Monsanto failed to view weeds as a competitor that would react to their innovation.
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Gallanter courted venture capitalists, too, posing less as a competitor than a companion to their services.
B, and may be seeking better terms by threatening to set up as a competitor.
Mr. Rose, Facebook's vice president of partnerships, said the company doesn't think of Yahoo as a competitor.
And the company discontinued its free music-download service, intended as a competitor to Apple's iTunes, in several markets.
Get me 20%, and we can talk about somebody else as a competitor.
Many have cast NYPC as a competitor to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which currently handles 98% of US futures trading.
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Dangermond doesn't see Google as a competitor ("We like those guys"), but he admits his software needed to be prettier and quicker.
Indeed: as a competitor for Russia in the early 1990s, Mrs Engquist was given a ban for four years (later rescinded) for using, yes, anabolic steroids.
They wanted to change their life around and decided upon a new start-up venture: a coffee cafe chain envisioned as a competitor to the industry giant, Starbucks.
After this merger, if it is allowed to proceed, T Mobile will be erased as a competitor and as a downward pressure on prices for the industry.
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Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle, the second largest provider of ERP software, said on an earnings call that his company has identified cloud-based Workday as a competitor.
He made several references to Microsoft, both as a competitor and as a company that had itself been in the anti-trust hot seat more than a decade earlier.
Back then, pundits were just starting to view Facebook as a competitor to Google, Facebook had begun experimenting with ads, and had just gotten through the Beacon privacy debacle.
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If Buzz has broad uptake and collects enough opinions, it could serve as a competitor not just to Facebook and Twitter for status updates, but for review sites like Yelp.
On the one hand, Intel is taking more knitting in, but could still be viewed as a competitor with its own interest in penetrating the high-mobility market with its low-power Atom chips.
They were at the initial launch of Places a few months ago, but since then, Foursquare has made it fairly clear that it sees Facebook as a competitor in this area.
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.
"As a competitor and as a passionate players with the Ryder Cup, the Spanish have been a fantastic asset to our team over the years, starting with Seve Ballesteros, through Jose Olazabal and Miguel Angel Jimenez, " said Montgomerie.
Making things even more complicated is VMware must now walk the line as both a member of the OpenStack Foundation, which puts it in a tough position as both a contributor as well as a competitor to the OpenStack project.
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When an American family controls its own health care financing, has a wide variety of low-cost, innovative choices, and receives insurance through a sponsor they trust, insurance policies will only disappear when the family decides it doesn't serve them as well as a competitor would.
Still, Russia sees the EU as a competitor in its sphere of influence and reacts fiercely to any interference, such as Belarus being told that recognising South Ossetia and Abkhazia would hurt its prospects with the EU. That the summit was followed by a conference on Nabucco, a gas pipeline meant to bypass Russia in the south, was just another irritation.
Indeed, Washington sees the re-emergence of Russia as an arms and nuclear-plant supplier to China less as a security threat than as a tougher competitor in the world market.
While all that was happening, Novatel's card business in Europe was under pricing pressure from competitor Sierra Wireless as well as a European competitor, Option.
Huawei has emerged as a major competitor to the likes of Nokia Siemens Networks and has ambitions to become a major provider to U.S. companies, but has drawn criticism for selling equipment and service to Iran.
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Sina, for example, is emerging as a serious competitor to Tencent and Baidu in China.
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And Instagram started out as a Foursquare competitor, but then scrapped the idea in favor of photo sharing.
As is well known, the military bloc NATO was founded not as our friend and comrade but as a military competitor.
Most Democrats support the public option as a nonprofit competitor to private insurers that would expand coverage and bring down prices.
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