Unlike other e-commerce platforms, Rakuten offers a host of value-added services to merchants on its platform.
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He expects Amazon to add more value-added services that it will make it more competitive with Amazon.
Weibi can be used to purchase virtual goods for gaming and value-added services on the Sina Weibo site.
That will put HP in more direct competition with IBM for value-added services.
Leading with such value-added services has affected a positive mind shift among customers.
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Costolo says more and more brands are flocking to Twitter, and the company would love to see more value-added services.
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An ESCO provides energy-efficiency-related and other value-added services and for which performance contracting is a core part of its energy-efficiency services business.
The company says it will focus on industries such as finance and health care, where RIM can provide value-added services beyond hardware.
Within a year Sulger expects customers to be using SmartPay to buy online and wireless value-added services, in addition to phone and utility bills.
Tencent Holding company owns a number of Tecent name brand internet and computer companies principally engaged in the value-added services markets online and in telecom.
Staying on top means Global Sources will need to continue to expand its line of value-added services, which competitors will have a hard time matching.
Tencent had previously indicated it would let the service remain free and try to monetize the platform by offering value-added services like online games and mobile shopping.
Through this strategic partnership, Juniper Networks is entering into an agreement with OnLive to jointly collaborate on creating additional value-added services and feature-rich applications using Junos Pulse.
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In barely ten months he has made dramatic changes, emphasizing flashier products and marketing, new Web sites to handle customer complaints and ideas and a bigger push to sell value-added services.
Value-added services revenue in this vertical actually grew 7% sequentially.
"We want to leverage that BBM platform to create new services that are really value-added services that people, companies, whatever, are really willing to pay for, " Mr. Heins said.
When Sprint makes Office 365 available, it plans to bundle it with value-added services to create solutions that further increase productivity and unleash the power of today's mobile workforce.
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Media content delivery (including value-added services) is the most important business segment for Akamai and it is understandable that the company would look to prevent its competitors from catching up.
Other companies, such as United Parcel Services and IBM, successfully stepped back and redefined what businesses they were in to create value-added services that built on their core products.
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Balsillie named carrier billing, value-added services, some undefined new type of advertising and Near Field Communications (NFC) as features that would soon be added to both the PlayBook and BlackBerry smartphones.
The various services that First Round offers are part of a growing trend of venture capital firms offering value-added services and staff to help their portfolio companies in order to compete for top entrepreneurs.
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For an enterprise to get maximum value from M2M, the ecosystem needs to come together to package their value-added services into an application that is simple-to-use and seamlessly integrates all the components in the background.
In the maturing Russian market, it has shifted its focus from growing the subscriber base to increasing ARPU. Next year's launch of its third-generation broadband network will expand value-added services and should boost ARPU even further.
"Free ISPs are not going to be just a flash in the pan if they can create value-added services" and can keep surfers coming back to their websites, says Matthew McGarvey, regional Internet analyst for International Data Corp. in Hong Kong.
Unlike online travel agencies such as Expedia, Orbitz and Priceline, Kayak does not provide online bookings directly but gives consumers a one-stop search solution to the best fares along with other value-added services like flight status updates and pricing alerts.
OnStar, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, is the leading global provider of connected safety and security solutions, value-added mobility services and advanced information technology.
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We must be a value-added economy where services support industry.
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Innovative technologies and strategic BI solutions, which go beyond just game-day analytics to manage big data on mobile platforms and which can be delivered on the premises or in the cloud, can not only transform their operations but also continue to deliver value-added products and services, improving the overall fan experience.
The Europeans have won every battle with us at the WTO, even though they routinely rebate domestic value-added taxes to companies that export goods and services from their countries.
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