Amazon's discount program also kept it fiercely competitive with GameStop.
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But the nascent autonomous vehicle space has become fiercely competitive.
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Markets with just a handful of firms can be fiercely competitive.
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Cloud computing is a vast market worth $300bn, and fiercely competitive.
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Get ready to dive into the fiercely competitive waters of enterprise software.
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For now, at least, the broader space is crowded and fiercely competitive.
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We operate in a fiercely competitive market in which people connect and share.
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That would leave the seat open and could trigger a fiercely competitive primary.
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The family is also "fiercely competitive, the Pritzkers don't like failure", says Ms Rautbord.
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In East Asia this is the first rung of a fiercely competitive educational ladder.
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As in nature, a startup's habitat can shape a creative and fiercely competitive ecosystem.
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Regardless of what city it's in, the food truck business has grown fiercely competitive.
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Richard is credited with having improved Orange's results in the fiercely competitive French market.
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In the brutal automotive business, the compact crossover market is the most fiercely competitive.
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Sony's announcement adds another player to the already fiercely competitive Japanese taxi app market.
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Diab along with her fiercely competitive teammates known as the CaiRollers want to change this.
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It offers insight into the chaotic, informal and fiercely competitive nature of much Indian business.
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Selecting fewer representatives would have generated endless polemics among the fiercely competitive districts, many feared.
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The NDTV raid has also shone a spotlight in the fiercely competitive TV news industry.
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The exam-preparation business has become as fiercely competitive in Hong Kong as school itself.
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Running is sometimes considered an isolated and fiercely competitive sport, but this isn't necessarily true.
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Despite these flaws, the regulated property and casualty market has remained fiercely competitive and stable.
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"He was a fiercely competitive player, very explosive," former classmate Nikola Kovacevic told The Mirror.
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Good luck to them, because China is now fiercely competitive along a broad range of industries.
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"In an environment that is so fiercely competitive, it's really hard to find unity," said Bardet.
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Yes, Ultimate Frisbee has recently burgeoned into a fiercely competitive, physically demanding and increasingly popular sport.
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The apparel market is fiercely competitive and Amazon recently launched a rival service called Prime Wardrobe.
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We're also reporting on how new advisers are trying to succeed in a fiercely competitive space.
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Sherman was a fiercely competitive businessman, once musing that a rival might want to kill him.
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Maybe you got promoted to the C-suite by always being fiercely competitive with your colleagues.
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From a young age, I was fiercely competitive and I loved solving puzzles and reading people.
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Samsung cited a "stagnant and fiercely competitive smartphone market" in lowering its own quarterly expectations last week.
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The London fintech industry is pretty close-knit, full of strong personalities and, at times, fiercely competitive.
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In a statement provided to the news outlet Protocol, the company cited a "fiercely competitive" retail market.
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Yes, this was great when it came to school, but it also means that I'm fiercely competitive.
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But tell this to the wildly promiscuous female Savanna baboon or the fiercely competitive female bush cricket.
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Despite the appearance of privilege, friends said he worked long hours and weekends, and was fiercely competitive.
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Some in a fiercely competitive commodities sector are reluctant to put their data on a common platform.
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The race towards developing driverless cars has become fiercely competitive, with multiple players aiming to be involved.
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The episode has put a spotlight on a murky zone within Britain's fiercely competitive news media environment.
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The result is one of the most fiercely competitive, densely populated, commerce-driven cities in the world.
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Burro racing sounds like a stunt, but it's actually a grueling and fiercely competitive Rocky Mountain tradition.
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These brands face a fiercely competitive dining market but have already sparked intense loyalty among their customers.
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The backing of those two companies has amply buoyed the young business in a fiercely competitive space.
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In recent years, the pair have gained an ever-growing share of the fiercely competitive British grocery market.
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The U.S. has been an elusive market for them — it's fiercely competitive and Americans have established brand loyalty.
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For the annual event's promoters, Live Nation's backing will provide much-needed support in a fiercely competitive environment.
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But food delivery is already a fiercely competitive and fraught space and one that has seen considerable consolidation.
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He was grinning when he said it, but Lee has always been fiercely competitive despite his stoner sensibility.
