Windows Vista, on my 2-gigabyte laptop, took a minute and a half to start up, and introduced serious sluggishness whenever I tried to switch from one Mac program to another.
Riya, a Silicon Valley start-up, introduced Like.com in 2006.
On Friday, Blekko, a search start-up, introduced an app called Izik for Apple and Android devices.
Earlier this year, Ms. Maloney and her husband, who had joined the start-up, introduced sister sites in half a dozen other cities under a new name, "Urbanbaby.com".com
Last fall, Lala, a Silicon Valley start-up, introduced a distinctive service that lets people listen to a song once at no charge.
Qwips, a New York start-up, introduced a voice app this month that allows people to add 30-second voice messages to existing social communications like photos, e-mail, SMS, tweets and Facebook posts.
Anonymous message board app Whisper has soared to 30 million monthly users from 10 million last fall, and the Venice start-up introduced a polling tool, according to Adweek.
A start-up introduces a loyalty platform for small businesses.
A start-up introduces an app to identify how many customers are installing apps and what advertising channel influenced the user.
In the situation that Anton and Yao (1995) investigated, both the firm and the employee are facing a trade-off between various organisational options: creating a start-up, introducing a spin-off company or internalising the innovation project.
