MetaX is a Los Angeles - based, Blockchain technology company driving development and adoption
of open platforms for digital advertising.
Readium is an important pillar
of our open platform strategy.
The benefit
of the open platform is that a company can build an expensive PC for the aficionado, and a cheap PC for the more economically - compromised.
«We're delighted Apple has decided to embrace the importance
of opening its platform to third party keyboards.
«Alexa's very popular because
of its open platform approach,» commented Trip Chowdhry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research.
But Google is the champion
of the open platform.
«The responsibility
of an open platform is to allow people to express themselves» she said during the first of an Axios interview series with Facebook execs.
Windows 10 will be more
of an open platform for virtual reality headsets, according to Microsoft.
Not exact matches
For one thing, many
open - Web advocates argue that these kinds
of deals cement control
of the internet with a few large
platforms such as Facebook, which may not always have the best interests
of news and journalism at heart.
The basic plans provide a level
of functionality similar to those found on other social media management
platforms, while the more advanced plans give you additional functionality for doing tricksy things like the ability to queue items to recycle them and to email your updates instead
of having to
open your social media software.
A
platform isn't a new concept, it is simply a way
of building something that is
open, inclusive, and has a strategic focus.
Not only is social media powerful in that it can
open up the eyes
of potential customers across different
platforms that you may never have thought
of using before, but it can also help to cultivate a following that is loyal to your present - day products as well as remaining actively interested in your future endeavors.
(Wenger has espoused, and backed off
of, mandatory APIs, a way
of forcing giant
platforms to
open up.)
Also, a wealth
of platforms exist for enhancing communication with your customers, such as software that lets you know if and when they
open emails you send so you can track the effectiveness
of your campaigns.
Kik's fiercest competitor in the battle to dominate this new era
of interfaces is Facebook, which has been encouraging developers to build bots for its Messenger
platform and whose WhatsApp subsidiary is finally
opening up to business uses.
However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder
of Junar, an
open data
platform for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job for at least a year.
Called
Open Homes, the
platform lets anyone sign up to host a person in need — offering all or part
of their residence.
Last month, Thomas Peterffy, the billionaire chairman
of Interactive Brokers Group Inc., wrote an
open letter to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, arguing that bitcoin's large price swings mean its futures contracts shouldn't be allowed on
platforms that clear other derivatives.
The connected car is now widely seen as an
open platform on which you put many things and I want to take a lot
of credit for the way this is being played out, with millions
of dollars
of investment dollars because
of the work I have laid out.
What's more, his polarizing lack
of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door
open to his rival Clinton, whose small business
platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.
If you're on track to be more than a mom - and - pop shop, it's essential to have a high - quality, accountable financial
platform to effectively monitor the health
of an organization, fuel business decisions and
open your company up to growth capital.
In the late 2000s, explains Leung, the U.S. federal government began standardizing its extensive network
of websites using an
open - source software
platform known as Drupal.
The startup's
open banking
platform helps banks to meet the compliance requirements
of the upcoming European Payment Services Directive (PSD2).
About seventy partners, most
of which are automakers, now use the
open platform.
BAIC is one
of many automakers using Baidu's
open - sourced Apollo self - driving
platform.
The media giant is partnering with Independence Health Group — one
of the largest Blue Shield insurers in the US — to develop an
open source tech and communications
platform that will allow patients to access their data throughout their healthcare journey.
Edd Dumbill, program chair
of the O'Reilly
Open Source Convention, hopes Google Plus is the start
of a new social layer to the web without silos or walled gardens preventing users and their information from moving between
platforms.
When it first launched the Facebook
Platform in 2007 — in the era
of Farmville and incessant Newsfeed spam - Facebook left a lot
of data
open to developers.
So optimistic is Udacity about the future
of self - driving cars, that the online learning
platform recently launched a contest offering $ 100,000 to anyone who can build the world's first
open - source autonomous vehicle.