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In 2018, a Bloomberg group spent millions in her race to help McBath win her fiercely competitive seat.
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Life at the pinnacle of the fiercely competitive fine-dining world can be fraught with anxiety and conflict.
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Lucas and Kennedy are obviously good friends and longtime collaborators, but they're also fiercely competitive and highly motivated people.
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Nikki Baird, managing partner at Retail Systems Research, said Klarna has been making inroads in a fiercely competitive sector.
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India's elections are fiercely competitive -- 21998,22003 candidates were fielded from 21947 parties in the last general election in 2014.
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The market for fresh fruit and vegetables is fiercely competitive, with Sprouts Farmers Market, Whole Foods Market Inc WFM.
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Merchants, meanwhile, unlike the banks, survive in a fiercely competitive world where they must hold down prices to survive.
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The German airline recently bought parts of Air Berlin's business after it, too, failed, in Europe's fiercely competitive market.
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Samsung also acknowledged that its own smartphone business is struggling in a "stagnant and fiercely competitive market," CNBC wrote.
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Technology is developing rapidly and demand for tech workers continues to outpace supply, creating a fiercely competitive hiring landscape.
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We are fiercely competitive with one another and look for any chance to elevate ourselves above another gay brother.
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Instead, more companies are turning to artificial intelligence to boost productivity and stay relevant in a fiercely competitive market.
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The retail market we operate in is fiercely competitive, and Amazon represents less than 4% of US retail sales.
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Like Mourinho, those players imprinted on Chelsea their own personalities: fiercely competitive; tenacious and tough; ruthless, and relentless, winners.
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Cruising is one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel market — and one of the most fiercely competitive.
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Japan is a fiercely competitive market, Garduno added, with Coca-Cola launching 100 products a year in the country.
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TriMoxi's history shows not only the big business of cataract surgeries, but the fiercely competitive side of the compounding industry.
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But, of course, this being the fiercely competitive world of Splatoon 2, things are not as easy as they seem.
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Dalrymple's case is a great example of how the fiercely competitive dynamics of the current market have transformed executive hiring.
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So drivers gain the potential for more business while Uber increases its pool of cars in a fiercely competitive market.
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The hiring ambitions of two of the top European banks may signal another fiercely competitive year for senior investment bankers.
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The market is fiercely competitive but offers potential as more than 20 percent of South Africans have no bank account.
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Fiercely competitive and dramatic, the South American World Cup qualifiers have been one of international football's success stories of recent times.
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"We lacked the scale required to compete effectively in the large, rapidly growing and fiercely competitive cloud computing market," Hammond said.
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Altice's share price has halved since it reported disappointing quarterly results in France earlier this month amid a fiercely competitive market.
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A medical sales rep, Kimber is fiercely competitive in her job and hopes those skills translate to life on the island.
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Why it matters: Microsoft is stepping up an already-fiercely competitive race toward smarter machines against Alphabet and Elon Musk's OpenAI.
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The company, which is owned by South Africa's Brait , has been struggling with declining sales in a fiercely competitive British market.
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Having turned professional aged 17 Finau initially struggled and it took him six attempts to get through the fiercely competitive Web.
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Smartphone makers — and Android OEMs especially — are under acute pressure to stand out in a fiercely competitive and growth-stalled market.
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The smartphone market has become a fiercely competitive one, with industry titans Apple and Samsung being the two dominant global forces.
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Except that Seaver was the immortal, the forever young, so composed and so fiercely competitive and so analytical about his efforts.
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The Japanese automakers just cannot match the insane spending and constant updates that keep Detroit trucks fiercely competitive with each other.
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Because retailers are so fiercely competitive, these numbers indicate merchants saved consumers even more than what merchants saved from debit reform.
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How did he come to dominate a fiercely competitive industry so thoroughly that the US government sued Microsoft under antitrust statutes?
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His win was especially significant given the fiercely competitive group, albeit one that is akin to an island of misfit toys.
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The signal caller's fiercely competitive nature often belies the respect he has for his teammates, which Vollmer recounted in another anecdote.
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"We operate in a fiercely competitive market for services which help people connect, discover, communicate and share," a Facebook spokesperson told me.
