It implies the kind of channel glut that may lead to very aggressive pricing.
But this aggressive pricing has also been supported by further enhancements in customer service.
Aggressive pricing helped Cummings surpass rival alternative trading sites, like Knight Trading's Direct Edge, in short shrift.
Also, aggressive pricing cuts from Google and Microsoft for their cloud services has resulted in the company following suit.
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Meanwhile competitors such as Rackspace are aiming to retain their cloud customers through aggressive pricing combined with exceptional service.
The action, plus aggressive pricing on Kindle hardware, shows that Amazon takes the Apple challenge very seriously, as it should.
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In order to gain market-share from Amazon Web Services, the leader in the market, these companies have indulged in aggressive pricing.
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And the man who headed the work on rationalising the supply chain and creating the conditions that allowed this aggressive pricing?
Rosenfeld attributes the drop to economic weakness, high unemployment among young adults and aggressive pricing by both Mondelez and category leader Wrigley.
Aggressive pricing tactics by competitors could also squeeze the company, Ives notes.
On the back of higher input costs, particularly for potato and wheat products, were counteracted with aggressive pricing action, the company noted.
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Mr Arnold is adamant that he will protect the bank's profitability by wooing customers with advice and superior service, not with aggressive pricing.
Son has proven adept at breathing lift back into spent businesses, riving Vodafone Japan, Japan Telecom and Willcom, through aggressive pricing and marketing.
"Where we have seen certain bonds under-perform, it's normally a function of poor credit quality, weak structure or overly aggressive pricing, " he said.
Samsung appears to be the primary vendor in the Android ecosystem which continues to grow share with a comprehensive product portfolio and aggressive pricing.
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The proposed acquisition would combine two of those four, eliminating from the market T-Mobile, a firm that historically has been a value provider, offering particularly aggressive pricing.
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What will remain unknown until retailers report their financial year end results is whether the aggressive pricing and free shipping offers came at the cost of lower margins.
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Nokia has not broadly participated in the recent aggressive pricing activity, as it believes that the negative impact to profitability would outweigh any short-term incremental benefits to device unit sales.
Given the aggressive pricing, the up-to-date hardware and design, and the software tweaks, the new Kindle Paperwhite sets a high bar for Apple, which will bring out an iPad mini later this month.
The short-term bump created by a couple of completely new feature phone lines with novel designs and aggressive pricing could improve 1Q12 prospects even as the overall feature phone category continues its secular decline globally.
However, first-half gross and operating profit margins fell from 53.2% and 33.9%, respectively, to 50.2% and 31.1% due to increased advertising and marketing expenses, more aggressive pricing and a greater proportion of sales from lower-margin products.
These include Nokia's tactical decision not to meet certain aggressive pricing of some competitors, as well as overall market competition, including the entry markets, and the temporary impact of a slower ramp-up of a mid-range Nokia device.
Sprint may be able to stem the tide of rising subscriber cancellations with aggressive pricing plans, and the cycle of a lack of exciting, trendy phones appears to be broken thanks to great sales and reviews for the EVO 4G.
But larger problems loom for Intel, as tablets put pressure and begin to take market share from notebooks, aggressive pricing from competitors put pressure on margins, and AMD ramps up its attempts to win market share in the server universe.
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" Adam Quinton, regional telecom analyst with Merrill Lynch in Singapore, agrees: "Both Thailand and Philippines seem to be demonstrating that a new competitor with good marketing and aggressive pricing can make inroads into the incumbent's position once nationwide coverage has been achieved.
In a report earlier this week, Deshpande noted that some tablet makers have decided to delay planned launches following the aggressive pricing approach Apple took with the iPad 2, leaving prices unchanged from the original iPad despite the addition of a more powerful processors and front- and rear-facing cameras.
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In a note to investors this week, Bear Stearns' Gurinder Kalra wrote that he sees a "less aggressive" pricing environment going forward.
Amazon is offering aggressive 4G pricing for its new top-line Kindle Fires.
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