"Tough economic conditions, shifting consumer preferences and intense market competition weakened the worldwide mobile phone market this year, " Gartner analyst Anshul Gupta said in a statement.
For government agencies, the findings indicate the importance of monitoring firm behavior in highly competitive markets and the importance of realizing when a policy is what creates intense market competition in the first place.
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The Peugeot deal is likely to help GM fill in the blanks on its Opel turnaround plan, although some analysts are still questioning why GM wants to hang onto its European operations, given the declining market and intense competition.
The "zigzag" movement of prices rising and falling in short order was normal, she said, and a sign of the intense price competition on the market.
Within the North American market, Coach is facing intense competition from smaller players such as Michael Kors, Kate Spade and Tory Burch.
The biggest challenge that foreign investors will face when entering the China market in 2012 is the intense competition that exists for good deals.
However, he warned that intense competition, changes in the telecommunications market and increasingly high mobile penetration could limit growth.
The phone company's first ethnic Chinese chief executive is also confronted by intense competition as Hong Kong's telecommunications market liberalizes in line with the rest of Asia.
The slowdown in PC shipments, combined with intense competition and macro headwinds, has placed DRAM market in oversupply.
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In the PC operating system market, the 1980s were a period of intense competition and rapid innovation, followed by the 1990s when Windows became utterly dominant and the pace of innovation slowed.
Misallocation of funds can be disastrous in a market as strategic as China, where competition is intense, regional variations are significant, and capable talent is scarce.
Product categories mature and that maturity is resulting in higher production costs, more intense competition from rivals like Samsung and less rapid expansion of the global smartphone market.
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In the face of a declining subscriber base, intense competition from smaller, targeted newspapers in the area, and a lousy ad market I asked both the publisher and the general manager what they were going to do to drive revenue growth.
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With almost a third of the global mobile market, it is still way ahead of its rivals - though the competition is intense.
Apple, not accustomed to play defense, has suffered from intense, and competent, competition in the smartphone space as its iPhones came to dominate the market.
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Yet in a global labour-market that will be 3.5 billion strong in 2030, competition is bound to be intense and often uncomfortable, for workers and governments alike.
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This intense competition is only increasing with the build-out of new 4G networks and the emergence of new market entrants.
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And Volkwagen AG, one of the last mass-market car makers still earning money in the region, warned of flat operating profit compared with 2012 on intense competition this year.
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