Before Apple bought it, Morgenthaler says, the plans at Siri were to build out a platform of services in e-commerce and access to a wide range of services on the Internet.
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So, are Google and Apple successful because of the platform or because of the services and products around that platform?
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Over 500 delegates, including from most of the 105 Member States of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), attended the first plenary meeting of the platform (IPBES-1), held in Bonn, Germany this week.
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.
For emerging economies and developing countries, wireless broadband looks likely to be the platform of choice, bringing services like micro-banking, telemedicine and fast sharing of information in local languages to communities, no matter how isolated.
We hope be a catalyst for the industry, by bringing together an unrivaled combination of platform, products and services.
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An open platform spurs the creation of new services and applications, stimulating subscriber growth and so encouraging the birth of still more sites.
Throughout the IYB steady progress was made towards the establishment of an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) on the model of the IPCC, pivotal in assessing the science and raising global awareness of climate change.
Businesses are being launched on the mobile platform to provide a wide range of services from medical advice and diagnosis, to pharmaceutical authentication, to payment and finance systems.
In addition to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, recruited in 2005 from Wal-Mart, other candidates include Robbie Bach, president of the company's entertainment and devices division, and Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platform services division.
In addition to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, recruited in 2005 from Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ), other candidates include Robbie Bach, president of the company's entertainment and devices division, and Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's platform services division.
The meetings also identified possible directions forward in achieving the conservation and sustainable and equitable use of biodiversity, including the establishment of an independent intergovernmental science-policy platform on biodiversity and ecosystem services (IPBES) and the development of an agreed regime for accessing biodiversity and for equitably sharing its benefits.
Unlike services like Facebook and Twitter, which invited third-party developers to build on top of their platform and then turned around and offered competing services, App.net is conceived as a pure API a set of programming instructions that let developers access a real-time feed.
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In essence, Microsoft wants to create a Windows Internet platform with a range of related applications and services that suit it better than non-Windows Internet devices.
This makes Locu a powerful platform for the creation of a host of services that will complement and become value-added to already existing local-based businesses like Yelp and Foursquare.
The first is about BusinessUSA, the one-stop shop and online platform where businesses of all sizes can access services and information to help them grow and hire that is launching in early 2012.
The stock case for this resides in Amazon, which is continually investing in distribution centers, new products and its Amazon Web Services platform to the detriment of margins, and shareholders just keep paying 71.6 times forward earnings.
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Although Google makes money off Android only through the services it provides through the platform, a large portion of Android devices, for instance in China, use home-grown services from which Google earns no revenues, and has no control.
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Current collaboration with DIVERSITAS includes common preparatory work for the first plenary of the International Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Just as important: bragging rights to be among the first independent developers to show off just what kinds of services Google's mobile platform will support.
As mobiles gain greater computing power and smartphones further proliferate in India, the emergence of such services on the mobile platform, and their corresponding economic benefits, will accelerate.
The new product platform provides a suite of solutions for applications and services across the entire the power distribution process, ranging from power generation, transmission and distribution, to utilization and automation.
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With the purchase of Fundamo, a mobile financial services platform provider in developing economies, Visa is launching a product that will help it further extend its reach into developing countries.
Casares sees his Lemon on its way to ten million users and the platform as a stepping stone to a set of new services that can help brands connect with consumers.
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He ran on a platform that promised greater efficiency in the provision of government services (mostly in public education, health and transportation), and more security in a city where crime has increased tremendously.
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We will continue to develop a broad range of services that complement our core search platform, including maps and personal services on the desktop and on mobile platforms, emphasizing collaboration with our strategic partners.
LinkedIn is the appropriate platform for sales of business-to-business products or services, Francis says.
WE7 has a great team and a good technology platform from which we can launch a range of digital music services in the future.
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Unlike other e-commerce platforms, Rakuten offers a host of value-added services to merchants on its platform.
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The real carrot is the managed services and software on top of a Cloud platform and application layer.
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