This makes exclusive rebate contracts a potentially significant barrier to entry for new competitors.
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On the other hand, F2P represents a much lower barrier to entry for new players.
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That was followed by links to a Wikipedia entry for "meaning of life" and other sites.
By reducing the barriers to entry for manufacturing, 3D printing should also promote innovation.
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It will create higher standards to entry for new market participants while hindering innovation and competition.
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Moreover, NTT's technical demands acted as a barrier to entry for rivals both domestic and foreign.
All the same, the barriers to entry for new handset-makers are getting ever lower.
Ease of entry for maintenance is a seemingly trivial yet major headache for Mr Bratland.
Be wary of REITs that have bet big on suburbs with low barriers to entry for developers.
One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.
This creates new barriers to entry for new market participants on behalf of the two dominant wireless providers.
Ryan Dolan from Strabane, County Tyrone, has been announced as Ireland's entry for the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
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It is already abolishing an automatic right of entry for applicants from its network of affiliated secondary schools.
Record-company executives argue that marketing will remain the barrier to entry for the expected wave of Internet-based challengers.
Companies like Apple are leading a technology revolution where barriers to entry for consumers have pretty much evaporated.
The decision created even higher thresholds to entry for new market participants, which hinders competition and leads to less innovation.
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With numerous consolidations and acquisitions, U.S. railroads are monopolistic in nature and carry high barriers to entry for new entrants.
In its entry for the Three Peaks Challenge, Wanderlust has suggested the numbers of people taking part should be limited.
The move is the latest in a series of policy changes aimed at lowering the barriers of entry for new banks.
But the H-1B visa battle over legal entry for the highly trained--many from Asia--is also part of the swirling American debate.
The UK entry for the 58th Eurovision Song Contest was written by American songwriter Desmond Child with British songwriters Lauren Christy and Christopher Braide.
The three partners invented the WinSenga as an entry for the 2012 Microsoft East and Southern Africa Imagine Cup competition.
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These are all points of entry for spamming or phishing a userbase, and bots are created to crawl websites looking for exploits.
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Not the least of which is a lower bar of entry for prospective developers, more innovation-spurring competition, and a lot more experimentation.
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Specifically, companies are protecting options and creating barriers to entry for competitors.
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Patent laws stymie growth by creating huge barriers to entry for new entrants and, in some cases, by crowding out current competitors.
Stephen Parkes, 44, from Nottingham, gains an entry for owning the largest collection of Smurf memorabilia - a total of 1, 061 items.
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Finishing touches are now being made to Leeds City Council's entry for the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show which starts on 24 May.
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"There's a greater barrier to entry for the black hats, " Storms said.
Plus, cloud is lowering the barrier of entry for outsourcing providers, which will in turn multiply their numbers, heightening competition and lowering prices.
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