But the moment they aspired to enter the platform business themselves, they were branded as enemies.
The mortgage platform business was sold to Freddie Mac.
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Jurisdictions such as Bermuda and the Cayman Islands are good platforms for business activity, which is no different than a state like Delaware being a good platform for business activity.
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"We are providing a platform for business leaders and others concerned with the environment and corporate social responsibility to work together toward the common goal of ensuring the availability of natural resources, supporting social reforms, and at the same time securing the efficient delivery of supplies, " said Hau Lee, co-director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum.
This extensible business platform (iTunes) also came with a ready-made business ecosystem of creative partners and music marketing companies.
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Of course it can be daunting to tackle a new platform and adapt your business to it, particularly when the platform itself is evolving at a dizzying pace.
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The plan converts the 2010 a structure of five business segments based on technology platform to one of three business sectors based on business model.
Each player sees the e-book as a cornerstone of its larger platform strategy and business model.
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Choosing the right crowdfunding platform for your business or project can be an overwhelming process.
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"We really view it as creating a new computing platform, with business services and big computing farms" powering Yahoo!
The secret is in the ability to mold the social business platform to empower employees to produce material breakthroughs.
It is a fexible, cost-effective and proven delivery platform for providing business or consumer IT services over the Internet.
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Choosing the right platform for your business and using it well are crucial.
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If you think LinkedIn is a non-productive business platform for intelligent conversation and leads, social media is a waste of time.
The open standards of the web and its global reach make it an ideal platform for doing business in new ways.
Facebook provides a high-profile tool for company exposure and branding, and the wide reach of such a social platform can facilitate business networking.
Features such as location-based services, near field communications, augmented reality and an array of motion sensors deliver a platform ideal for business process innovation.
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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.
The modern platform and ecosystem business model is an Apple invention.
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ZoomTilt is a video creation platform where a business can pitch an idea for video content and ZoomTilt has a panel of judges that chose which concept moves forward.
"It is a real game-changer as it will provide a world-class digital infrastructure that will attract major foreign investment, create jobs, and provide a platform for local business start-ups, " she said.
Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
McInnis, like other employers at the conference including solar technology provider Namaste Solar and social business platform Brainpark, discussed the benefits and also the difficulties that come with a policy of complete workplace transparency and shared ownership.
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Transparency being the buzzword of the decade, John Armato, Sacramento, CA- based senior partner of Fleishman-Hillard agreed to tell us about how branding techniques used by much larger companies can be applied to the small business platform as well.
Unified, based in New York and San Francisco, touts its platform as a business-class service that allows brands and agencies to manage paid media campaigns across a wide variety of social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and others.
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They are writing a new playbook around content, device, and connectivity and that in turn places more and more importance on the interface and OS. But these elements are really about the broader development of a platform and ecosystem business model that Nick Vitalari and I describe in The Elastic Enterprise.
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And remember as you do that, the UltraViolet platform, like the business itself, is continually evolving.
ERGs must view themselves as a formidable advancement platform for talent and business development activity.
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Although the technologists were brilliant, the platform was killed for business reasons as too risky.
LinkedIn is the appropriate platform for sales of business-to-business products or services, Francis says.
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