Apart from its dominant status as the biggest Internet retailer, Amazon has shifted its attention to cloud services, one of the hottest trends in technology.

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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.

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Amid all the sturm und drang, one rarely hears a compelling argument for the dollar retaining its status as a dominant currency particularly given the fiscally-precarious position of the United States.

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In monopolistic cases, according to Almunia, the commission must consider barriers to entry to competitors, whether a company can use its dominant position to affect the status of other companies, and the ease of consumers to switch between services.

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OmniVision shares are trading sharply lower this morning after FBR Capital analyst Craig Berger asserted in a research note that the chip company could be at risk of losing its status as the dominant provider of image sensors for the Apple iPhone.

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Sarkozy also took on the U.S., telling his "friends across the Atlantic", that despite the U.S. dollar's status as the world's dominant currency, the country did not have the right to make all the rules.

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