It's positioning taking over its own destiny with respect to mobile devices as a way to boost its ecosystem in a bid to eventually make the Windows Phone platform more attractive for outside OEMs, which is different from Apple's angle, but in the short-term, the goal of building devices that best showcase its software and services remains the same.
SingTel is one of the 18 carriers that has signed on to work with Mozilla in the development of the Firefox OS for mobile (and the two partner on investments to boost that ecosystem, too, such as this $25 million investment in mobile search startup Everything.me).me
This data comes just as Apple and Google aim to boost the ecosystem for fitness apps and wearables with HealthKit and Google Fit, both of which aim to make it easy for wearable device manufacturers to share their data and app developers to use that data to make even better apps. .
The fishway is also boosting the ecosystem and helping city dwellers, including young students, connect with a natural environment that is so close yet often goes unnoticed.
They're expected to complete the study by next spring, which will include recommendations to keep boosting the ecosystem, like planting more vegetation in the soft-bottom sections of the river.
According to the new study, the herbicide atrazine not only weakens the frogs' immune system, but it also provides a nutritional boost to the ecosystem that leads to more parasites.
This new New York fund will be headed by SoftBank Capital General Partner Jordy Levy, with the funds coming from the State Of New York itself in hopes that it'll boost the startup ecosystem there.
That in turn drives lock-in for Facebook's ecosystem, boosting the likelihood that people use its main app where they'll see News Feed ads.
Rohan was the architect of the Government's 'Tech City' initiative, and is now involved in boosting the London ecosystem further with a new kind of work space aimed at entrepreneurs, Second Home.
ET. As is typical with bitcoin surges like this, there was no specific reason for the sudden price hike, but the bitcoin ecosystem was boosted this week when CME Group, the world's largest exchange owner, said it plans to introduce bitcoin futures by the end of the year.
