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- What the Xbox Tells Us About Market Competition
- Academics are increasingly studying strategy and competition in markets dominated by "platforms." What's a platform? They are products created to be platforms on top of which other companies can sell products and services. Cell phones are a platform -- they provided a multi-billion business for ring...
- Blog posts 2008-01-04
- Transactiv Raises $1.2 Million For E-Commerce Platform
- Cincinnati-based stealth startup Transactiv has raised $1.2 million in a first round of funding to develop what it is calling a “new transactional platform for online commerce.” No details on how it will be different from existing platforms on the market. (The Transactiv website features a total of four...
- External links 2009-10-13
- The "Dark Side" Of Open Operating Systems: Mobile Data Revenues To Take A Hit?
- Open is good, but not, of course, for everyone. In a grim reminder that "paradigm shifts" always spit out losers, MultiMedia Intelligence co-founder and chief research officer Frank Dickson takes a closer look at the "dark side, of the trend toward open OS handsets, a move he compares to...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Video-ad platform One True Media raises USD9m
- Video-ad platform One True Media has raised USD9m in second round funding, led by DAG Ventures. Previous investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also participated, as did NTT Finance. The company’s main product, SpotMixer, is a self-service video ad platform that is used by clients such as YouTube, YellowBook...
- Articles 2009-01-08
- Sun Microsystems F2Q09 (Qtr End 12/28/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer portion of today's call. Operator Instructions. Our first question comes from Bill Shope of Credit Suisse. Bill Shope - Credit Suisse Okay, great, thanks. Last week, IBM made the argument that virtualization and increasing focus on...
- Earnings calls 2009-02-03
- Dominos Pizza Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Gregory Badishkanian – Citi. Gregory Badishkanian – Citi A few questions on same store sales and I think you had a 1% to 2% impact from the You Tube video for the quarter, so would you say that same store...
- Earnings calls 2009-07-22
- Glu Mobile, Inc. Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Tavis McCourt - Morgan, Keegan & Company. Justin Patterson - Morgan, Keegan & Company Thanks guys this is Justin Patterson on behalf of Tavis today. First, Greg, if this is your last call, thanks very much...
- Earnings calls 2009-08-04
- Learning platform Cerego raises USD3.4m
- Learning Platform Cerego has raised USD3.4m in funding from NTT DoCoMo. The company offers a social learning platform, smart.fm, and education applications based on a social networking structure, including learning app iKnow. by Editorial
- Articles 2009-09-10
- Apple Launching a New Platform War With the Mac
- Apple CEO Steve Jobs will deliver another sermon to the Mac faithful at the Worldwide Developer Conference WWDC, but amid all the pyrotechnics about the iPhone, App Store and third party software goodies keep in mind the big picture: There’s a platform war about to start. It’s...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Platform-As-a-Service Needs an Audience
- Software as a service has turned into platform as a service (as if we needed another “aaSâ€) and as this application battle royale gets underway developers need to think about these efforts in terms of audience. For instance, Bill Appleton, CTO of DreamFactory, which makes cloudwareâ€"rich Internet...
- Blog posts 2008-06-23
- AlternativeTo Finds Platform-Specific Alternatives to Popular Software
- Looking for an open-source replacement for Microsoft Outlook? How about the Linux equivalent of Adobe Premiere Pro? AlternativeTo suggests alternatives to popular applications and lets you filter the results by platform for easier review. You can browse the AlternativeTo site for "most viewed" and "most liked" software...
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- Nature Knows Best: The Future of e-Readers
- Boston Imagine this: A butterfly's wings and the way they use ambient light to generate colors all along the spectrum, as needed. Or this: The microstructure of opals, and the magic by which a substance made up of nothing but glass and water (both...
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Sprint Launches Platform To Bring Java Developers From The Desktop To Mobile
- Sprint (NYSE: S) has developed a new software platform that it hopes will enable the larger desktop-community of Java developers to easily and quickly develop applications for the mobile phone. It said today, it wants to close the gap between the 7.1 million Java developers for the desktop, and...
- External links 2008-12-09
- NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Rich Repetto - Sandler O'Neill Rich Repetto - Sandler O'Neill You continue to outperform on the synergy integration side. It looks like we’re getting to the point where you’re hitting what you’ve announced. Are there quantifiable synergies above and beyond...
- Earnings calls 2008-11-06
- Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question comes from Bob Mitchell from Conestoga Capital. Your line is open. Bob Mitchell - Conestoga Capital Good afternoon guys. How are you doing? Brian Casey Hi Bob, how are you? Bob Mitchell - Conestoga Capital I was just...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-27
- Affymetrix, Inc. Q3 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator (Operator's Instructions) And our first question will come from Derik De Bruin with UBS. Derik De Bruin - UBS Hi, good afternoon. Can you give us just a little bit more color on the Kaiser agreement, I guess? You said that UCSF is buying systems...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-21
- Microblogging Platform StatusNet Gets $850,000
- Canadian microblogging startup StatusNet has raised $875,000 in a round of seed funding from Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capital and angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff. StatusNet’s open source platform is used by organizations to set up their own Twitter-like sites, which they can choose to make public or private. The...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Ford Motor Company Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Your first question comes from the line of John Murphy representing Banc of America. Please proceed. John Murphy – Banc of America Good morning guys. Alan Mulally Hi John. John Murphy – Banc of America Just a question around the common architectures that you are...
- Earnings calls 2009-11-03
- The Platform Driven Organization
- From the executive summary: ‘Leaders of leaders have a different role. They develop a platform upon which an organization and its leaders set the tone, ethic, and direction as well as figure out the best answers to systemic challenges and entire classes of problems an organization can face. If leaders...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Unique Problem Solving for Petrochemical Industry
- A lubrication malfunction caused a catastrophic failure in a gearbox on one of the offshore gas production platforms. In this application, the gearbox was a compressor drive located between a gas turbine and a gas compressor and was used for pumping material through undersea lines directly to the customer's processing...
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