Or, it forcibly bars future access to new customers by a dominant firm.
That system permits any company, no matter how small or large, to aspire to become the dominant firm in its market, driving competitors out.
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.
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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None, it is convinced, not even a firm as dominant as Intel, which has had previous run-ins with antitrust enforcers, remotely resembles Microsoft.
Still, given its dominant market position (the firm controls more than 50% of the worldwide market for insulin), Novo Nordisk stock merits its premium valuation.
The result was a striking lack of any consensus, and no firm emerged as particularly dominant.
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The merged firm would also be dominant in aluminium, uranium and coking coal.
The world's dominant economic powers should give it a firm push forward.
But when push comes to shove, they are likely to be set aside and the firm will revert to the dominant paradigm of management: managers controlling individuals within a framework of hierarchical bureaucracy.
The company's rapid expansion has helped it grow into the dominant player in an evolving industry: a nonbank firm that manages hundreds of billions of dollars in home loans on behalf of investors who own the loans through mortgage securities.
The firm has also been slammed by resurgent sales at dominant rival McDonald's.
The firm has also been slammed by resurgent sales at dominant rival McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people ).
But who is going to be the dominant force in smart TV - the Asian hardware manufacturers, or the search firm which has already made its mark on the smartphone industry?
The Chinese firm said that InterDigital had been trying to take advantage of the dominant position it enjoys in the sector and despite negotiations the two firms had not been able to reach an agreement.
More recently, the firm leveraged its market leadership in selling physical books online to become the dominant vendor of e-readers, leaving potential rivals such as Sony unable to gain much traction.
Content providers are likely to welcome a major technology firm such as Intel with open arms just to make sure Apple does not become dominant in providing video content.
The newly appointed chief executive said the firm needed to ensure that it continued to satisfy its customers if it was to maintain its dominant position.
Next they proposed to scotch Mittal by merging with Severstal, an opaque metals firm controlled by a Russian tycoon who, without launching a bid, was to become the dominant shareholder of the combined group.
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