And somewhat serendipitously, Nintendo also pulled an Apple in one other less impressive, but humorous way.
Winnick, a former bond trader with Drexel Burnham, became a fiber czar serendipitously.
Sandoz chemists discovered Zelmac serendipitously in the late 1980s while looking for chemicals that might improve memory.
Gale and Hynes arrived in South Korea serendipitously, without prior experience in Asia.
According to Samir Hanna, Vice President, Consumer Products, it was started serendipitously.
In the late 1970s Harvard Medical School researcher Joel Habener serendipitously discovered a hormone in monkfish called GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide).
As they were about to dig in, a taxi driver serendipitously arrived, was seduced by the aroma and bought the sandwich for five cents.
Wherever fish and chips were serendipitously coupled, both pre-date Lees and Malin.
These reported changes and seemingly unrelated events that often occur serendipitously, can provide powerful opportunities for new heroic stories to be told.
Some spaces focus on people in similar industries or with similar objectives, and new ideas, connections, or other business benefits may arise serendipitously.
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BA's cost-cutting was a tactical response to all this and to a much-predicted downturn, but it was soon to lead, somewhat serendipitously, to a strategy.
First, perhaps serendipitously, higher public spending is already on the way.
Thus, the common idea that the Web is crammed full of videos that become serendipitously popular out of the blue turns out to be something of a fairy tale.
The drug works by tripping a cellular switch that was discovered serendipitously by scientists studying an unrelated drug--Rapamune, a Wyeth chemical used to suppress the immune systems of organ transplant patients.
"Serendipitously, Bubble Wrap and vacuum tubes met, " says Hickey.
As people relied on their Daily Me instead of traditional media sources, the dystopians feared that people would only consume information that reinforced their existing beliefs, rather than being serendipitously exposed to content that challenged or conflicted with their existing perceptions.
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To get to your question, the antidepressant potential of ketamine was discovered serendipitously in patients receiving the drug for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, a miserable condition characterized by severe pain, swelling and changes in the skin.
In studying which advertising system to introduce, Mr. Silbermann declined to go into detail, but one feature the company plans to unveil this year is called "suggestions, " which is a way for people who use Pinterest regularly to serendipitously discover other content, said Pinterest executives.
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