The British mobile giant has been struggling, like its rivals in the U.K., in a highly dense field.
Perhaps as a result, Apple isn't diving at the low end of the laptop market like its rivals.
Like its rivals, Medtronic reaches out to the medical community in other ways.
And the first phone to use it, the Z10, looks much more like its rivals than like traditional BlackBerrys.
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Facebook, like its rivals, has increased efforts to grow its business on mobile devices as consumers spend more time accessing the Internet through smartphones.
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The company did a makeover, shrinking pages and changing the words and pictures on the cover to make it look and feel more like its rivals.
In the face of rising programming costs and dwindling advertising fees, the American Idol network, like its rivals, is looking to extract a fee for a signal that was once free.
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Like its rivals, it made no commitment to ideology or policies on important issues such as devolving power, changing the distribution of oil revenues, ending the much-criticised dual-exchange rate or speedier privatisation.
Like its convertible rivals, it is, at best, a standard laptop that can be occasionally used in tablet mode, preferably on a desk or table.
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The iPhone may loom over its rivals like a giant, but rivals Samsung and LG simply have more handsets in the ring.
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Like most of its rivals, Citigroup has come under the renewed scrutiny of regulators in the wake of the collapse of Enron, WorldCom and others.
This helped too: Global, like some of its rivals, got around an accounting change by reporting cash earnings that did not directly reflect the cost of purchasing bandwidth.
Ford Motor, which did not go through bankruptcy like its two Detroit rivals in 2008 was 2.6% higher, while Fiat, which controls Chrysler, rallied 4.1% on the pink sheets.
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Deutsche Annington, like many of its rivals, is a relatively young company with old roots: It was formed in 2001 when Terra Nova bought a huge portfolio of decades-old workers' flats from German Federal Railways.
However, the company, like of all its European rivals, faces a depressed home market.
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Lorillard said it sold more of brands like Newport and Maverick while its rivals reported decreases in sales.
Top Glove, which gets 80% of its sales from latex gloves, has been smart enough to diversify and, like its U.S. rivals, is making nitrile gloves, using a nonallergenic synthetic product, but in doing so it loses an edge: its proximity to its Malaysia's rubber plantations.
Like libraries, Google and its search rivals do not assume responsibility for the content that they catalog.
Unlike the early years, when Oracle clobbered a series of older, entrenched rivals like Cullinet, its competition now comes from aggressive upstarts like Sybase and Gupta as well as a rejuvenated Informix.
Unsold inventory is what drove GM and its rivals to offer price blowouts like Employee Pricing for Everyone in 2005.
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Ann Miletti, analyst for Strong Capital Management, says options for stock in Go.com, Disney's Internet property, can keep its executives from defecting to rivals like Etoys.
The company is considering lowering its online prices to compete with rivals like Amazon.
But a reluctance to ease its heavy reliance on film allowed rivals like Canon and Sony to rush into the fast-emerging digital arena.
It has been a horrific last few quarters for RIM as it saw rivals like Apple and Samsung eat into its market share while it unsuccessfully tried to enter the tablet market with the Playbook.
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The San Francisco-based bank, a consumer and business banking giant, is considered unique from its biggest bank rivals on the East Coast like JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America, because it has less of a presence in capital markets activities and trading.
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The acquisition-happy company insists it's simply "opportunistically investing" at a time when its rivals can't outbid it for large hotels like Grand Wailea.
And it's just beginning a radical overhaul of its product-design process to mimic the success of rivals like Toyota.
Like its premium-class competitors, British Airways is losing customers to cheaper rivals.
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Transparency International ranks the nation 95 in a list of 180 countries in its Corruption Perception Index, worse than several other emerging Asian rivals like China and Malaysia.
The device, first introduced this past February at Mobile World Congress, stands apart from its capacitive rivals thanks primarily to the addition of a Wacom-like digitizer panel optimized for the company's handwriting recognition software and a slew of stylus-specific, pre-loaded apps, like Adobe's Photoshop Touch and Samsung's own S Note.
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