Bloomberg, it turns out, is a pretty tough competitor in the data space.
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In a Big Data world, a competitor that fails to sufficiently develop its capabilities will be left behind.
This time the charge was that the computer giant had hamstrung a much smaller competitor, Minneapolis-based Control Data Corp.
Once your competitor gets a culture of leveraging data to complement their insight, they will be very hard to catch.
"We draw the line at agency reference to or reliance on Genentech trade secret and confidential commercial data and information to approve a competitor's product, " the petition states.
And, for Facebook, making a profit directly from Instagram may have been less important than locking up its user data and taking a rapidly growing competitor, now with more than 40 million users, off of the playing field.
Symantec competes with McAfee in the security software market for consumers as well as businesses, while its major competitor in storage software market is EMC-acquired Data Domain.
And Microsoft has a history of shutting down its Internet services (including FolderShare, an early file-syncing competitor to Dropbox) or even downright losing consumer data (eg Danger phones).
The competitor they most fear is Cisco Systems, the company that dominates the corporate-data world, supplies more than 80% of the equipment that powers the Internet and is now increasingly selling equipment to telecoms carriers too.
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So far, NASA and Harvard researchers have collected data on why people participate in prizes and how the size of the competitor pool affects the outcome, says Jason Crusan, NASA's chief technologist for human exploration and operations.
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The information that AOL revealed is essentially the same type of data that the U.S. Department of Justice demanded from the company and its search competitor Google in March.
The information that AOL revealed is essentially the same type of data that the U.S. Department of Justice demanded from the company and its search competitor Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) in March.
This year, analyst feedback prompted us to apply a revenue multiple of 3.5, in between that of FactSet, the highly profitable financial data firm (approx 5 x sales), and slightly sluggish Thomson Reuters, a direct competitor (just under 2 x sales).
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