Wireless technology company Qualcomm pursued a two-pronged strategy in the auction, said Dean Brenner, Qualcomm's vice president of government affairs in an interview with Forbes.com.
After all, Guidant was the only competitor with a two-pronged strategy: a stent developed in-house and another stent that would be sold via a development agreement with privately held Cook Cardiology .
Therefore, the ACE Program is a two-pronged, top-down, bottom-up strategy to connect regional early-stage products and companies to anchor customers and vice versa.
As long as details at The Verge prove true, the devices attached to those names represent a two-pronged revival of Samsung's Windows-based mobile strategy.