But ISPs and privacy advocates say the DCMA is too wide-ranging, providing too much power to copyright holders at the expense of internet users.
Several European data privacy regulators have also launched an investigation into Google's practices, alleging the company is creating a data goldmine at the expense of unwitting users.
Across sectors, we expect to see value accruing to leading users of Big Data at the expense of laggards, a trend for which the emerging evidence is growing stronger.
Sometimes the business case is doing what users want even if that comes at the expense of maximizing profits.
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This partnership can provide Bing with an advantage over Google if the feature is well received by users and leads to greater use of Bing at the expense of Google.
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The internet company just announced three deals that could serve as something of a new template, one in which much of the content it offers its users is produced not in-house, at great expense, but by outside partners.
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After its acquisition by Yahoo in 2005, some critics believe Flickr got mired in its integration with Yahoo at the expense of pursuing product innovation based on what its loyal band of users would want next.
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The report, from Gartner, sees tablets becoming the dominant form of personal computer (after mobile phones) in the next few years at the expense of traditional desktop PCs, even as total numbers of new users are on the upswing.
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Having announced the pre-sale of its PlayBook tablet on Tuesday, the company is putting its chips on international smartphone users and its audience-specific tablet to reverse the loss of market share it has been suffering at the expense of Apple iPhones and Google fueled Android devices.
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