On the other side, Samsung has much more cost advantage since Samsung produce vertically almost anything from CPU to SSD, RAM, touch screen, TV, PC, tablet and smartphone all under one roof.
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Manish Motwani from the Kinetic group known for its motorcycles, has taken advantage of more liberal foreign investment rules.
And it has the advantage of being more First Amendment-friendly by eschewing a priori blanket mandates tied explicitly to the treatment of Internet content.
Australia has more experience with radio astronomy, but South Africa has the advantage of lower costs and ease of access.
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More recently, Amazon has taken advantage of the shift to digitization by developing and launching its Kindle e-reader.
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As the biggest player in the online restaurant reservation industry in North America, OpenTable has a significant competitive advantage with more than 13, 000 of the estimated 30, 000 reservation-taking full-service restaurants in North America as its customers.
Automating more of the rationalization processes has another advantage besides speed and standardization, Sams said.
Permanent insurance is much more expensive, but it has the advantage of offering a level premium for life.
Yet Samsung still enjoys a tax advantage, because it has more flexibility to allocate those profits to the most promising investments anywhere in the world.
Because XP is currency in these games, and whoever has more of it first is at a distinct advantage.
For PC gamers, the game has some nice perks, taking advantage of the more powerful gaming machines out there.
But Mr. Paulson's cold streak has continued, with the Advantage Plus fund down more than 16% this year through June, according to an investor.
According to Alan Francis, analyst at Paribas Asia Equity, productivity gains have enabled Singapore yards to complete jobs more quickly - an important advantage that has allowed them to begin to recover some of the business lost to West Asia rivals.
Dr Williams and Dr Mattingley suspect the reason for this is that being able to spot an angry individual quickly has a survival advantage and, since anger is more likely to turn into lethal violence in men than in women, the ability to spot angry males quickly is particularly valuable.
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The clarity of a written constitution may give America an advantage over many European countries, where unwritten custom has more sway.
Modern Library's is the more elegant, inviting translation, but Wesleyan's has the advantage of including all 150 of the gorgeous woodcuts created for the original French 1870 version.
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Virtu also has the advantage of having a private equity backer willing to inject more cash if the takeover is successful.
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Hamilton has said he has more fuel on board than Alonso, which could give him a strategy advantage in the race.
At least within a sport I think it has to be the same, otherwise schools with more money will have the advantage.
Michigan (30-7) prefers to get in the open court as much as possible, a style that is even more advantageous against a team such as Syracuse, which has a size advantage at almost every position.
One advantage Enflick has in the crowded space is that it already has more than 12 million users of PingChat, who will be migrated to the new Touch app.
Each level of card has varying and increasingly more complex perks, but the benefit most consumers can actually take advantage of is available on the lower fee cards.
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In brief, whereas hustlers have gradually been losing their information advantage with respect to investors (resulting in the balance of power collapsing), hackers have generally been gaining information advantage with respect to both, as Internet-era technology has gotten more complex and specialized.
One solution would be to tax mobiles and Voip like any other sort of phone call, but the committee has also suggested the more radical option of a general tax on telecommunications, with the advantage that it will cover any future technologies too, instead of forcing the law to play catch-up every few years.
If another country has a comparative cost advantage, we gain from exchanging such products for those we produce relatively more efficiently.
Today, more than a quarter of retirees get their coverage through Medicare Advantage, and the program has experienced rapid growth over the past decade.
The researchers took advantage of data from the long-term Nurses' Health Study, which has enrolled more than 230, 000 female registered nurses since 1976 and which surveys them every two years.
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For many PlayStation 3 owners, at least in Hong Kong, the console is little more than a Blu-ray DVD player -- nonetheless, one clear advantage it has over its gaming competitors.
He has also steered largely clear of more volatile sectors, such as technology, where he cannot be sure that a company has a sustainable advantage.
In a blog post about the California veto, law professor Orin Kerr contended that "Governor Brown has it exactly backwards" because legislatures tend to move far more quickly than the courts -- an important advantage when dealing with issues that involve fast-changing technology.
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