Show some solidarity when your business competitor is targeted for being politically incorrect.
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Citing previous case law, Intel asserted that even acts of "pure malice by one business competitor against another" don't by themselves constitute a breach of antitrust law.
My loyal in-laws, on hearing the story, were also upset and vowed to move their business to the competitor too.
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Of course, since the way to steal business from a competitor is by developing better products and lowering prices, consumers will lose.
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Following Kelo, the millions of people who have struggled to grow their small businesses may find themselves forced to sell if the local government decides that their property could be put to better use by a bigger business or larger competitor.
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Mom may also decide to go start her own business and become your competitor!
The Treasury response to Vickers' Independent Commission on Banking today says a merger of those Lloyds Banking Group assets with the existing Co-op business would mean a competitor with 7-8% of the personal current account.
By asserting its patent on one-click shopping, it effectively disrupted its competitor's business--BarnesandNoble.com--during the crucial holiday shopping season.
The company kept losing bids for new business to this very same competitor.
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By buying Chrysler, GM also prevents its fairly successful minivan and pickup business from falling into a competitor's hands.
It could mark a development in the software industry which Microsoft is trying to forestall by driving its chief competitor out of business.
Unfortunately, intercepted communications can mean a significant loss of revenue for corporations that have unknowingly revealed trade secrets or business information that an agile competitor can exploit.
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He also believes Walgreen has increasingly shown its ability to compete with its competitor's business model, as exemplified by its acquisition of health care provider firm Take Care.
Reinforcement of that negative "brand" can put the competitor out of business, and sets the stage for greater audience receptivity to positive follow-on messages about the United States itself.
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That kind of continuous service is only to be expected, says Margie Backaus, Chief Business Officer at 365 Main competitor Equinix (nasdaq: EQIX - news - people ).
And since their content is lacking, they are unable to really compete, and because they are unable to compete, they do what every failing industry does: They go to government to try and legislate the competitor out of business.
Meanwhile, an entirely new class of competitor has entered the business: online brokers who cater to the smallest investor.
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However, this version of the Xperia might finally be the one to make Sony a legitimate competitor in the smartphone business.
In late April, Lear's chief competitor in the seating business, Johnson Controls of Milwaukee, snapped up the Becker Group, another company that manufactures car interiors.
Iron Mountain uses DocuSign, an industry pioneer and now one of the established leaders in the business who will be a formidable competitor to Adobe.
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The first is that the paper industry is in many ways a commodity business, and in a commodity business any more than one serious competitor is enough to produce a price war.
For years, we had a virtual monopoly on the business down there and one day a competitor asked the Mexican state utility why we always got the job.
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In the biggest deal, No. 46 Yammer, a maker of business social-networking software and a competitor of Jive Software, agreed in June to be acquired by Microsoft Corp.
They put many tiny mom-and-pop health-food stores out of business, and seemed to have no competitor in applying the principles of mass distribution to the world of healthier, gourmet food.
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Like its competitor Urbanfetch , also out of business, it would entice customers with costly giveaways.
Motorola could also embrace Windows 7 and become a competitor in both the consumer and business sides of this market.
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W. Olin Graduate School of Business, says his program's biggest competitor is Wharton, which has offered a San Francisco-based executive M.
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Lazard's investment-banking business is too small to be an effective competitor against such giants as Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Goldman Sachs.
While all that was happening, Novatel's card business in Europe was under pricing pressure from competitor Sierra Wireless as well as a European competitor, Option.
Once you define the scope of your potential business and the corresponding potential market for your products and services, you need to determine why a consumer or business would purchase from you rather than a competitor.
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