When it did, it found a fundamentally altered competitive landscape where the platform model had destroyed the traditional retail one.
In order to succeed in Asia, and in the global business, Hanson believe game companies will need to embrace the cross-platform model to deliver games for all levels of gamers, from newbies to hard-core users playing more than 22 hours per week.
For Spotify, the deal is the first collaboration with a carmaker and will be seen as a win for backers of the multi-platform subscription model.
My thesis is that if you purport to be a platform, your businss model needs to reflect your platform-ness.
The company has partly backtracked on its platform-only model by acquiring land in major cities to build warehouse space for distributors.
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ClearStory Data, a startup that has not revealed its capabilities, has declared that it will be in the business of providing a platform and user model that makes it easy and intuitive to find high value external data from numerous trusted sources and cross-pollinate this data with private and corporate data for fast, richer analysis.
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Each player sees the e-book as a cornerstone of its larger platform strategy and business model.
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The first UNESCO publication to be made available on the OER Platform is the UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education.
The modern platform and ecosystem business model is an Apple invention.
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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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Happily, any brand, ad, media platform, or consumer consumption model can be measured for engagement in this manner.
The usage on desktop is declining and Facebook is going to spend a major chunk of its resources in optimizing its business model on mobile platform.
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The social firm launched a new event stream platform that takes its existing model as a mobile app for users to share upcoming plans with each other and adds the ability to follow sports teams, schools, and other community fixtures like book shops to your stream.
For Twitter to be able to keep the navigational container of its mobile apps native and fast, but to have instantly updatable HTML 5 modules and JavaScript libraries embedded within, is a great model for a platform that can test and deploy these elements with a minimal disruption to users.
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Intel personal computing model, providing a platform on which many other companies can come up with countless variations.
The Finnish company on Thursday introduced the Nokia Asha 501 phone and the Asha platform that will run on the model.
Mike Lynch, Autonomy's CEO, points out that the IDOL platform does not rely on a model of content that must be maintained.
Now the Organization is developing its OER Platform, which will make the Model Curricula available as an open educational resource and share its adaptations by journalism schools.
BERLIN, GERMANY - Thursday, 25 April 2013 - Today, 6Wunderkinder, announces the arrival of Wunderlist Pro, the first premium model of the cross platform productivity app, that places the emphasis on team collaboration.
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This last point is particularly astonishing since Capriles ran on the platform of the social-democratic Brazilian model.
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Most of the magazine digital editions have been an attempt to move the print model wholesale to a new platform.
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The magic is not in a particular model but in the dynamics of platform competition.
They want to attract new customers for their platform, and want to transform their business model from software seller to support provider.
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Apple was the sole model for establishing a consumer technology platform.
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This in turn drives even more Facebook integrated mobile development, and in turn more mobile content to the Facebook platform to be monetized in their current media model.
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But as the platform-as-a-service delivery model grows, it will intensify the competition between large cloud service providers and enterprise software suppliers, which look to capture the growing, market, Gartner predicted.
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For instance, what if pharmaceutical companies, following a HealthMap or Ushahidi model, tracked on an open platform if and how a mapped health crisis was met with an intended drug response?
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If two traders are using the same model and one has a faster trading platform, he will make more money.
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Already we are seeing quite a few companies who started off as box manufactures shift their business model to one where they license their platform.
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