An open platform spurs the creation of new services and applications, stimulating subscriber growth and so encouraging the birth of still more sites.
However, if the goal is to promote innovation through new products and services, or even job creation, increasing the number of small businesses is not the most direct route.
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Later in the year there is likely to be more job creation in professional services like accounting and management consulting centers such as New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
If successful, at its utmost the business could change not just the way companies sell products and services, but also their creation and production, and servicing in effect, a new type of enterprise software platform.
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If one quarter of enterprises are engaging in this type of activity we have truly entered a new era of cyber defense that will entail the creation of new services and products to feed the demand: products that focus on identifying attack methodologies and thwarting them.
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Society therefore advances economically when it reduces tax and regulatory barriers to the creation of goods and services.
Economists tell us that outsourcing has driven down the cost of everything from the clothes and household items we buy at WalMart to the cost of social marketing, ad creation and even telephone services.
Here most production is performed by groups of individuals organized into companies specializing in the creation of particular goods and services.
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By contrast, Apotheker seems to be focusing on the creation of higher-value services that the company can offer large companies, small and mid-sized businesses, and consumers.
Not only have both countries tried to protect manufacturing jobs with employment-protection laws, but a tangle of red tape also discourages the creation of new jobs in services.
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.
This will stop--or at least greatly slow down--innovation, as corporations and individuals hesitate to explore new ideas for fear of getting punished (or regulated to death) by litigation for any misstep, no matter how slight, in the creation of new products and services.
The magic of the rise of the car was in the creation of entire industries, businesses, services and social behaviors.
At the same time that the opportunity for mobile traditional PC services such as internet browsing, email, content creation and content consumption sparked imaginations.
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"Entertainment is being transformed more right now than ever before, " says Marc, referring to the increasing popularity of services like HBO Go and Netflix along with the creation of new, digital on-demand offerings like the NBA League Pass.
It also offers graphics and digital services such as online photo sharing and custom photo card creation.
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These have hampered the creation of many of the new jobs in services that have sprung up in other countries.
In business, innovation is the act of applying knowledge to the creation of new processes, products, and services that have value for at least one of your stakeholder groups.
While at Microsoft, Irving was responsible for creating and leading a global development and operations organization of more than 4, 000 employees in the creation and operation of Microsoft's global online services, launching several new products, including MSN Messenger and growing Hotmail from 7 million to 290 million users.
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It decided to restrict the creation of foundations to those licensed by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission to ensure they comply with all the necessary regulations.
The mobile money industry has also triggered a new wave of development, inspiring the creation of many secondary businesses, ranging from innovative financial services to the provision of utilities and digital goods.
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.
The Obama administration's top-priority plan to shutter the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, suffered another major setback in Congress last month as the House Armed Services Committee approved by a unanimous 59-0 vote legislation that would prevent creation of a replacement prison in the United States.
"Our ability to create the ideal mix of device and cloud resources has resulted in a platform that completely changes the economics of television content creation, " said David McElhatten , senior vice president, studio and services for ActiveVideo Networks.
History teaches us that the strongest and most sustainable economic recoveries resulted from entrepreneurs who innovations spurred the creation of new markets as well as those whose ideas provided the basic services necessary to support everyday life in a new, more efficient way.
The corporation structure has thus made possible the creation and widespread distribution of an ever-expanding cornucopia of new products and services.
Like Instagram and unlike other video services such as Viddy and SocialCam, Vine offers users the opportunities to actively edit their creation and through that transformation, create art.
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Finally, as more of the economy moves towards higher-quality products that are personalized, we also expect to see the emergence of new services that are social by design to address the large worldwide problems we face in job creation, education and health care.
Over time, though, the creation of a resilient European aerospace enterprise that understands fighters, missiles, satellites and services as well as the big U.S. players do will help Pentagon purchasers hold down the costs of preserving the peace.
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