The case highlights a flaw in using a market definition to frame a competition concern.
The document first assesses the implications for Market Definition and Monopoly Power of these competitive realities.
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The focus on market definition has nevertheless made it harder for trustbusters to stand in the way of some mergers.
That seems a little easier to show, depending on that market definition: Facebook has more than 845 million active users worldwide, far more than anyone else.
For one, assuming an inflow of cheap money into the stock market, there would by definition have to be an outflow.
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Wall Street is nothing more than a blanket definition for the market.
On the widest definition of the market, including spares, the Europeans calculate that the true weight in the world market that Boeing will acquire with the merger is over 80%.
In the euro area, the introduction of the single currency and the creation of an integrated financial market will change both the definition of the money supply and its relationship to inflation.
And with new technology continually entering the market high-definition, internet connectivity, LED backlighting, 120, 240 or 480 frame-per-second interpolation, applications, 3-D, wide color gamut, and 4K salespeople always have a reason to convince consumers to upgrade.
Panasonic, which sells the the largest high-definition TV on the market, says it has been surprised.
The price that arises out of the market, then, is by definition the correct one.
This is the definition of a stock market valuation, the aggregated opinions of everyone.
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But it requires only a slightly broader definition to reveal a market that would remain competitive even after an Oracle-PeopleSoft merger.
There's so much high-definition equipment on the market today that I can't pretend to have looked at more than a fraction of it.
So is a decline of 10% to 19% (an intermediate-level correction) or a drop of 20% or more (the typical definition of a bear market).
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Crony capitalism government dolling out money and favoritism via the legislative process is replacing the traditional definition of free-market capitalism itself for millions of people.
Our definition of the IT market included business and government purchases of computer and communications equipment, software, and IT consulting and outsourcing services it did not include their purchases of telecommunications services, which are declining in the US and growing slowly globally.
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That said, if excess funny money is flowing into the stock market backed by rapacious buyers offering a weakened dollar for shares, then by definition there are individuals exiting the very same stock market.
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That's especially true if you buy in at or near market peaks, when stocks, by definition, are wildly popular.
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The radical and ultimately unworkable notion is for the dollar, which is our basic unit of market value, to have no legal definition.
"If you're going to pursue the biggest returns in the stock market you have to accept, by definition, the biggest volatility, " he says.
Oracle said the DoJ's definition of the business software market was too narrow, and did not take account of emerging competitive threats from Microsoft and numerous smaller suppliers.
Note that our definition of the global tech market in this report includes business and government purchases of computer equipment, communications equipment, software, IT consulting services, and IT outsourcing and hardware maintenance services, but does not include purchases of telecommunications services.
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It would be hard to tell when reading what passes for market commentary these days, but all trades by definition balance.
The exceptional picture quality of the HT-F9750W is immediately noticeable, even on the Ultra-High Definition (UHD) TV sets coming to market in 2013.
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The new loom produces high-definition weave carpets from photos for an international market and can feature up to 32 colours instead of the conventional eight.
The emergence of high-definition video formats could also provide a new market for the technology, as television-production companies and broadcasters grapple with a sudden and dramatic increase in their storage requirements.
And unlike America, Europe seems keen to use a lax definition of capital that is no longer viewed by the market as the best benchmark for solvency.
Manufacturers who embed the Archer module into their mobile platforms can accelerate their time-to-market with innovative new 60GHz enabled products capable of delivering high-definition wireless video connectivity between portable devices and large displays.
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The company blamed the TV slump on "tough ongoing market conditions" and said that investment in upgrading its high-definition TV galleries had also forced it to turn away three large TV productions in favour of films.
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