By having a comprehensive testing platform and a highly capable team, Taboola has a good chance to produce appreciable gains in various KPI for many months after launch.

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The research vehicle is a testing platform aimed at the development of systems capable of enhancing the driver's perception of his or her environment, assisting in the decision-making process and improving overall driving skills.

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Kickstarter and Indiegogo are both crowdfunding platforms, where users are able to share their ideas and donate funding to those they like. uTest is a crowdsourced software testing platform, giving developers a chance to sample their products on users.

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We need such information to fulfill our vision for the house to be a flexible platform for testing and user feedback of new student-developed smarter living technologies.

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The Microsoft-owned messaging platform has started testing what amounts to a video voicemail feature on OS X, Android and iOS, something that had already been hinted at in its updated TOS. Why those operating systems at first, without any word about Windows or Windows Phone, we're unsure.

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While Toshiba has shipped tablet PCs for years and is now testing the waters of an embedded platform, the Archos 9 tablet PC crowns a new line that includes several non-PC tablets sold by the company, including a 5" tablet powered by Android and a 7" media tablet based on the company's proprietary UI build on Linux.

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With a great data system and assessments in place along with a large user base, the platform will be able to start to do A-B testing between different videos to be able to personalize learning for each student.

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With 850, 000 sellers worldwide, Etsy is already testing out this concept with Etsy Wholesale, a b-to-b platform to link retailers with national chains.

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