These interactions range from direct to indirect and include customers, prospects, and even competitors.
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Griffith proved what many had suspected for some time: that edits on company profiles were often originating from IP addresses owned by those companies and even their competitors.
Today, however, corporations need to partner with civil society organizations, governments, supply chain managers and even with their own competitors.
The anchor tenants that set norms encouraging the free flow of ideas and collaboration, even with competitors, produced enduringly successful communities, while those that mainly sought to dominate did not.
Allowing this could cause a widespread fare sale that would trigger price matching and even more fare cutting by competitors.
It's all quite beautiful and even integrates with its popular competitors.
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President Obama would complexify it even more and his wannabee competitors are falling all over each other in their efforts to give huge tax cuts to the rich and plunge us into bankruptcy even faster.
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In the components industry, as in many other industrial and consumer goods industries in China, there are hundreds, even thousands, of individual customers and competitors, which include state-owned companies, private companies and foreign invested enterprises.
The telecom industry in China has seen steady growth as even competitors China Mobile and China Telecom saw growth in their subscriber base.
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Last time around it noted how few of its "Top 200" titles were even offered by competitors and this time around noted Amazon Prime is up to 74 from 73, and didn't mention Redbox at all.
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Big companies have the lawyers and the money to build ring fences of utility and design patents around their products so only the largest and best-financed competitors can even think of entering their markets, he said.
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Yet you acknowledge that people trust its two biggest competitors, Apple and Amazon even more.
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This has not only hurt Apple, but has hurt the landscape of Android competitors like HTC and Motorola even more.
Moreover, you can hear what people are saying about your brand and even pick up on some tidbits regarding your competitors as well.
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That is likely to make them turn their attentions abroad, even as international competitors such as Santander and BNP Paribas start to gain ground in their home markets.
Horton, whose bonds are expensive compared with its competitors, even though Bryan says Lennar and KB Home look better in many respects.
Everywhere you look, there are radical opportunities for simplification that help you delight your customers, disrupt your competitors, and create new value that can even garner a premium.
As Howard points out, your disgruntled employees, audit committees, competitors, vendors and suppliers, and potentially even your own friends can purposely or unwittingly become a part of the resulting bad reputation and press.
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Even as some of our U.S. and European competitors have been reducing exposure in Asia, Citibank continues to grow its share substantially in most places.
Sure, there were impressive competitors, including HP, Data General , and even mighty IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people), but DEC was the defining force in the field.
While such devices continue to improve, handsets such as the Treo 650, Sony Ericsson P910, and HP iPaq h6315 are fraught with compromises and high prices even after carrier subsidy when compared to their closest competitors.
Even though they're usually fierce competitors, Comcast and Time Warner are working together on this deal, thanks to a complicated relationship that's the result of an earlier acquisition.
The largest dozen banks were quickly handed hundreds of billions of dollars, with few restrictions on how the money was to be used, and encouraged, in some cases even forced, to acquire their weaker competitors.
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For the moment, Dubai holds the title of Islamic banking hub--but it could soon lose ground, both to traditional competitors like Bahrain and newcomers on the scene like London and even Singapore.
Even more so, the driven media mogul loved toying with and trumping his competitors in deal-making.
VMware also benefits by creating even more demand for its cloud-level operating system, and staves off competitors that also want to create meta-server environments, like Microsoft.
The coalition, nicknamed iAdvance, has repeatedly cited federal rules limiting RBOCs to serving local calling areas, even for data traffic, and requiring them to resell their data services to competitors.
What I see in retrospect is that more than any other company in the defense business, General Dynamics has looked to the numbers to decide how it should deploy its capital, even when that meant adopting a strategy completely contrary to what competitors and analysts were recommending.
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Google and its competitors save copies of Web pages in a database that makes the pages accessible even when links to the site have been taken down.
It goes beyond simply sliding your business card across the table and is much more about really getting to know other professionals (some who may even be your competitors).
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