Nairobi has exported two notable innovations: M-PESA (which began life in London) and Ushahidi, a non-profit platform for crowdsourcing information during disasters.
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Furthermore, we believe significant growth and profit opportunities for this platform still lie ahead.
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Weaving in their experiences with Team Rubicon, POS REP is also a universal mobile platform for non-profit, government and private sector organizations that support veteran reintegration.
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Although NGOs and governments administer many of the emerging services, there are also myriad for-profit enterprises that, using mobiles as a platform, are meeting needs ordinarily considered appropriate for the state to provide.
They are inviting public figures, incumbent and would-be legislators, non-profit organizations and concerned citizens to sign onto the Platform at peacethroughstrength.com .
After all, the more appealing a Tegra 3 platform becomes, the more opportunity for NVIDIA to profit.
According to Mini, that's about how long it took to profit from the research and development that went into building and delivering a platform.
What this conclusion misses is that, in a platform market, having dominant market share is critical to maintaining long-term profit share.
"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.
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