With massive growth comes the idea to do something better, give something back, use the growing platform to bring scale to philanthropy and activism.
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Although there are hundreds of group-buying sites in existence, there are only a half a dozen that have a turn-key solution: a known presence in top markets, editorial infrastructure, a credible and local sales force and a sophisticated technology platform that can scale.
The platform is designed to scale to hundreds of millions of users, he added.
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As we scale this platform out to the field, sales executives will have access to their opportunities anytime, anywhere.
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Now, ChapterSpot, an online management platform for fraternities and sororities, will have the opportunity to meet with several investors in order to find a deal that will help them scale their platform into other industries.
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CrushFTP is a full scale professional cross platform FTP server.
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While online advertising growth continues, there are significant benefits of scale in advertising platform economics, in capital costs for search index build-out, and in research and development, making this a time of industry consolidation and convergence.
Digital learning, I argue, provides the platform to do this at scale, but in many cases, students may learn better offline, and a system powered by digital learning should be able to accommodate that.
You are going to have companies that are not used to dealing with mobile technology, software development, application development, regulatory issues, security, and control, trying to scale an M2M platform on a global basis.
Both are supported by complex platform technology that has cost billions to scale, innovate and maintain.
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Keith Hayes of Goldman Sachs reckons that 500, 000 copies off a single platform is about the point at which scale benefits start to drop away.
De Halleux, whose company has been involved with AdSense for Games since its early stages, says Google's platform appealed to Playfish because social games scale quickly and Google has a large ad sales team.
After all, the smart phone world is a platform war, where first mover advantage and scale matter.
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With respects to scale-out NAS, NetApp was seven to eight years late (depending on how one counts the dates) with delivering scale-out capabilities to its platform.
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The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.
The loan-origination platform has high fixed costs, so it is a scale business.
Not every ISV shopping for a cloud data platform or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) needs that scale, though.
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Shane Snow, cofounder of Contently, an online platform connecting brands and freelance writers, asked the panel how to scale social media to get the attention of big companies.
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Together the Coke and Heinz bottles share a common materials platform that, as others adopt it, will result in growing scale economies, lower unit costs and more stable materials supply.
Once installed, the platform will deliver performance in excess of 10x what is achievable with contemporary scale-out NAS systems.
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Although sales and profits rocketed in the early 1990s, he was seen to have misjudged on a grand scale the possibilities and growth of the internet - a technology platform that Microsoft has been unable to replicate its market dominance on.
Economics 101 tells us that this is exactly the type of industry in which the banks could gain economies of scale and create tremendous value by consolidation around open industry standards and a common technology platform.
On a scale of usability, it falls just beneath Windows Phone 8 - the third-place mobile platform it has no choice to but to parry with.
Amazon could build on this platform, and -who knows- maybe they will catch up to Apple as they gain more supply chain scale and expertise.
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If this can be packaged into a commercially viable platform, it could instantly double the amount of information sent over existing networks, and on an even grander scale, it could allow airplanes to radio into control towers simultaneously (a feat that's shockingly impossible with today's physics bearing down).
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The event, that took place on 6 and 7 September 2012, provided a platform for discussion on the achievements during the UN Literacy Decade (UNLD), the plan for concrete actions to scale up efforts over the coming three years by building on effective existing practices and also envision the post-2015 literacy scenario and the challenges.
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