The Report gives a new perspective on the importance of engineering to development and is intended as a platform for better understanding of engineering, an extraordinarily diverse and pervasive activity that has been central to human progress since the invention of the wheel.

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First Round has an engineering team that has built a platform for connecting the entrepreneurs in its companies both offline and online.

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"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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These platform technologies will leverage advances in control systems and process engineering, big data and cloud computing, broadband communications, and cybersecurity.

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Samsung is also saying that the KNOX platform will retain full compatibility with Android and the ecosystem while engineering fundamental security and management enhancements.

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K. Venkatesh Prasad, head of the advanced engineering team at Ford, talked about the car as a global platform in which people spend some 2 billion commuter hours a week, which can give people custom information, and act as collective sensors of movement or weather.

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Roku will use the new capital to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well as content packages.

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