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Google and Facebook offer their services for free to consumers, and are fiercely competitive when it comes to their paying customers—advertisers.
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His employer — a unit of the Maersk Group, the Danish shipping conglomerate — is locked in a fiercely competitive battle around the world.
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Needless to say, any time there is this much money at stake, basic economic forces dictate that pricing will be fiercely competitive.
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We can't wait to deliver this epic and fiercely competitive showdown — with these unprecedented contestants — to ABC viewers and loyal fans everywhere.
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Generations after it was introduced by other ethnic groups, handball is still fiercely competitive at courts on Surf Avenue in Coney Island.
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Adobe is sharpening its focus on the fast-growing cloud business, a fiercely competitive market dominated by Microsoft Corp, Oracle Corp and Salesforce.
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Travel continues to be a fiercely competitive space, but it's one that's been relatively untouched by the sharing economy's grubby paws so far.
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Unlike the $11 billion ZTO, which focuses on the fiercely competitive delivery sector, Best wants to offer a far wider range of services.
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The Galaxy S9 is a solid smartphone but serving up more of the same equals diminishing returns in the fiercely competitive Android space.
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BlackBerry and Microsoft were bitter rivals until both decided to focus their businesses elsewhere after losing out in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.
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The on-demand streaming music service world is fiercely competitive, with Spotify and Apple commanding the lion's share of attention and paying subscribers.
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And the fiercely competitive industry still has a diversity problem: Women make up only 28 percent of the publishing and record label workforce.
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LONDON — The fiercely competitive sports media market in the United Kingdom is causing major problems for another insurgent company trying to penetrate it.
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Nigeria's noodle market is fiercely competitive and De United with a market share of around 70 percent is seeking to consolidate the sector.
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It is a fiercely competitive, high-volume market, dominated by the big players like Cipla, who employ armies of salesmen to sell their drugs.
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Elections in Iran are instead vibrant affairs, at least by Middle Eastern standards -- marked by fiercely competitive factions, heated arguments and a tough press.
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SF Express is one of the largest companies in the fiercely competitive Chinese package delivery sector and has its own fleet of cargo aircraft.
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A top official at Telefonica said on Wednesday he would support consolidation in Spain's fiercely competitive telecommunications market, where takeover speculation has been rife.
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The exchange business is fiercely competitive and is undergoing consolidation, including the recent deal signed between Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange Group.
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Fanatics is changing that and, in the process, carving out a lucrative niche in a fiercely competitive online-retail industry largely dominated by Amazon.
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As dominant as the Cellar is in the New York club scene right now, it's a fiercely competitive business where reputations rise and fall.
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The suit comes as the electric car maker has been trying to revive its solar business, which has struggled in a fiercely competitive market.
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It is grasping for a hold in the fiercely competitive sports apparel market even as it undergoes the biggest management shift in its history.
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Driving the news: ABC News has won a fiercely competitive effort to score the first broadcast interview with Sims, whose book deal was seven figures.
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The fiercely competitive test is seen as a key to social mobility and the best chance for school leavers to land a white-collar job.
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Expectations of consolidation in Asia's fiercely competitive ride-hailing industry were stoked after Japan's SoftBank Group Corp made a multi-billion dollar investment in Uber.
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Samsung said marketing expenses and flat sales volumes led to a decline in profitability in a "stagnant and fiercely competitive market" in the smartphone business.
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We can't argue that it's unbelievably reliable and extremely well built, but in a fiercely competitive segment that isn't enough to offset the Tundra's downsides.
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However, the company's business model was "unsustainable" in the "fiercely competitive" direct-to-consumer market, the Brandless board said in a joint statement to CNBC.
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Today, Google, Microsoft, IBM and many others have joined the fray in a fiercely competitive market, but AWS still dominates it, at least for now.
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Deutsche's domestic market is also fiercely competitive: an army of public-sector and co-operative banks tussle for the custom of German savers and companies.
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They called it the AFL-NFL World Championship Game -- the first time the top teams from two fiercely competitive football leagues had ever faced off.
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The investment in New Dada will help Wal-Mart target Chinese shoppers with faster delivery times in a popular but fiercely competitive online grocery market.
