Windows OS, the IPhone, the Wii, and Facebook's Application Programming

question 59

Multiple Choice

Windows OS, the iPhone, the Wii, and Facebook's application programming interfaces allow for the development and integration of complementary goods by third parties. Based on this evidence, all these products or services are said to be _____.

• A) pure plays
• B) coopetitors
• C) adaptors
• D) platforms
• E) venture capitalists

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Definitions:

Proxy Solicitation

The process by which one shareholder asks another for his or her voting right.

Voting Trust Agreement

A legal agreement where stockholders transfer their shares to a trustee in exchange for voting trust certificates, allowing the trustee to vote on corporate matters.

Cumulative Voting Agreement

An arrangement that allows shareholders in a company to pool their votes towards electing directors, enhancing the voting power of minority shareholders.

Good Faith

Honesty in fact and observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealings in the trade.