European regulators in particular seem to enjoy making Microsoft pay for its hyper-competitive behavior.
Does this amount to anti-competitive behavior, as some legal experts told The Wall Street Journal it might?
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In the realm of anti-competitive behavior, the focus of the FTC investigation, Google is little different from AOL.com, Yahoo.com and MSN.com in fundamental strategy.
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Not all women have played in organized sports and therefore have not learned appropriate competitive behavior that can then be applied in work situations.
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Medical insurance companies have special legal protections that promote anti-competitive behavior.
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On the surface, that reasoning seems to fall within the intended purpose of antitrust laws in the U.S., which is to discourage anti-competitive behavior and unfair business practices.
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As the efforts by Google competitors to persuade the FTC to sue Google suggest, antitrust authorities in the United States and elsewhere have sometimes confused competitive behavior with anticompetitive behavior.
The wild card, however, is how it will address the iPhone issue and how analysts will weigh the risks posed by the image damage and legal actions regarding anti-competitive behavior that appear to be building traction.
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For those businesses leveraging curated content, the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning will be a competitive advantage as more data and behavior points are made accessible.
In Singapore, we sought employees who could demonstrate "aggressive hospitality" toward guests, rather than "speak when spoken to" behavior, to create a competitive edge within a society that is not traditionally service-based.
Aggressive behavior during negotiations can lead people to use competitive tactics to defend and protect their own interests .
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Market leaders have been storing and analyzing multi-data types not only to gain competitive advantage but also to achieve deeper insights into customer behavior patterns that directly impact their business.
Law makers must sometimes find it simply irresistible to craft laws meant to govern our fractious, competitive, emotionally labile, and frankly, mysterious, human behavior.
Open allocation seems too insane to work until you consider how terribly closed allocation works: unnecessary turnover, bad behavior resulting from a need for visibility amid a competitive transfer market, warring departments and teams, and extremely low motivation.
Either way, that behavior can set the stage for a new and more competitive platform.
"Now courts are much better at recognizing how behavior can be anticompetitive even if it's characterized by a pro-competitive veneer, " Balto says.
In two years as the parent of a competitive chess player, I can say without a doubt that I have never witnessed any untoward behavior by parents.
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