With mobile phone growth skyrocketing in the continent, price-based competition is becoming vital to tap into the African market share.
Are you planning for direct, indirect, and fear of change based competition?
Life remained good, even after satellite-based competition from DirecTV Group ( DTV) and Dish Network ( DISH) began to tighten things up a bit.
That regulators are willing to breathe life into these intermediaries implies they do not recognize the platform-based competition between Google and Amazon for product searches.
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"The dominant model of science is one of aggressive individual or lab-based competition to break new ground and get the most convincing arguments supported by evidence, " he told me.
It changes the dynamics of market-based competition.
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In the East Room and surrounding chambers, over 100 students -- STEM-based competition winners from 40 different states -- are making their best efforts to remain chipper while explaining projects they've no doubt discussed dozens (if not hundreds) of times before.
The accelerator invites entrepreneurs from all over the world to enroll in its annual Massachusetts-based startup competition, which in 2010 attracted applicant startups from 26 countries.
These free market safety nets would be based on market competition, incentives, and individual choice.
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To bring out the best in those competitors, Maloney and Hodulich constructed an intense competition based on the NFL Combine.
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We do know now that women in the workforce, based on the competition in the office, produce high amounts of testosterone.
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The Fort Worth, Texas-based company faces competition from online sellers and even from the wireless carriers it relies on as partners.
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The Bar Council, which represents barristers in England and Wales, has warned that "a model based on price competition is a blunt instrument".
Germany is hosting the event for the first time, with the competition based at the Ahorn-Sportpark in Paderborn and taking place between 21-27 August.
In next 12-24 months, forward-thinking organizations can differentiate themselves from competition based on how they deliver a mobile experience to their customers and their employees.
More will need to be done to foster political competition based on ideas rather than tribal affiliation, which has now emerged as a threat to democracy across Africa.
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QWERTY, competition based on short-term outcomes certainly produces odd results.
The true costs of health care are disguised, competition based on price and quality are almost impossible, and patients lose their ability to be the ultimate judges of value.
For example, a federal requirement that new cars sold in America be capable of using methanol and ethanol, as well as gasoline, would create markets for such alcohol-based fuels and competition that will drive down gas prices.
There will be 10 live feeds from London 2012, running 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. (London time) (on some days, these will start earlier or finish later based on the competition schedule), plus a 24-hour broadcast of the Olympic News Channel, which includes summaries of the latest results, general reports on different events, and interviews with athletes.
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Irish-based Kerry Foods said competition from rival manufacturers had forced it to consider transferring work to other UK plants.
The idea for a competition-based business first came to founder and CEO Anil Rathi, when he was still a student.
Medicare reforms based on choice and competition have their roots in the Clinton administration's bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare.
The stipulations of the competition were based on a criteria of academic standards like maintaining a healthy GPA, as well as achievements in gaming.
If so--and if Congress determines some form of Internet regulation is needed--the FCC should amend the Communications Act to adopt the competition-based approach recommended here.
Second, the competition that does take place among colleges is reputation-based as opposed to value or price competition.
With the exception of a few vocal libertarians (whose opposition in this instance to competition and market-based decision-making seems inexplicable, not to say bizarre), the idea of fuel competition seems to be one upon which we can all agree.
Like other local storage technologies, optical storage for content distribution faces new competition from cloud based content access.
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Medicare, the government-run insurance scheme for those over 65, could show the way, by making much more use of results-based schemes and encouraging more competition among its various providers and insurers.
Piecyk notes that BTIG on Friday downgraded MetroPCS to Neutral from Buy, while repeating a Sell rating on Leap based his expectation for increased competition in the pre-paid wireless space in 2012.
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