Digital Realty continued its acquisition spree during the quarter as part of its long-term investment objectives, which focus on investing in institutional-quality data center facilities in high-barrier-to-entry markets that have significant potential to generate attractive risk-adjusted ROI.
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These include Nokia's tactical decision not to meet certain aggressive pricing of some competitors, as well as overall market competition, including the entry markets, and the temporary impact of a slower ramp-up of a mid-range Nokia device.
As a result, consumer and business confidence is at very low readings, and stock markets around the world are in serious corrections, many down more than the 20% that marks their entry into bear markets.
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Others provide entry into commodities markets or let you buy a group of commodity producers.
Entry into African markets now depends more on the nature of the development, it says in a recent report.
However, even with higher risk, many retailers view entry into emerging markets urgent given the opportunity to establish stores in good locations before the competition.
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To set the stage for an easier entry into foreign markets, Zhang is currently looking for overseas partners and claims to have signed preliminary agreements in dozens of countries.
On the other hand, the majors' strengthening of the hub-and-spoke networks (by which travelers go from A to B via a hub in airport C) imply that entry into new markets -- what in the industry is called "city-pairs" -- is relatively simple.
Mr Le Gallais said the entry in to Asian markets had proved successful, with local products already for sale in India.
Also, because the Australians have gained faster entry to some foreign markets, they may offer distribution deals to U.S. wine exporters.
We applied this strategy in founding BlaBlaCar, as the risk of competitors mushrooming and barring our entry into important neighbouring markets was too great.
These include opening the doors of credit for the poor, simplifying and reducing barriers of entry, liberating education markets, expanding access to clean water, and improving the rule of law.
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Watson explains that what was once a niche sector is now seeing barriers to entry fall, but markets have yet to realize that the underlying value of pipeline assets is substantially higher than the market value of those companies.
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In the past, there would have been too many barriers to entry to get into new markets quickly.
And the emerging markets, where entry-level smartphones have sold relatively well, are subject to pricing pressures from competitors.
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Samsung, for example, might have abandoned its entry into the car and aircraft markets.
But using HTML5 also lowers the price point for a entry-level smartphones in emerging markets.
It blamed competition from cheap entry-level products in emerging markets, a category it does not participate in.
By standardizing more of its technology, Harman can now profitably serve the entry luxury and mid-luxury markets where it has traditionally lacked a competitive product.
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Representing the next generation of CCTV monitoring for home and business use, Samsung's new all-in-one HDTV kits deliver high-definition video recording and shatter the barrier to entry that once existed for these markets.
Financial markets are implicitly forecasting an entry rate of about 72p, or DM2.70.
However, determined to be the frontrunner in the global technology revolution and focused to stay abreast changing consumer preferences, the company marked its entry in the lucrative smartphone and tablet markets earlier this year.
The approach, popular in India and other developing markets, helped Nokia increase its entry-level phone sales by 8% last quarter.
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But stories like this are a reminder that many of the technologies that come to us initially as retail opportunities are also at work lowering barriers to entry into an ever-broadening number of markets, and making innovation available to a greater number of people around the world.
Nokia have made noise with new smartphone models that will target the entry level smartphone market, particularly in the emerging markets.
Heading into the third quarter, although growth in developed markets may stall, Samsung aims to expand its presence in emerging markets with region-specific products and entry-level LED TVs.
"There is value in the market for very well-located retail assets in secondary markets, where there are high barriers to entry and good demographic fundamentals, " he says.
Unlike America, Europe is a patchwork of smallish markets with varying regulatory and economic barriers to entry, including a requirement to register new drugs in each EU country.
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