And the matter of building products from a common base or platform is most complex.
Google Wallet is the first mobile payments service to really show promise in adding capabilities like the above on top of a base payment platform by bringing their ecosystem of local services like Google Places and Offers into the fold.
With over 26, 000 restaurants in North America on the OpenTable platform and an installed base of equipment in each, not only is it a hassle for restaurants to decamp from the service, but also it would be very challenging for the next OpenTable to successfully enter the marketplace.
This is no doubt a good move by Time Warner as it gives the company a platform to tap the increasing base of users looking to consume traditional media entertainment online.
With a great data system and assessments in place along with a large user base, the platform will be able to start to do A-B testing between different videos to be able to personalize learning for each student.
In the absence of size, Benioff is hustling to convince the world that Salesforce's technology is the optimum base--or platform, a.k.a.
What is further interesting to note is that Comcast now has close to 21 million digital TV subscribers implying that close to 95% of its pay-TV subscriber base is on digital platform.
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Kanner and his company will now be able to tap into an established loyalty platform that allows a set user base to access ScoreBig from an earn and redemption perspective, giving MileagePlus a new distribution channel, but also opening ScoreBig to consumers at large.
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As Android is free, and the current number 2, iOS, is not even available for licensing, any of the Android makers who launches product on other platforms migrates to a tiny system which has under 4% sales, and for any new platform, even less in installed base.
According to the report, 7 Days has grown its bookings an average of 140% every year since 2006, monitors customer satisfaction, offers a loyalty program like US and European chains, and does the social networking thing. 7 Days uses its customer base and online booking platform to cross-sell airline tickets and car rental serives, so it benefits from a one-stop shopping convenience.
Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp has focused on building the company's user base for its minimalist blogging platform while leaving for later the question of earning money.
Building the subscriber base, and with it expanding their platform, is the primary goal of these companies, which includes the likes of TiVo and Boxee, and Roku has eked out an enviable position in the crowded field, Hargreaves explained.
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They are hoping these tools will make the platform interesting on its own as they build their user base.
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He likens the situation to the early days of iOS, when smart developers recognized that it was a platform worth building for despite the then-small user base.
Billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra is campaigning on a platform stressing the need to upgrade Thailand's technology skills base.
Then the New Zealand number eight drove from the base of a scrum to give Blues another great attacking platform.
No one is really thinking of cars as an intelligent mobile platform that at any moment in time has an enormous active user base.
Skype is a global brand Microsoft has completely rewritten the code base already and made Skype into a scalable durable software platform that is growing and profitable.
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The overall structure shows a long base, a sharp breakout in October, a nice consolidation platform, the 50-day moving average and trend line that held, and this stock is moving up.
The biggest project, to the tune of around 30 million euros, is the reconstruction of the abandoned 19th-century military base south of the Old Town into a 21st-century cultural platform.
PapayaMobile opened up its platform to developers last June and has seen a 375% increase in its user base since then.
Sure, the Xbox 360 can be righteous and cool with hard-core gamers, but this is not a sufficiently large user base to recoup the magnitude of investment Microsoft has made in its gaming platform.
This may however be offset by the dwindling base of Nextel subscribers who have also been a big source for the Sprint platform net adds in recent quarters.
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"Sprint and RIM have been strong partners for more than a dozen years, and we have an extremely loyal base of BlackBerry customers who will appreciate the features of the new BlackBerry 10 platform, " said David Owens, vice president-Product Development, Sprint.
It appears that while the user base growth is slowing down, Facebook is focusing on pushing more ads on its platform and marketing their value to advertisers.
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Unlike the iPod (but like the iPhone), Apple TV will be cross-platform from its first day on the market, continuing Apple's embrace of the tremendous base of Windows users.
He also argued that the skills base already built up in the north east of Scotland in the energy sector provided a "platform from which the industry can develop".
As the digital base expands, it will become easier for the company to market these advanced services that require digital platform.
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