As we wait for the JOBS Act to clear the way for anyone to invest in businesses via SEC - approved crowdfunding
platforms, entrepreneurs can post on some websites that are
open only to accredited investors, which under SEC rules includes individuals earning at least $ 200,000 a year or those with a net worth
of $ 1 million or more.
Record is an
open platform for people to process their fitness data from any device, and Record exec Glode calls it «the ultimate digital expression
of Under Armour.»
He is the co-founder and CEO
of GitHub, a San Francisco - based developer
platform that aims to help users write and host code, manage
open and closed - source projects, build software, apps and websites while interacting with others in the community.
From integrating e-learning directly into the
platform, to
opening up its own freelance marketplace, thus making it easier than ever to sell products and services to other professionals directly on the site, LinkedIn is realizing a vision
of handling almost every element imaginable in the professional workplace.
Weissbluth is the founder and CEO
of HighTower, a firm
of fiduciary advisors with an
open - source
platform of various industry - leading financial products and solutions.
AIMS, which had $ 156 billion in assets under supervision at June 30, is an «
open architecture»
platform, which means none
of the investments Goldman selects can be invested in funds that the bank's own portfolio managers oversee.
«BoxTone has been an
open customer
platform,» Christy Wyatt, CEO
of Good, told Fortune.
On the corporate side, Facebook, which is not known for being an
open platform, has developed such a reputation for privacy violations that the launch
of its Messenger app was met with a huge wave
of revulsion, even though the permissions being requested were really pretty standard.
-- Pieterjan Bouten, CEO
of Showpad, a sales and marketing success
platform which recently received $ 25 million in funding,
opened a new office in Chicago to accelerate its global growth, and was named to the Inc. 5000 list
of top 10 fastest - growing software companies in Europe in 2017
Laurie Pickard stands to be the first person to cobble together an entire business program's worth
of classes from massive
open online course
platforms.
Cloudera's disclosure comes as several
of its Hadoop competitors, notably the aforementioned Hortonworks (along with IBM, Pivotal Software), are proclaiming their intention to standardize certain Hadoop components through an organization called the
Open Data
Platform Initiative.
Using Android, the search giant's popular
open - source OS, gives manufacturers a free
platform that rivals the user - friendliness
of Apple's iOS.
We will consider all available options, including those for appeal, to ensure that these networks on which the Internet depends continue to provide a free and
open platform for innovation and expression, and operate in the interest
of all Americans.
The best part about the Google project, the Nuzzel founder said, is that it is based on a completely
open standard that any publisher can implement — as opposed to the Facebook (FB) or Apple news
platforms, which are only
open to a select group
of sites and are based on proprietary standards.
Because
of its collaborative and free - to - use model, Becker says that an increasing number
of employers are adopting
open - source software
platforms, which means an increased demand for tech professionals with
open - source skills.
«We will consider all available options, including those for appeal, to ensure that these networks on which the internet depends continue to provide a free and
open platform for innovation and expression, and operate in the interest
of all Americans.»
While traditional prototyping requires a degree
of craftsmanship, 3 - D printing makes it easier to bring an idea to life without an entrepreneur getting his or her hands dirty, especially with the help
of open innovation
platforms.
«By
opening it up to other
platforms we're really listening to what our users have asked for,» said Andrew Bocking, executive vice-president
of software product management at BlackBerry.
The company is moving from an e-commerce model towards an
open platform called Home Marketplace, which enables buyers and suppliers
of construction materials to deal with each other directly.
And yet there are so many examples
of great innovation
platforms that are not based on
open sourcing.
As the network seems poised for change — recently, LinkedIn announced that it will soon allow anyone to publish content on its
platform (much as LinkedIn Influencers do now)-- I talked with David Gowel, CEO at RockTech, and author
of The Power in a Link:
Open Doors, Close Deals, and Change the Way You Do Business Using LinkedIn.