Competitor Google, meanwhile, has copied a page straight out of the old Microsoft playbook: It is trying to use its dominance of one area--namely, online search--to strangle a competitor in another area.

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Competitor Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), meanwhile, has copied a page straight out of the old Microsoft playbook: It is trying to use its dominance of one area--namely, online search--to strangle a competitor in another area.

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But a competitor in the area, a firm run by the gangsters themselves, would obviously not be subjected to that kind of cost.

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General Secretary Mick Whelan said the driver shortage had been caused by a number of factors including a competitor in the area offering higher salaries.

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They were at the initial launch of Places a few months ago, but since then, Foursquare has made it fairly clear that it sees Facebook as a competitor in this area.

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Jonah Shaknai and his team have done a tremendous job in building Medicis into a tough, fierce competitor in the derm and aesthetics area, and without similarly charged and focused management, some of its competitiveness could be eroded though such a deal.

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When a nation loses sales to a foreign competitor in one line of work, that merely shifts its area of comparative advantage.

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