These transactions and related strategic agreements will enable both companies to better align their current and future product development efforts and roadmaps, accelerate time-to-market for new products and position the companies to better address rapidly evolving opportunities in markets including, but not limited to, mobile computing, cloud computing and solid state storage.

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With the launch of Target.com, it will no longer sell its products on Amazon and can better market and position its own products.

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Many Chinese companies even try to position their products to have Western appeal.

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