Last spring an announcement from the platform team at Twitter not-at-all-subtly suggested developers of third party clients should find something else to do, and today a list of changes to its API turns that whisper into a firm nudge.
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Twitter took another big step in making its platform brand-friendly through its announcement of a new Ads API today, which will allow partners to manage marketing campaigns much more fully on the site.
Moments after the announcement of the new social platform, I was already seeing what articles had been read by friends when I was at the CNN site, and what movies were liked by my social circle on IMDB.
It also announced it would open its Mobile Developer Platform to third-party applications, mirroring an earlier announcement from Google.
Today's announcement paves the way for continued innovation on the webOS platform and on LG's roadmap of innovative solutions for many years to come, while allowing HP to focus its resources on strategic business opportunities such as cloud computing.
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The four-pronged announcement includes a mobile app, a revamped money-planner platform that allows a CFP to co-view your money-center (think Google Docs for your bank account) and the news that the company has registered as an investment adviser with the SEC (RIA).
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Announcement of a major OEM partner for battery systems on a global auto platform.
The announcement comes just a few weeks after AOL debuted an advertiser-oriented tech platform, known as a demand side platform, or DSP.
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As my colleague James McQuivey summed it up recently, this platform war is also expanding into the TV space even though Apple did not make any specific announcement on this topic yet.
's announcement Monday that it purchased Skiff, a firm started by Hearst to create a technology platform for e-readers.
The party said on their website that the latest announcement was aimed "squarely at the SDP's efforts to harness the new technology to advance its platform in the upcoming general elections".
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