"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.
The fact is that drug companies have a huge financial stake in making sure patients take the drugs they make, and offering samples is one way to get patients to buy theirs over a competitor's product.
How can you compete with a competitor who gives the product out for free?
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So, why is Google paying for the development of a competitor to its own product?
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Creating disparity between my product and the competitor would require to high level conversation and too much time.
And the professional circuit attracts a loyal audience, one in which Sponsorship Report, a sponsorship industry newsletter, says a fan is 72% more likely to use a sponsor's product than a competitor's.
After recovering from the shock of what had happened, Tom was quickly picked up by a competitor and was soon leading successful product development teams again.
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Imagine if you could see the index of your product marketing vs. your competitor?
What are the chances that Jane, buried deep in the sales organization, will be able to use what she has learned to help get this new product to market before a competitor does?
In late July, Facebook launched the beta version of Questions, a question-and-answer product that seems to be a direct competitor of Quora.
Maybe you build it into your product or service in a way that no competitor (having not acted) could imagine.
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Once it rolls that product out, it will be a fierce competitor with other ad networks whose imperfect knowledge about you is gleamed from dropping cookies and tracking your browser activity.
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With the upcoming announcement for potential competitor in the toy-meets-video-game product, Disney Infinity, it will be interesting to see if this spurs Activision to get more of the remaining figures out to retail sooner.
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It provides 360-degree intelligence about their product interests, category interests, brand interests and competitor loyalty.
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If RIMM is liquidated it will be an issue of an inferior product or a lack of productivity vis a vis a competitor.
The company later added ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Flash to its product and platform list via an acquisition of its former competitor, Macromedia, and is currently developing a suite of cloud-based solutions focused on the social and analytics spaces.
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Add an antagonistic factor: if your product is the best it is always important to have a competitor or rival.
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Already, many companies who employ social media monitoring services are starting to keep track of the influencers relative to their product and service bases: all the press, analysts, influential competitor voices, influential user groups, bloggers, and so on.
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Bigger companies that take too long to launch a new brand or product, and are out-innovated by a scrappy startup or hungrier competitor.
Armed with guts--and the product to back them up in battle--some upstarts pick a fight with a bigger competitor.
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