For Verizon, a failure to complete the deal means a failure to take out an aggressive price competitor.
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The race to put tourists into space has its first price competitor.
The DOJ has also pointed out in its suit the degree to which T Mobile has been an aggressive price competitor and also prone to push new technology to its customers.
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Given how easy it is for a customer to walk across the mall to your competitor, or price shop your products online, your competitive advantage is largely derived from how well you develop a relationship based on trust.
However, leaders of middle market firms should more diligently search for and value competitor acquisitions that will enable price increases.
It turns out that, long before the invention of the iPad, Borders was being menaced by this online competitor that undercuts it on price while outperforming it on service and selection.
The maker of Scotch-brand tape was sued by a competitor who accused 3M of using price rebates to break into the market for private-label tape.
The first is that the paper industry is in many ways a commodity business, and in a commodity business any more than one serious competitor is enough to produce a price war.
First, the price of coal's competitor, natural gas, is decreasing.
For competitor Bristol-Myers Squibb, the ratio of price-to-innovation-adjusted earnings is 9.
This price advantage has made Ion Torrent the main competitor to Illumina, even as other companies such as Pacific Biosciences of California and Complete Genomics failed to make much inroads.
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By contrast, the stock price of Tiffany, a U.S. competitor, has fallen 25% since March.
Refreshed competitor wireless plans show that there is little appetite for aggressive price competition.
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But I suspect that the feature sacrifices will offset the price differential that might otherwise have made the Kindle Fire a significant iPad competitor especially if Apple, as it did with older iPhones, offers a lower-priced iPad 2 in tandem with the iPad 3.
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"Anybody who wanted to do a film of any stature, they'd have to pay the price, " says Scott Ross , a former ILM head who now runs competitor Digital Domain .
The maker of Scotch-brand tape was sued by a competitor who accused 3M (nyse: MMM - news - people ) of using price rebates to break into the market for private-label tape.
Conversely, if a competitor launches a breakthrough product first, companies ought to follow quickly and hopefully at a competitive price point by focusing primarily on the attributes that differentiate it.
Again, with no viable competitor in this lucrative segment GME's earnings should continue to grow with the market, taking its share price along for the ride.
If Microsoft wants to deal a serious blow to its only major competitor in the high-end games console space, it should use some of that corporate weight to drop the price on the next Xbox and make its next console the only logical buy.
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