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.
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 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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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.
But it could get there as an "open services development platform, " which Stahlman believes is the future of enterprise computing.
"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.
So, are Google and Apple successful because of the platform or because of the services and products around that platform?
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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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Ms Coyle said that there was no reason why companies, such as Sky, should not charge for services on the platform.
Back in the summer, Facebook, which started the app trend a few years ago, announced it was integrating Spotify and other media services into its platform.
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.
One final note for IT departments: Dell wants to make it easy for you to deploy their products at your company, and they offer a variety of optional enterprise services like Trusted Platform Module for BitLocker data encryption, static imaging and asset tagging, and custom images.
Roku will use the new capital to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well as content packages.
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 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.
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.
Since then, Ning has becoming more like Facebook with services like an application platform.
Tesco plans to launch additional digital music services from the WE7 platform in the coming months.
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As the digital base expands, it will become easier for the company to market these advanced services that require digital platform.
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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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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.
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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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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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).
Unlike other e-commerce platforms, Rakuten offers a host of value-added services to merchants on its platform.
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It also offers application performance services, on-demand managed services and business performance management services via its EdgePlatform technological platform.
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