma, a startup which has so far received two rounds of funding from Accel Partners and FirstMark Capital, is creating a open-source-based platform for trading and risk analytics software to support front office applications.
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Faster load times, with a new HTML5-based platform.
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For instance, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America helped CI and other partners to launch the Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for Business, a web-based platform that provides information on the highest priority sites globally for conservation.
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Networking among these organisations was facilitated through a special web-based platform and a number of training opportunities (webinars and video tutorials) were provided to build their capacities to use the Internet and social media for health and HIV prevention education.
Sadly, there's no indication these X10s will have anything other than the dusty Android 1.6-based platform they've been running everywhere since their global launch, so get ready to travel back in time if you end up cross-shopping this with the Captivate.
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