Often these businesses have special relationships with key data providers, that when combined with other data and processed as a whole create valuable differentiation and competitive barriers.

一般这种业务与关键数据供应商保持着密切联系。 这些数据将与其他数据整合并进行统一处理，随后生成有价值的差异化的使用门槛，十分具有市场竞争力。

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The Web has eroded the barriers protecting traditional businesses without improving the competitive position of even one incumbent.

网络已经侵蚀了传统企业的保护壁垒，却并没有提高哪怕一家现有企业的竞争地位。

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Moguls aside, the authors' analysis-while at times idiosyncratic-provides a sharp reminder of the importance of focusing on competitive advantage and on the barriers that enable it.

抛开这些巨头来看，作者们的分析尽管有时离经叛道，但确实尖锐地提醒了人们关注竞争优势的重要性，并关注那些造成这种优势的壁垒。

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But in the advanced economies, where internal markets are big enough to be fairly competitive, barriers to flows of trade, capital and knowledge have long been lower, and technology is at its cutting edge, there is less to be gained.

ECONOMIST: The future of the state

The twin causes of the deterioration, Deloitte says, are the advances of digital technology, which radically reduces both competitive advantage and barriers to entry by new players, and movements to economic liberalization by our policy makers.

FORBES: The Digital, Free Market Fall of America

Yet banking is supposed to be a fiercely competitive market, with low barriers to entry.

ECONOMIST: British banking