Sony Ericsson may also be at risk, given its focus on mid- and high-tier phones, Gartner's Milanesi says.
"With the high-tier under pressure and mid-tier becoming more competitive, we may see a slowdown in their sales, " she says.
The OnLive Game Service delivers users the latest high-performance, top-tier games instantly to almost any device, eliminating the need for expensive local consoles or high-end PCs.
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Basel III focuses on a ratio of high-quality capital - called tier 1 - which is needed to cushion it against any future shocks.
Further, the MSM8930 S4 Plus chipset has integrated LTE support, making it possible for Qualcomm to bring LTE to high volume mid-tier smartphones that will soon be making their way to China Mobile.
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The goal is to combine them into a high-growth, low-cost mid-tier silver producer focused in the Americas.
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The CDU champions the traditional three-tier high-school system, in which pupils are separated early (usually at ten) according to ability.
The top-ranked schools sent graduates into long-term legal jobs in high numbers, but 87 lower-tier schools had placement rates of 50% or less.
So on Tuesday, the companies announced a proposal from McEwen, the chairman, chief executive officer and the largest shareholder of both US Gold and Minera Andes, to combine the companies into a high-growth, low-cost mid-tier silver producer focused in the Americas.
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This threw up big differences: in Spain (which suffers from high unemployment and a two-tier labour market that protects insiders on permanent contracts), 80% said it was harder to land a job as a Moroccan, a sentiment shared by only 53% of German respondents.
Texas Memory (a private company) has provided high end Tier 0 DRAM and more recently Tier 0 and Tier 1 NAND flash-based storage systems since 1978.
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Most successful high velocity sales organizations typically have a two-tier structure.
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Action at the top end of the art market will remain firm resource-rich Qatar is in the midst of a spending spree on high-profile art while caution prevails for up-and-coming and second-tier artists.
Since Western Europe and North America were mature markets that essentially were closed to new high-volume handset OEMs, TCL shipped its phones designed for the low-to-mid tier Chinese consumer to markets like India and Southeast Asia, and expected to dominate those emerging markets over the pricey, know-nothing big Western multinationals.
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With competition increasing on the high-end of the smartphone market, Samsung will probably look to increase traction for its mid-tier smartphones such as the Rex and Galaxy Pop, to keep the momentum going.
If their spouses' sympathy is exhausted, they are turning to executive coaching, a one-to-one, high-cost service (running to thousands of dollars a day) that companies increasingly offer their top-tier executives.
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The menswear maker, which produces garments for Tommy Hilfiger and Polo, expanded its profit by 56% in 2012 by improving its own high-end Black Label brand, which appeals to the growing ranks of middle-class men in second-tier cities.
Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibre scientific journal called eLife that would compete directly with top-tier publications such as Nature and Science, seen by scientists as the premier locations for publishing.
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Now second-tier football schools can be financially competitive when recruiting a high school player and can remind him that if he goes to a bigger school he may spend a lot of time on the bench.
The search for low to mid-tier jobs could be the sector for online search, while the upscale and high-end employment search could be the focus of social networking organizations.
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Apart from the high input cost environment, margins have been adversely affected by disproportionate growth in developing markets and mid-tier products, which have lower than segment average selling prices (ASPs) and lower demand for premium-priced products leading to an adverse product mix and a downward pressure on margins.
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Nothing Real's clients are the very high end of the film and post-production industries, so this acquisition should get Apple technology into those top-tier production facilities.
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