Several of the slides mentioned upstart company Jyve, which develops applications for the Skype platform (for example, I use their Skype business card on my blog).
Its effect is to lock consumers into one company's digital ecosystem, making it impossible for Kindle users to buy e-books from the existing Waterstones platform, for example.
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Google's Android Honeycomb platform, for example, which was demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, will contribute competition to future smart phone development.
Market leaders have been doing that for decades. gyro client DAF built its entire marketing platform around service in the nineties, for example.
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VMware aspires to be for data centers what Microsoft is for PCs, both providing a software platform to run web applications (like, for example, Google Docs) and also managing the hardware that powers them.
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Take, for example, Work Market, an enterprise platform for managing contract labor.
For example, Dearing mentioned that Heroku, a platform service for developers building and deploying apps in the cloud, benefited by applying strategies and tactics to the developer market that they had observed in the consumer software market.
For example, is on premise or cloud the better platform for service management software?
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In those early days it was typically about a platform to seek better answers to a problem, so Quora, for example, could be counted as an early intelligence-outsourcing platform.
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For example, Android, the operating system, is a platform for devices and phone.
The Book Sprints project, for example, used the platform to write and produce Introduction to the Command Line in two days.
One good example for the SAI Platform from Coca-Cola is how the company has been connecting the sustainability dots between biodiversity and water in its support for wetlands projects in Europe.
Killing the virus with, for example, formaldehyde, leaves a platform that presents gp120 to the immune system much as a live virus does.
For example, Groupon uses a sophisticated technology platform to target relevant deals, which are based on subscriber preferences.
So, today on the platform, individual investors can invest the same way that, for example, large institutions and endowments have learned to invest, which is to really diversify well, to be able to think about the appropriate risk levels that they want to incur, and to act in a consistent manner that allows them to not try to time the market, but grow with the market.
Our latest grant to NPR, for example, supports a new social media and reporting platform to help facilitate conversation and community around global health issues.
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And then you subtract from that the burning that has been done with the platform and the oil on the surface with the controlled burn, for example -- the application of dispersants, skimming operations and in situ.
Motion controls, for example, would be a natural extension of the Oculus platform.
It would like, for example, to attract more members to its Xetra trading platform, and to the Eurex derivatives market, which it owns jointly with the Swiss stock exchange.
Nearly half of Blackstone's deals since 2009, for example, have been stakes in start-up or "platform" companies that it will slowly grow through deals.
To sell ads on their mobile apps, for example, news organizations must give some of the revenue to the platform owner.
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For example, General Electric has developed the a home energy management platform that uses a ZigBee network protocols to establish communication channels between household appliances.
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Like TiVO for example -- we were the first to bring TiVO to the mobile platform.
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For example RIM could still create compelling B2B and B2E experiences with its QNX platform in healthcare, retail and automotive.
For example t his week Kickstarter announced it will never become an equity investment platform, and in Europe Seeds insists on its projects having a strong social dimension.
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And whilst obviously Guardian Books started off with an advantage because it could access the vast amount of data collected by the Guardian and Observer newspaper websites, Sidwell said that they have an opportunity now to gather even more information, for example, data on how people read books, what apps they use on what platform can help develop how they distribute books.
She explained the varied uses for Skillshare, one example being students who are using Skillshare as a self-driven educational platform after leaving college early, and filled me in on their recent efforts toward supporting teachers and providing even better productive learning experiences for members.
The IT arm of NYSE Euronext announced beta of Capital Markets Community Platform, its cloud computing offering this week, and the effort, on the surface, is a good example for other vertical markets to follow.
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