Music mogul Simon Fuller has settled a copyright battle with TV network Fox over the US version of The X Factor.
The battle for your network revolves increasingly around information superiority.
Despite the fact that, under Irish law, it will have to take the IDPC to court rather than Facebook, the group still sees it as a battle with the social network.
The music war is on as companies battle to build the largest network of users.
From combined arms warfare, to AirLand Battle, to maneuver, to network-centric warfare, this has been the trend.
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The battle will come down to which network consumers perceive as superior.
David Petraeus argued they would have a "destabilizing effect" on Pakistan and other U.S. partners in the battle against the al Qaeda terrorist network.
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And part of the fund-raising credit goes to Gephardt, who abandoned his own presidential ambitions last year to devote his energy and his own vast national network to the House battle.
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Some also reflect with bitterness that Kenyans were not specifically targeted by al-Qaeda - those killed were bystanders caught up a battle between a superpower and the Islamist militant network.
Some analysts suggest that Reliance might prefer to wait until its GSM network has settled down before joining the battle for 3G customers.
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Even when he appears on television, such as for the Ackman battle royale, Icahn phones in, and the network flashes a years-old stock photo as he speaks.
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Where Bert Danner falters in his analysis is in assuming that the mobile platform battle will play out like desktop computing, where network effects yielded near monopoly-level dominance to Microsoft.
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In addition, the TV network has unleashed a social game, Battle For Nuceria ( www.battlefornuceria.com), which offers new ways for fans to connect with the show that was created by Steven S. DeKnight (watch video below).
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The first topic of the interview involved Twitter's battle with Google regarding the latter seeming to favor its own social network in search results over its rivals'.
There are also other players fighting for positions in this battle: Ericsson, Huawei, Cisco, Alcatel Lucent and Nokia Siemens Network have all intensified their ambitions, already being big suppliers in the ecosystem.
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The social network's IPO will also set the stage for an epic battle between the titans of the tech industry.
But if they do, that may just be the start of a protracted battle between companies and councillors about who should be in charge of the bus network.
Sheen's battle with producers is in sharp contrast to the kind words he had for them earlier this month when he thanked network executives for their support.
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