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The fitness tracker world is fiercely competitive, and leaders such as Fitbit have had trouble recently as interest in their products has started to wane.
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Cheap, small-engine microcars are a fiercely competitive segment of the auto market in Japan, where they account for 40 percent of new cars sold.
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While the two Democratic candidates have been fiercely competitive and incredibly close in the primary and caucus elections, the numbers remain in Hillary Clinton's favor.
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Ms. Jones, who took a deeply personal interest in her authors in a way that is nearly extinct in today's publishing world, was fiercely competitive.
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He convinced fiercely competitive Wall Street firms to put up their own cash to bail out a competitor that had recklessly sewn its own fate.
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Barcelona, winners in 2003 and 763, now face an uphill battle to avoid an early exit in a fiercely competitive group after another lackluster performance.
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The listings business is fiercely competitive and IEX has won only a single listing, Interactive Brokers Group Inc , since it became an exchange in 2016.
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That investment in the owner of social media app Snapchat promises a big boost to Lightspeed's status in the fiercely competitive Silicon Valley venture capital community.
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Sometimes that doesn't pay off, but ultimately, I think that you need to be brave in order to create a business in a fiercely competitive industry.
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It is struggling for profitability: German domestic banking is fiercely competitive; and its once-swaggering investment bank is being left in the dust by American firms.
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The companies' management has concluded — after prodding from major shareholders — that such a reorganization is the best way to thrive in a fiercely competitive global marketplace.
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Last year, for example, Google switched on a free and unlimited photo storage offering for consumers, applying more pricing pressure to an already fiercely competitive space.
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Lyft, Uber's chief nemesis in the U.S., is thinking of entering the fiercely competitive Japanese ride-hailing space, according to comments from one of its founders.
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That same claim is also frequently mirrored by claims from telecom lobbying organizations like US Telecom, who routinely insists the U.S. broadband market is fiercely competitive.
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The stakes are high in the fiercely competitive eyewear market, which is expected to grow to nearly $130 billion worldwide as demand increases for prescription eyeglasses.
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It's true that neither Curry nor Brown became the players they were projected to be, but both eventually found a niche in a fiercely competitive league.
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Back in the 22019s, Austin won two fiercely-competitive federal competitions to create public-private research consortiums to compete in software and semiconductors against the Japanese.
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The business of providing ultra-high-speed internet services via satellite might sound like science fiction, but the reality is that it's established and fiercely competitive.
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The U.S. Photoshop maker is sharpening its focus on the fast-growing cloud business, a fiercely competitive market dominated by Microsoft Corp, Oracle Corp and Salesforce.
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But the fiercely competitive, profit-hungry finance world was an uncomfortable fit, and he said he was quickly disillusioned by what he called "greedy" banking culture.
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Workday has been trying to become a one-step solution for all back-office services for small and medium sized businesses in a fiercely competitive market.
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Expectations of consolidation in Asia's fiercely competitive ride-hailing industry were stoked earlier this year when SoftBank's Vision Fund made a multi-billion dollar investment in Uber.
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Cinven strengthened the group with a series of acquisitions of its peers, as the fiercely competitive Internet service provider industry consolidated, before putting it up for sale.
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The four Stanley Cups he helped the Red Wings win came in 1950, '52, '54 and '55, when the N.H.L. was a fiercely competitive six-team league.
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Op-Ed Contributor Charleston, W.V. — Jim Justice is known as a fiercely competitive coach in this town, dedicated to the Greenbrier East High School girls' basketball team.
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And finally, in this fiercely-competitive and fast-changing space, many smart device makers will implode — and consumers need a fallback plan in place if they do.
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Even in the fiercely competitive world that Mr. Trump envisions, keeping America safe is not a game, a zero-sum calculus or something with a definable end.
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The promise of the online broker model is that once scale is achieved, lower operational costs will start to offset those higher and fiercely competitive acquisition costs.
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Expectations of consolidation in Asia's fiercely competitive ride-hailing industry were stoked earlier this year when Japan's SoftBank Group made a multi-billion dollar investment in Uber.
