All of this analysis points to a robust competition between the two parties over the past two decades, with no permanent winners or losers and no emerging natural majority for either party.

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Russ Crupnick, senior vice president of industry analysis for NPD, said the competition isn't hurting Apple yet because the iTunes user base is so big.

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It also added that the French competition authority is looking into the deal and is finalising its analysis.

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Ironically, this is how Buffett got started 60 years ago when security analysis was in its infancy, and he had no competition.

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In antitrust lingo, that analysis focuses on the extent to which the merger might reduce effective competition for wireless services.

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Despite a crowded cable landscape filled with political "experts" and around the clock analysis, CNN U.S. president Jon Klein says their competition has left the middle wide open.

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While only 12 percent of the U.S. population is foreign-born, 70 percent of the finalists in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants, according to a National Foundation for American Policy analysis.

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When we did our in-depth analysis, this was a company that certainly faced a whole list of challenges, including competition in its major businesses in switches and routers.

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According to his analysis, the traditional Times franchise had been suffering steady erosion as a result of heightened media competition and the encroachment of the internet.

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