Leading brands and major retailers use tools from the company: where-to-buy, product search engines, shopping engines and Facebook platform services.
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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.
And at salesforce.com (CRM), Holleran help lead its transition from a Small and Medium-Sized Business sales force automation SaaS company to one more focused on global enterprise Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications and cloud platform services.
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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.
In addition to Wind River's Android software platform and services and support, Clarion is using Wind River FAST to test for device software quality and user experience.
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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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The reliance on Facebook is a notable risk and is motivating Zynga to develop its own gaming platform to deliver services directly to users.
The Alliance forms a cooperation that aims at enhancing the Smart TV experience by creating a non-proprietary ecosystem for application developers to create attractive, platform-independent services.
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"A car is a platform for delivering services, and it is in the combination of the product and service that revenue and profit is being made, " she said.
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.
Our financial and operational performance for the second quarter demonstrates the strong value we provide our customers and the sizeable market opportunity for our data and information management software platform and related services.
The OpenTablet 10 integrates easily with OpenServices, OpenPeak's cloud services platform and device management system, to allow comprehensive device management to service providers, including the ability to push applications, perform firmware updates and lock devices.
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The respondents estimate that it will take approximately three years for cloud platform and infrastructure services to be firmly placed within the growth stage, and at least two years for software services to reach that stage.
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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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It is drawn by Apple into a different innovation forum, the one described above where Samsung has to focus on the software, the platform and the services it will deliver, or which it will partner to get delivered.
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In an effort to modernize its citizen services and to consolidate legacy systems that had been developed over the years to support them, the city embarked on an initiative to develop a modern citizen services platform (CSP) with Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
The Organization has been deeply engaged also with the creation of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), a vital platform for action to protect biodiversity.
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.
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.
Over the past decade there has been growing international agreement that the system for linking science and policy in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services needed further improvement, resulting ultimately in the process for creating an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
Synacor is a cloud based television services provider and its platform enables cable, satellite and telecom companies to deliver entertainment services and apps to their subscribers.
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"We really view it as creating a new computing platform, with business services and big computing farms" powering Yahoo!
We hope be a catalyst for the industry, by bringing together an unrivaled combination of platform, products and services.
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But it could get there as an "open services development platform, " which Stahlman believes is the future of enterprise computing.
It aims to wire up buildings, at no charge, with the ultimate broadband pipeline--fiber optics--as a platform for selling additional services.
Landlines are the platform for many public services, such as emergency response.
"We want to leverage that BBM platform to create new services that are really value-added services that people, companies, whatever, are really willing to pay for, " Mr. Heins said.
"If you are an insurance company and are starting a service for your claims adjusters, the Services Delivery Platform software stack will know how to integrate it with your existing e-business infrastructure, transcode it, and deliver content to these in-car devices, " Desai said.
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