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Disputes over intellectual property are a regular feature of the fiercely competitive IT sector around the world, but these are usually adjudicated by courts in civil proceedings.
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The big picture: Although fiercely competitive in the showroom, automakers have long presented a united front on shared interests like trade policy, government regulations and labor relations.
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The company's rapid growth makes it one of the fastest growing start-ups not only in the country's fiercely competitive education technology sector — but in all of China.
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Either way, the courses it provides will need to be at least as good as the increasing number on offer in what is becoming a fiercely competitive marketplace.
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The company's China marketplace, which has stocked products from Chinese as well as overseas merchants, struggled to gain a foothold in the country's fiercely competitive e-commerce market.
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In the fiercely competitive smartphone market, Apple could not have scripted better timing for Samsung's phone recall, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster told CNBC's "Power Lunch " on Monday.
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Expectations of consolidation in Asia's fiercely competitive ride-hailing industry were stoked earlier this year when Japan's SoftBank Group Corp made a multi-billion dollar investment in Uber.
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Third-party candidates are fiercely competitive in two upstate New York U.S. House seats, a state with a long, viable history of multiple political party lines and races.
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Sergio De Zen, a livestock expert at the University of Sao Paulo, said other countries may be eager to block Brazilian exports in the fiercely competitive protein market.
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BARCELONA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A top official at Telefonica said on Wednesday he would support consolidation in Spain's fiercely competitive telecommunications market, where takeover speculation has been rife.
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Against the backdrop of a fiercely competitive trading environment, BlackRock its active management business by cutting jobs, reducing fees and increasing its use of computers to pick stocks.
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China's Xi Jinping can be added to this list, emerging as he did from a fiercely competitive political process within the 80 million-member Communist Party of China.
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The rise of self-directed fractional-share trading is a product of the fiercely competitive, margin-pressured environment that startup and legacy brokerages alike are operating in today.
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In year one, they helped rev up the economy by delivering policies that help make America fiercely competitive in the global economy, such as regulatory and tax reform.
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The president has a fiercely competitive spirit, and he has to know that stocks flourished under his predecessor, Barack Obama, while the economy struggled to grow 2 percent.
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Real has been struggling for years in a fiercely competitive German market dominated by discounters Aldi and Lidl and as the rise of ecommerce has undermined hypermarkets globally.
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At just $4.99 per month, Apple TV+ will be the least expensive service yet in the fiercely competitive streaming market, undercutting Netflix and even the hotly anticipated Disney+.
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The rise of self-directed fractional-share trading is a product of the fiercely competitive, margin-pressured environment that startup and legacy brokerages alike are operating in today.
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Aside from massaging egos and signaling success and attractiveness to future investors, they create a buzz that helps with marketing and, especially, hiring in a fiercely competitive talent market.
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Because of the filters of caste, class and a fiercely competitive education system, only those with above average financial and human capital get the chance to move to America.
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"We're both fiercely competitive and we work day in and day out with each other in the same environment and that definitely has its challenges," Tim Price told Reuters.
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All these areas potentially could provide less volatile revenue streams than the bank's equity and rates trading arms, but they are already fiercely competitive and undergoing sweeping technological changes.
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The exchange business is fiercely competitive, which has led to a large amount of consolidation, including the recent deal signed between Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange Group.
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Being the baddest wasn't just something you claimed, but rather a prize to earn and then defend constantly, and almost cyclically, amid a fiercely competitive field on two coasts.
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In Japan, a fiercely competitive market where Coca-Cola says it introduces 100 new products each year, the company plans to test a flavored, bubbly drink spiked with alcohol.
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Mr. Casalino is among a growing number of students who are turning to college prep coaches to navigate them through the fiercely competitive and time-consuming college application process.
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The Ryder Cup back then was not the fiercely-competitive affair it is today, because the U.S. routinely dominated, but the then-Britain and Ireland team had their moments.
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The practice of dangling tax breaks to attract film production is nothing new, but the fiercely competitive bidding for VFX work makes the industry especially receptive to this pull.
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When it comes down to it, you know that voting for stricter gun laws will prompt a fiercely competitive primary election that can quickly snuff out your political ambitions.
