Yet another factor in antitrust is whether a company is using its dominant power to discourage competition.
The 1998 master tobacco settlement between the state AGs and the tobacco industry created a legal (according to some) cartel that protected Philip Morris and the other dominant cigarette manufacturers against competition, something they could never accomplish on their own.
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Antitrust is the fatal conceit that says government officials can and should break up certain dominant companies in order to maintain competition in the marketplace.
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Though Google has a dominant market share in search, competition is heating up, most notably from Facebook ( FB), which recently announced Graph Search, as it looks to enter the lucrative search business.
The basic thought is that as Google is a dominant company it has to act in a certain manner, a more restrained manner with respect to competition than a company which is not in a dominant position has to.
But Tilera faces competition from Intel, the dominant maker of server processors.
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Apple, formerly the darling of the antitrust world as the plucky underdog that fought Microsoft and managed to survive the experience, is now perceived as a dominant firm with the ability to thwart competition.
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Mr Sarkozy also called for an inquiry by French competition authorities into whether Google abuses its dominant position in the internet-ad market.
Another problem with all the hubbub is the discussion now is about the arcane rules and not the competition itself, which may be the dominant story the rest of the weekend especially if Woods wins, of course.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has officially encouraged the creation of dark pools to compete with the dominant NYSE and Nasdaq exchanges to offer the best price competition.
The move by Euro BETC may signify a less homogenized ad world, as the dominant Anglo-Saxon agencies start facing not only Gallic competition, but also Latin American and Asian competitors.
You have to give credit to Australia - they were the dominant team on the day, and from the start of the competition, so you have to say they deserved their success.
But competition from Apple would be far more daunting, given its dominant position in the digital music business.
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Wenger attempted to shrug off controversy by claiming that the Gunners were the dominant side as they booked their place in the group stages of the competition.
"The dominant model of science is one of aggressive individual or lab-based competition to break new ground and get the most convincing arguments supported by evidence, " he told me.
Google currently is the dominant figure in general search queries, but it hardly is insulated against competition and undoubtedly will face further competition from new sources (including a potential new search engine from Facebook), just as Facebook will face rising competition from different social networks.
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Retaining a dominant position is a difficult thing to do, particularly as bigger and better competition emerges, as Apple has seen.
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Intel ( INTC) has long been known as a dominant hardware producer, with market share for its processors dwarfing that of the competition.
Globo was still the dominant media company, but audience share was beginning to shrink, faced with competition from Hollywood and other Brazilian programmers.
Houston's Bush Intercontinental shows how airlines at dominant hubs with lots of business travelers increasingly seem to be ignoring cheaper pricing competition at secondary airports in big cities.
If proven, the allegations would be an infringement on the part of all the parties of competition law and on the part of GlaxoSmithKline an abuse of its dominant place in the market.
In the PC operating system market, the 1980s were a period of intense competition and rapid innovation, followed by the 1990s when Windows became utterly dominant and the pace of innovation slowed.
As you might imagine, becoming the dominant player in electronics component manufacturing in China -- particularly at a time when competition has never been fiercer -- takes a particular personality type, and after reading BusinessWeek's profile of Foxconn founder Terry Gou, you get a very real sense that the dude meets the criteria.
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Dominant brands used to be able to, well, dominate by simply outspending or outshouting the competition.
Stiff competition among low-fare carriers like Southwest Airlines and Frontier Airlines (along with the dominant United Airlines) has reduced average fares to and from Denver by about 28% over the last decade.
There are several strains running through the history of management theory, and which paradigms are dominant, and at which consulting firms, depends on the economic times and the nature of the competition.
Apple, perhaps the guiltiest of all the gardeners, is not satisfied with having disrupted all of its competition and taken over various markets, particularly digital music distribution, where arguably it holds dominant firm status.
To the European competition authorities, it is arguing that the closure of private-sector nuclear plants unfairly boosts the dominant market position of the state-owned utility, Vattenfall.
However, while Qualcomm continues to be the dominant player in the high-growth mobile chipset market, its market share is taking a hit due to growing competition from Broadcom and MediaTek, both of which have benefited from the popularity of low-end Android handsets in emerging markets.
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