However, both Amazon and Apple are so far ahead that it will be hard for Microsoft to catch up in spite of the purchase.
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In the U.S., stocks have held up relatively well in spite of gloomy economy reports in part because of expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve will soon step in with a third round of quantitative easing, known in the market as QE3.
Here the GS4 seems to struggle again, in spite of the fact that reports leading up to its launch caused much excitement with details of eye-scrolling technology and air gestures.
One reason is that companies, in spite of urgings from various bodies set up to examine best corporate practice, rarely give them the raw material or opportunity to do so.
These moms and others I met maintain their sense of humor in spite of the difficulty of watching kids grow up without their dads, having to explain why birthdays have been missed, why there's a war on.
And yet, in spite of all of that, I somehow ended up a newspaper editor.
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And for a first-generation product in a new space, we have to say, in the whole time we've been playing around with G-Fox, we've yet to encounter a single crash or slowdown in spite of extensive squeezing, head patting and tossing up in the air, adorably.
Institutional and retail investors never stepped up sufficiently to counter this opposition, in spite of support from stalwarts such as Paul Volcker and some retired audit partners.
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Shares of Chinese companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq have held up well over the past year, in spite of the fact that the Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks the bigger of China's stock exchanges, has been one of the world's worst-performing markets.
That's in spite of a new vapor chamber cooling system that allegedly supports up to 450W of thermal output.
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I'm the man who gets up and goes to work every day, in spite of the tragedy, because he still has a family to feed.
Overrewarding employees ranges from protecting employees from natural consequences, excusing them from standard practices, making exceptions to prop up their performance, to outright promoting them in spite of outlandish past behavior or history with the company.
Yet in spite of persistently sluggish growth in the euro area, inflation has bumped up against, or even exceeded, the 2% ceiling for a good part of the period since 1999, when the euro came into being.
In spite of the continuing disconcerting data on consumer confidence, not everyone has given up on a recovery in spending by individuals and businesses.
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In spite of arriving on shelves in 2008, Four Loko has only recently cropped up on the greater social consciousness with colleges issuing cease and desist letters to their students regarding consumption of the cavity-inducing fizzy drink.
Mr Barroso will make the argument that the tax is emphatically justified, in spite of the hit to GDP, because of the enormous taxpayer contribution to shoring up the banking system, which has to date amounted to more than a trillion euros in guarantees.
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He noted that recruiting continued in spite of the New York Stock Exchange shut-down, thanks to a powered-up Starbucks nearby.
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And while Obama had correctly pointed out that production of oil and gas in the U.S. is up, it is not due to his policies, but rather, in spite of them.
The Japanese automaker rolled out aggressive promotions in order to lure customers back in spite of the recalls, and it worked with Toyota nabbing 17.5% market share, up from 15.5% a year ago.
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But for now, the market seems to see no imminent problem for the economy, in spite of the negative reports this week on consumer sentiment, negative GDP growth, and the tick up in the unemployment rate.
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Though the document was drawn up by a committee including representatives from the country's main communities, and in spite of last minute amendments aimed at winning wider support among Sunnis, most of those Sunnis who did vote are thought to have rejected it.
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Santorum supporters were gleeful on Wednesday, saying that in spite of polling in single digits in the state last month, their candidate is poised to pick up significant votes as a result of his unexpectedly strong finish in Iowa, just eight votes behind Mr. Romney.
In spite of round-the-clock work, progress on boring a huge tunnel into the earth was not up to mark.
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