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Still, in an industry where experienced and decisive leaders are hard to come by, Zucker could be a powerful force to lead WarnerMedia in a fiercely competitive Hollywood landscape.
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Stacey Abrams, who ran for governor of Georgia last year, galvanized black urban and rural voters throughout the state, which turned her underdog bid into a fiercely competitive one.
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It's a surprise twist for the fiercely competitive presidential-elect, whose transition team and early appointments have so far been dominated by his inner circle and longtime loyalists. ADVERTISEMENTgoogletag.cmd.
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But the Android market is fiercely competitive with Chinese players such as Oppo and Vivo aggressively expanding and offering low-cost devices and a Huawei growing at a rapid pace.
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Her elevation also marks a new phase for a financial conglomerate known for its strong record of beating profit expectations and the large pay packages of its fiercely competitive staff.
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Unlike the banks, retailers have to be fiercely competitive because customers, for instance, can drive just a little bit further to save a few cents on a gallon of gas.
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The secret dossier titled "Preliminary Report on Bill Ackman" described an adversary who was "fiercely competitive" and "extremely smart," fueled by ambition and a quest to win at all costs.
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The move is leading the South Africa-China joint venture down a fiercely competitive path as Facebook's WhatsApp is already part of the social media fabric in most African countries.
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While these elements are generally a byproduct of a fiercely competitive recruiting market for top talent, they add to the misperception that Silicon Valley is a bastion of lavish perks.
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Breaking into the fiercely competitive travel industry may seem tough but one young CEO jumped in feet first and ended up swimming rather than sinking, in some very nice pools.
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The I.S.E., which consists of three stock options markets, will help bolster Nasdaq's presence in a fiercely competitive industry that has been growing faster than the traditional equity exchange business.
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It uses clear visual examples to explore how their work was at times positively collaborative in the fiercely competitive art scene in Rome, prior to the artists' eventual falling out.
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Groupon — Shares of Groupon tanked 27% after the e-commerce company said it will stop selling merchandise by year end, citing a "fiercely competitive" and in some cases "irrational" environment.
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Zaffino is fiercely competitive and disciplined, characteristics that date back to when he played as a Boston College soccer goalie and trained with the U.S. Men's national team, they said.
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Conversely, in a UK market that remains fiercely competitive on price, Tesco's turnaround has been harder, partly a legacy of its sizeable exposure to larger formats, but is gaining momentum.
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Zaffino is fiercely competitive and disciplined, characteristics that date back to when he played as a Boston College soccer goalie and trained with the U.S. Men's national team, they said.
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Restaurant Brands International Inc reported a quarterly profit that missed analysts' estimates as its Burger King unit struggled in a fiercely competitive U.S. market, offsetting gains in its Tim Hortons cafes.
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Online radio service Pandora Media said it would reduce its U.S.-based workforce by about 7 percent as it seeks to become profitable in the fiercely competitive market for music streaming.
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GovBall has remained a standout in the fiercely competitive Northeast concert and festival market, landing record ticket sales in 2015, and the acquisition would mark a major get for Live Nation.
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That loss - in the Grand Prix Final in Japan last December - was to Papadakis and Cizeron, and prompted the fiercely-competitive Canadians to return home and tweak their programme in response.
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As it stood, sales margins were frequently in the 20 percent range, a byproduct of a fiercely competitive market where furniture manufacturers like PHDesign underbid their prices to garner market share.
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The Times' report, however, suggested a fiercely competitive edge is present within Amazon; it quoted one former employee saying they had seen many others "cry at their desk" from the pressure.
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In a world where the enterprise market hovers around $500 billion in annual sales, is it any wonder that hundreds of enterprise startups launch into that fiercely competitive arena every year?
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China Unicom group, formally known as China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd, is one of the world's largest mobile carriers by user numbers but has faced a fiercely competitive market.
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LONDON (Reuters) - European Union sugar companies have emerged from the cocoon of production quotas and are now fighting to survive in a fiercely competitive world market with prices and profits plunging.
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Buying the I.S.E., which comprises three stock options markets, will help Nasdaq bolster its presence in a fiercely competitive industry that has been growing faster than the traditional equity exchange business.
