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Meet Hugh Lyman, the winner of the competition, who challenges any pre-conceived notions about 21st century inventors and entrepreneurs.
He said Icetech had been facing two challenges - competition from cheaper Chinese imports and last year's collapse of the Comet electrical goods chain.
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Nadoll called the company's outlook promising, despite challenges like tighter competition.
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.
In October, Anne Milton, public health minister for England, told MPs that a minimum price per unit could be open to legal challenges relating to European competition law.
Despite crawling its way back to the top, Toyota still faces major challenges, such as intense competition not only from U.S. automakers but leaner rivals like Hyundai of South Korea and Volkswagen of Germany.
Two significant challenges remain: seeing off the competition and attracting a new type of reader.
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With mobile, digital and social media each playing a significant role marketers are faced with even more daunting challenges to stand out from the competition.
Starbucks is always going to face challenges: commodity pricing, growth in competition, consumer spending, etc.
But the U.S. still poses significant challenges for newcomers, given the intense competition among investors.
Other potential challenges include increasingly saturated markets, rising competition and Internet gambling.
Still, adds Dunne, Japan's auto sector faces growth challenges because of regional politics in Asia, global competition and a lack of innovation which a weaker yen cannot help.
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The competition commissioner said he was "not worried" by the threat of legal challenges.
Good thing, however, is that EA is not shying away from direct competition, and instead most of its awaited products slated for release next quarter challenges its competitors in their core gaming genres.
While this technology still has a long way to go, challenges such as NASA's October 21 First Annual Space Elevator Competition at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley are spurring design teams to push the limits of both their robots and the super-strong, carbon nanotube-based ribbons that are key to supporting them.
An aging rider base and competition from lighter bikes have taken a major toll already, and Harley faces serious challenges into the future.
What he meant by those words was the simultaneous challenges of tackling the deficit whilst preparing the country to face the growing competition posed by the world's new fast-growing economies.
There were big challenges, crazy rewards that only a few people had on each server, and serious competition between guilds and factions.
The competition aims to encouraging students in the UK to consider and define some of the current and emerging challenges facing freedom of the press, both within the UK and globally.
Rather than be brought down by your technical challenges, relish them as the gate that will keep at least some of the potential competition from sharing in the rewards waiting on the other side of getting your startup built.
The necessary effort to systematize the competition around inputs then, by definition, works against innovation which leads in part to the challenges we see in the current Race to the Top District draft rules.
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In this fast-moving space, of course challenges remain, including the need to unleash even more spectrum for mobile broadband and continuing to promote competition and protect consumers.
Yahoo has faced numerous challenges in recent quarters with its core graphical- and video-ad sales, as it faces increased competition from Google Inc.
But the list also reflects challenges faced by many industries: How can online journals and newspapers effectively increase their traffic given the stiff competition from other sources?
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The competition kicked off on MTV.com on July 7 with the 20 candidates competing in a series of five Twitter challenges created with ZYNC from American Express that ranged from discovering a local band to interviewing celebrities including Sean Kingston.
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