Moderated by Don Tapscott, author of Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, among other books, panelists were unanimous in their belief that the ubiquity of the Internet, along with the emergence of Web-based platforms that enable mass collaboration and crowd-sourcing, hold the key to rapid creation and development of new startups.

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All parties involved are basically crowd sourcing both feature requests for Apple products and their preliminary development.

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The development of Sensus Connected Touch gained momentum late in 2011 when Volvo Car Group started sourcing a powerful hardware platform with first-class functional and graphical features and the capacity to handle future expansion.

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