And yes that IBM relationship is an interesting mixture of a customer and a competitor.
Everyone is watching the Chinese yuan because increasingly China is becoming both a big trading partner and a competitor.
Throw in an unexpected dunking in a cold mountain stream and a competitor can lapse into uncontrollable shivering and incoherence.
When future projections about your company are lacking and a competitor outlines a clear path, it doesn't instill much confidence.
As a longtime customer of Dell's hardware and a competitor in it services while at EDS, Schuckenbrock insists he knows how to help the division.
So if your patented device uses an iron rod and a competitor develops the same device with a steel rod, you may not be protected under the ruling.
In the biggest deal, No. 46 Yammer, a maker of business social-networking software and a competitor of Jive Software, agreed in June to be acquired by Microsoft Corp.
Svyazinvest was originally conceived both as a holding company for the state's interests in 86 local telephone firms across Russia and as a competitor for Rostelecom, a state-run near-monopoly in long-distance and international telephony.
Okay, let's for get a moment about the competition at the Olympics and talk about a competition between the Olympics telecast and a formidable competitor.
Motorola could also embrace Windows 7 and become a competitor in both the consumer and business sides of this market.
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But that marriage of convenience often comes with strings attached and, if you ever decide to part ways, be prepared for a messy and expensive "divorce" and a potential competitor.
It will doubtless prove to be a capable phone and a worthy competitor to the latest Android gear.
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Inefficiency and incompetence are not punished by "consumers" of their products or services spurning the UN and patronizing a competitor.
At CES, Sony unveiled the Xperia Z, its most recent foray into the high-end smartphone market, and a likely competitor to the iPhone.
"People are tearing things out to plant them, " says Joe Berberian, sales manager for Bee Sweet, among California's top citrus growers and a Cuties competitor.
"They thought Google would just be a technology provider but it has become a portal in its own right and a direct competitor, " he added.
The combination of their solid earnings, great guidance, short covering, and now a competitor closing its doors has given the stock an extremely impressive run.
But its grip is loosening, thanks to some plucky foreign upstarts, a looming antitrust claim filed by a competitor and a misjudgment of the market's appetite for popular video-game slots.
Shane Bond and Daniel Vettori are world-class bowlers: Bond is a phenomenal competitor and Vettori a canny operator.
They said their combination will increase competition across the country because they can offer more connections and be a stronger competitor to United and Delta.
With mobile advertising generating 14% of ad revenue, I feel Facebook is in the game, and will prove to be a monster competitor in advertising and a variety of other products only Facebook could develop.
The sauna marathon should not be confused with the sauna world championships that took place in Finland from 1999 through 2010 and were discontinued after a competitor died and another became sick after sitting too long in extremely hot saunas.
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The mirror-less camera, on the other hand is a macroevolution and will become a strapping competitor for the popular standards: the digital SLR (single-lens reflex) camera and the user-friendly point-and-shoot camera.
Now that AMD has managed to be more than just a thorn in Intel's side, and instead a valid and increasingly threatening competitor, we figured they'd lay off the immature Intel bashing, but AMD's CEO, Hector Ruiz, got a bit whiny the other day during a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
Biglari owns Steak and Shake, a competitor, as well as Western Sizzlin, and has tried (and failed) to gain seats on the board of CBRL over the last 3 years through proxy battles.
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Another microprocessor in development, the Loongson, would use existing software and could eventually become a competitor to Intel and others.
For years, we had a virtual monopoly on the business down there and one day a competitor asked the Mexican state utility why we always got the job.
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First, the entire article is a guy taking an email promotional ad from one company and basically claiming a competitor, ZAGG, is a fraud.
Franklin is already the new face of American swimming, a multi-event competitor and a throwback Olympian who turned down big endorsement offers so she'll be eligible to swim competitively in college.
If a player is cracking jokes with the opposing team, I know that person is not a true competitor and probably not a good fit for our organization.
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