Yet tough competition in its core business at home is leading Wahaha to look into new businesses.
Consequently, it is those core features that stoke direct competition against national currencies and bitcoin possesses all three.
Baidu has faced growing competition in its core search business from Qihoo, putting pressure the profitability of its once high-flying main profit engine.
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Peacetime in business means those times when a company has a large advantage vs. the competition in its core market, and its market is growing.
And as a game with competition as the core, one may think that this fact alone would make Kings and Legends a rather dubious gameplay experience.
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He proposes that the core of strategy is defeating the competition.
While we remain constructive on the demand outlook longer term for network infrastructure, our view is that Cisco is currently struggling to maintain financial performance as competition intensifies in its core markets while forays into newer markets with lower margins are negatively impacting EPS growth.
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The most recent earnings announcement after the competition served to validate our core thesis.
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At the same time, be sure to preserve the core skills that separate your company from the competition.
Supporters say Common Core prepares students for college and for global competition better than earlier state standards.
The resulting competition is driving prices down for core MDM products, and, like a balloon being squeezed, is forcing the vendors in this market to offer additional capabilities to differentiate.
Also similar to the competition, it starts with a Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, a hybrid storage solution (albeit with a piddly 320GB HDD) and a 1, 366 x 768 display.
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In addition, contestants of the Social Venture Competition needed to address the social impact of their ventures, while those of the Technology Venture Competition were asked to describe their core technology.
You never want to change the core of the show, no matter what the competition is doing, because that's what people come back for.
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The sale leaves Motorola with a healthy stockpile of cash that it can invest in its core mobile phone business, where it faces fierce competition from Apple, Nokia and others.
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Though the videodisc is not at the core of Microsoft's business, this is a competition Gates plans to win.
And now, for the first time in many years, powerful new competition is beginning to emerge in Microsoft's core markets.
However, faced with competition from the storage market leader EMC in its core unified storage market, NetApp may find it increasingly hard to gain further market share.
That is, it has to stay true to what made it a winner with consumers in the first place, the core elements of its DNA which set it apart from the competition and that were relevant to people.
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Among its flaws, the bill "destroys choice and competition for private insurance and fails to address the core challenge facing small businesses--cost, " wrote Susan Eckerly, top lobbyist for the National Federation of Independent Business, in a letter to House members.
Make no mistake about it, folks, this is where your dual-core processor will run circles, squares, and trapezoids around the competition.
Google.org wants competition for ideas and projects, and like Google's core businesses, plans to make future moves based on feedback from earlier investments.
Yahoo has faced numerous challenges in recent quarters with its core graphical- and video-ad sales, as it faces increased competition from Google Inc.
Ironically, at the core of competitive strategy is deception, and Groupon holding out baits to entice the competition to promote the category while killing off the smaller players that are flanking it.
In fact, while we have welcomed the competition from the players on the fringe, I would like to think the core of the squad have enjoyed the faith we have shown in them for most of the season.
Then you can focus your energy on the core client group, and keep these folks so happy that they will never leave you for the competition.
Also driving the mergers: the need to boost listings, a core source of revenue for the exchanges as they battle to preserve their share of trading volume against competition from new market entrants like Kansas City-based BATS Trading, which siphons about 8% of Nasdaq's daily volume and 5% of NYSE volume.
At its core, health reform is all about ensuring that American families and businesses have more choices, benefit from more competition, and have greater control over their own health care.
Competition in the low-end market is getting fiercer by the day, but having a quad-core solution will help Qualcomm defend its market share better without having to cut prices.
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Good thing, however, is that EA is not shying away from direct competition, and instead most of its awaited products slated for release next quarter challenges its competitors in their core gaming genres.
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