The Street View imagery it began adding to its maps a few years ago is a result of a mind-boggling undertaking: vehicles equipped with nine-direction cameras taking 360-degree views of, basically, everything viewable from a road, anywhere.
Although the firm had long experience with product design, as it began adding connectivity to its products, management realized that it knew relatively little about creating services to enhance them.
It began adding fees to its online returns business and changing prices for its bulk shipments.
It began adding fees to its online returns business and changing prices for its bulk shipments.
But that identity and the loyalty of its 400,000 paying subscribers came into question two years ago when it began adding the catalogs of the major labels and raising its prices.
Burger King was the first large fast-food chain to reduce its purchases of pork produced in facilities that use gestation crates, taking that step in 2007 at the same time it began adding cage-free eggs to its supply chain, according to the Humane Society.
T-Mobile was one of the first to use customers' real names and customer service agents' initials in tweets, for example, and last year it began adding agents' pictures and names to its tweet replies by linking to custom bio web pages for each of its agents.
This summer, the Federal Communications Commission agreed to drop a rule that AOL connect to other services before it began adding video and other features, arguing that AOL was not fully dominant because its competitors were gaining ground.
However, the tour operator is confident that it can cope with the switch in demand to western European destinations because it began adding hotel capacity and flights in the autumn, when it became clear that there would be no holidays in Egypt or Tunisia in the wake of terrorist atrocities.
But it was not until the early 1990s that it began adding programs like the Underwood New Music Readings — free public sessions at which young composers hear their works rehearsed and recorded — and festivals like Sonidos de las Américas, which brought Latin American music into its purview.