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Along with an expected pickup in demand for electric vehicles, Innogy hopes services that go along with it will increase its sales and profit in the fiercely competitive energy retail market.
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Wendy's, like other fast-food chains, has been offering discounts on limited-time items and beverages as well as freshly prepared meals to attract more diners in a fiercely competitive industry.
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Had she been playing 80 years ago, Maria Sharapova, at 6-foot-2 and fiercely competitive, might have suffered Stephens's fate and had her femininity not just questioned but physically confirmed.
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It shows the darkness and levity, the devotion to individual and group perfection, that has accompanied the evolution of cheerleading from glee clubs with pom-poms to a fiercely competitive sport.
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Despite the lack of a serious contest, Republican turnout in the state is down only 3 percent from 2016, when the party was in the thick of a fiercely competitive primary.
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When the Praetor models hit the market in 2019, they will join a fiercely competitive space that includes Bombardier's Challenger 350 and Gulfstream's G280, along with Textron's upcoming Cessna Citation Longitude.
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Jaeger, founded in 1884, is famous for its woolen coats and suits, but the company has struggled in the past few years to stand out in a fiercely competitive fashion retailing market.
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The group's main European online business had suffered from a lack of product investment, particularly in the fiercely competitive British market, following betting exchange Betfair's tie-up with Paddy Power in 2016.
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Beginning with the Venetian-trained del Piombo's arrival in Rome, the focus is exploration of the technical differences between the two artists within the context of fiercely competitive art patronage in Rome.
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This partnership has been closely watched as Monoprix was the first French retailer to agree in March 2018 to sell products via Amazon, causing a stir in the fiercely competitive domestic market.
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The German carrier has been investing billions in renewing its fleet and improving its cabins as it seeks to win customers in a fiercely competitive market and achieve the highest Skytrax rating.
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McDonald's rose 2.3 percent after it beat estimates for quarterly same-store sales as strong demand in international markets made up for slowing growth in the fiercely-competitive U.S. fast-food industry.
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" When it comes to her strategy for competing on CBB, Manigault Newman, who described herself as "fiercely competitive," said: "I came in with a strategy of building a very strong social game.
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That's why we sent one of our video producers out to train with the kickass ladies of the Brooklyn Women's Rugby Team, where she learned the ropes of this fiercely competitive game.
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BMW executives said the industry faces a fiercely competitive environment, dogged by questions about how tariffs and trade tension between the U.S., China and Europe could affect supply chains, manufacturing and sales.
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Perhaps knowing this, the Chinese team gallantly attributed their success to "50 percent knowledge and 50 percent luck," although they did admit that getting a slot on their team was fiercely competitive.
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NYSE and Nasdaq are fiercely competitive for new listings, and while the NYSE has cut into Nasdaq's usual dominance in tech IPOs in the last few years, that rivalry has not diminished.
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Fortunately, it remains true that the Championship is a fiercely competitive league, a mix of fallen giants trapped in Channel 5 highlights purgatory and small-town clubs who punch above their weight.
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SOCCER GOALIE Zaffino is fiercely competitive and disciplined, characteristics that date back to when he played as a Boston College soccer goalie and trained with the U.S. Mens national team, they said.
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The investigation comes at a time of polarising debate in India's fiercely competitive TV news industry, where channels sometimes test the boundaries of responsible journalism and prime-time talk shows often turn rowdy.
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You don't have to stare into your opponents' cold, fiercely competitive eyes while you play, but you'll need to stay nearby, since the headsets use infrared signals instead of Bluetooth or wi-fi.
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I was nicknamed 'Aquascutum Girl' because I was one of the best-dressed out of a group of fiercely competitive older males, but I was never an official member—more of a groupie.
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The giant recall came as competitors heaped extra pressure on the South Korean giant, with the launch of Apple's iPhone 7 and Google's Pixel into the already fiercely competitive high-end smartphone market.
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While the other three traditional groups have upped their game in recent years and started to fight back, Asda is still struggling to adapt and win back customers in the fiercely competitive sector.
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International travel is growing more slowly, at 9 percent a year, but newer airlines are eager to start flying overseas where routes can be more lucrative than in the fiercely competitive domestic sector.
