And no firm has an incentive to commit itself unilaterally to uniform pricing, since that would not prevent rivals coming after its clients.
Alliances seem even more useful when companies are not potential rivals at all, but firms that are at different points on the same value chain.
Not for him, the Olympian posture of disdaining ones rivals as not worth the breath required to trash them.
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Focusing his attacks on Obama and not his Republican rivals was also a smart tactic.
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But Mr Gilmer argues that the cities are not so much rivals as partners.
Harris says he is not worried about rivals moving in on his business model yet.
Training partner, Jon Drummond, has warned Greene's rivals not to underestimate the Olympic and double world champion.
BAA, as the owner of Gatwick and Stansted as well, made sure that it did not create any rivals.
"The secret of retaining them is not worrying about rivals but instead, it is about making Microsoft the best place to work, " he says.
The long list of combatants, each of them coming at it from different angles, includes not only familiar rivals Google, Yahoo, and AOL, but also a handful of ambitious ad tech companies such as Mediaocean, AppNexus, and Operative, and software companies Microsoft, Adobe, and Oracle.
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On the other hand, he is not exactly trouncing his rivals in New York city either.
Yet even as he was fixing Allied Domecq, his rivals have not stood idle.
Like libraries, Google and its search rivals do not assume responsibility for the content that they catalog.
It is the boldest newspaper venture in Canadian history and a controversial one, not just among his rivals.
This advantage is unsustainable, of course: for if Novartis succeeds in China, its rivals will not be far behind.
Still, if the secular opposition parties are weak, their Islamist rivals are not necessarily as lusty as they seem.
The hardest task will be coming up with programming that its rivals do not already have a version of.
Even healthy banks have been arm-twisted into accepting taxpayers' money so that weaker rivals would not stand out for doing so.
The Original Six rivals have not met in the playoffs since 1973.
Microsoft likes to say its hypercompetitive business practices hurt rivals, not consumers.
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BT's rivals were not all that keen on a break-up.
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This tradition of charity was not extended to business rivals.
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Henin was tested to the limit by last year's surprise U.S. Open semifinalist Wickmayer before going through 7-6 1-6 6-3 but her two Russian rivals were not so fortunate.
To become first secretary, a candidate simply needs more votes than his rivals, not an overall majority of the assembly, so Mr Michael is almost certain to be re-elected.
But they said as some rivals do not communicate the speeds the majority of their customers get, they find the authorities' failure to address the issues that really matter to consumers deeply frustrating.
Ford is currently in negotiations with potential dealers with a goal to establish an independent dealer network for the model that will offer a new level of personalized service not currently offered by rivals.
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