For now, the Up platform is open only for iOS, though a company rep told us they're planning on adding Android too. (No exact ETA there, sorry.) At launch, there will be 10 apps on board, including notables like RunKeeper, Withings and MapMyFitness.
They also unveiled SkypeKit, to open up the platform to more consumer electronics applications.
Indiegogo first went after the indie film market before opening up their platform to other categories.
PapayaMobile opened up its platform to developers last June and has seen a 375% increase in its user base since then.
"They're opening up the platform to a much broader community of development, " said Krishna Subramanian, co-founder of mobile ad company Mobclix Inc.
Instead Facebook opened up the platform to companies like MOG and Rdio.
Cabulous, the mobile cab-hailing app, is rebranding as Flywheel and opening up its platform to allow rides from cars other than taxis, such as licensed black cars.
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Peek, the travel startup that provides bite-sized guides on the best things to do at travel destinations, is opening up its platform to users to share their travel experiences.
And he claimed two Italy throw-ins in quick succession to halt the hosts' momentum and help set up the platform for Wilkinson to open the scoring with a penalty.
Last night the music streaming service Spotify announced at a news conference in New York that it was opening up its platform so that customers could use various applications to enrich their listening experience.
Palm execs say their machine could also sync up with Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) forthcoming iPhone, if Apple opens up its platform to outsiders, an unlikely prospect given the company's history.
The goal of the project is to set up a platform for research-policy dialogues on gender equality in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the post-2015 framework, as well as on wider regional gender equality related issues.
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Google says it's still putting the appropriate APIs together and cleaning up the platform requirements so that app developers will have an easier time of things, but don't expect to see any apps on Google TV until early next year at the soonest.
This is standard operating procedure for car-makers, but BMW is taking its wide-reaching platform up a notch.
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Third-party sellers including Buy.com, Mambate, SF Planet, ANT Online, BeachAudio.com and Wayfair have signed up for the platform.
Next you step up to a platform where you can sit on stools and dine at the counter.
Fly-half Jones converted the 19th-minute try from the touchline and then set up another attacking platform that threatened Leicester's line.
Joel Monaghan's interception then set up the attacking platform from which King outmuscled Josh Charnley to score his second try.
As Gore stepped up to the platform, Bradley slipped into the background.
Mosaic chose to work with these states because that is where most of the investors who had signed up for their platform live.
For while Microsoft says there are some eight manufacturers signed up to the platform only Nokia has declared it as its principal platform.
Nearly half of Blackstone's deals since 2009, for example, have been stakes in start-up or "platform" companies that it will slowly grow through deals.
Perhaps Law and Justice will belatedly team up with Civic Platform.
But Riki Flutey remained a threat, carving Gloucester open three minutes from time to set up an attacking platform that Wasps capitalised on with a Walder penalty.
Getting Google to open up its advertising platform, in particular, is likely to make it less profitable and leave more money on the table for its rivals.
The unboxing process involves a lot of tiny compartments and several instances of moving the platform up and down to remove hidden cardboard boxes and plastic bags full of bolts, wrenches and the like.
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And if it's true that fame is changing, and celebrity is being democratized in the 21st century, maybe we all are going to one day wind up on a platform, standing high above a pool.
"If you can build a good platform made up of high-tech, high-quality elements and you then produce, oh, five vehicles on that platform, you are going to save a lot of money, " says Folz.
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