Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who has been highly critical of Microsoft's business practices and who has chaired hearings on high-tech competition.
More importantly, high-tech competition often cuts across established markets in unpredictable ways.
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Thanks to high tech, business competition within the U.S. continues to heat up.
The Bottom Line: In a free enterprise system, the customer is the ultimate boss of each and every capitalist enterprise, especially in the high tech industry where competition from imitators and innovators is intense.
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As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
Lowe said there are so many tech accelerator programs that competition for top-notch startups has become fierce.
Although New England has several mature clean tech companies, the competition focuses exclusively on those that have not received institutional or venture funding.
They also say they aren't concerned about possible future competition from big tech companies.
As tablets eat into the PC market, and the tech market in general, competition will ramp up.
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In the tech-hardware business, competition over price is really a function of scale: firms with higher volume can make things more cheaply.
Craig Barrett, CEO of high-tech giant Intel, which sponsored the 2000 competition, marveled at the talent.
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Competition from China drives low-tech firms out of the market, but forces others to upgrade.
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Three things suggest that even its low-tech companies have a good chance of surviving competition from cheaper countries.
If your business is able to save money by moving your tech infrastructure to cloud, so can your competition.
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Throughout the investigation, the question asked by both consumers groups and those who care about preserving competition and limited regulation of the tech industry was what remedy could possibly benefit innovation and consumers more than the status quo.
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As the Apps4africa 2012 competition team travels to find the next tech CEO in Africa, all these questions were left unanswered at the African CEO Forum.
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They were informing me that Taste Savant had been chosen as one of three finalists in the tech category of their Start Small, Go Big entrepreneurship competition!
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The technology press are almost hard wired to expect releases from Apple in March and September, and that regular cadence of tech has influenced not just Apple, but also the competition.
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Faced with harsh competition and constantly evolving product lines, high-tech companies like to stick close to their key suppliers.
Tech pundits like to frame any sort of mobile or digital competition as a war between devices and brands.
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Reducing labour costs and boosting productivity is all the more important since Portugal is exposed to relatively low-tech areas of activity such as textiles that are vulnerable to competition from developing countries.
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Images are bright and colorful despite dim and gloomy lighting, and while we can't say for sure whether that's thanks to the larger sensor or the integrated TrueColor tech, we can say the difference is noticeable compared to the competition.
For the United States to build a thriving domestic clean tech industry it will have to stay one step ahead of the competition, quickly developing and commercializing the next generation of clean energy technologies to make them cheaper and more reliable.
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The Mac maker has retained that title, albeit with increased competition from Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and other tech giants.
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Finally, unlike old companies, young tech companies were designed from the very beginning to play with international tax competition and bring down their taxes to the lowest level, thus making painful and risky business restructuring unnecessary.
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While the country's economic engine has kept humming despite the ongoing euro-zone crisis, startups here face difficult conditions for securing funding, as well as plenty of competition for resources in a market where brand-new Berlin-based tech companies are considered on trend.
Stepping out into the High Street the Samsung Galaxy S3, backed up by the HTC One range, found no competition in the stores, had the airwaves clear for advertising, and a tech press hungry for stories.
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Despite its high-tech sheen, medicine looks a lot like some of the dinosaur industries that were upended by competition from unexpected sources: autos in the 1970s, for example, or mainframe computers in the 1980s.
At a time of rising competition from India and China--not only in manufacturing but also in high tech--and of concern over jobs creation at home, we're about to seriously handicap our own cutting-edge technology companies and domestic startups by crippling an instrument that's key to their survival and success.
The competition comes as the UK is getting itself in shape to better compete as a world tech capital.
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