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" Sébastien Bazin, Chairman and CEO, AccorHotels: "We're very excited about teaming up with Groupe Noctis, which has come to rank among the leaders in a fiercely competitive environment in only a few years.
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Halfords had previously warned profit will not grow until its 2021 financial year, as it ramps up investing in its stores, services and digital operations to improve in a fiercely competitive retail space.
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A popular chief executive, Richard is credited with improving revenues and market share in the fiercely competitive French telecoms market and restoring relations with unions after a spate of suicides shook the company.
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China Unicom, formally known as China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd, is one of the world's largest mobile carriers by user numbers, but its recent earnings have struggled in a fiercely competitive market.
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As the first Genesis model which was not previously sold as a Hyundai, the G70 will be a key test of the two-year-old marque's ability to survive in a fiercely competitive field.
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With sanctions keeping Western energy investments at bay, and with many Chinese investors likely tapped out, the domestic energy companies are Russia's best hope for maintaining production levels in the fiercely competitive global market.
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PEOPLE can exclusively announce that TLC is launching Little Miss Atlanta, a four-episode Toddlers and Tiaras spin-off that chronicles the fiercely competitive world of the Little Miss Black US Pageant in Atlanta.
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"The young guys are not only great players, fiercely competitive, but they have a quality that's taken me decades to acquire, and that is they are genuinely happy for each other's success," Mickelson said.
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The case comes at a time when the self-driving car business is fiercely competitive — and any setback could impact companies' abilities to test their cars on the road and beat rivals to market.
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Starling, founded by banking veteran Anne Boden in 2014, is among the growing crop of neo-banks in the UK and has carved out a space for itself in London's fiercely competitive fintech scene.
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Should Tanium go ahead with its IPO plans, it will be one of the few cyber security companies to attract enough investor confidence to go public, in what has become a fiercely competitive sector.
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The company admitted that its days of astronomical growth were behind them and said it would cut jobs and close stores, underscoring its struggles in a fast-changing and fiercely competitive U.S. sportswear market.
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Three of the top five smartphone makers in the world are Chinese and many more from the world's second-largest economy are hoping to see strong growth beyond China, where the market is fiercely competitive.
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Trump capitalized on that environment, watering the seeds of a fiercely competitive view of international relations that would later resonate with millions of working-class Americans who saw their industries and jobs dwindle amid globalization.
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But it may be that Apple, by trying to please everyone, will end up pleasing too few Americans to break into the fiercely competitive credit-card market, in which there are already 1bn active cards.
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Grupo Carrefour Brasil will start an online grocery shopping and rewards platform in Sao Paulo this week, executives said on Monday, deploying fresh capital to boost its e-commerce presence in a fiercely competitive market.
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However their full integration was completed only this year and the combined group acknowledged that left the Paddy Power brand in particular suffering from a lack of product investment in the fiercely competitive British market.
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Ford and VW will remain "independent and fiercely competitive in the marketplace," the Detroit automaker's CEO Jim Hackett said in a statement released ahead of a joint news conference Friday morning in New York City.
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Los Angeles (CNN)Two fiercely competitive helicopter pilots who battled to bring the world the first pictures of the O.J. Simpson car chase now find themselves on the same side of a much different battle.
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It's an open question whether Obama or Trump can wield any influence on the race, but the dueling presidential messages underscore the fiercely competitive nature of the Senate contest that has taken on outsized proportions.
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But in Los Angeles, where small tortillerias are fiercely competitive, and the radio station KCRW hosts an annual tournament in which more than 60 vendors compete, buyers tend to be loyal to long-established businesses.
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Should Tanium go ahead with its IPO plans, it will be one of the few cyber security companies to attract enough stock market investor confidence to go public, in what has become a fiercely competitive sector.
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Verizon is going through a period of change in the fiercely competitive telecommunications industry, with new CEO Hans Vestberg announcing a reorganization in November that created a media group, a consumer unit and a business segment.
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For some, a puzzle that was initially designed to stimulate complex mathematical calculations has become a fiercely competitive test of muscle memory, rote learning and luck (Mr Yusheng's sub-4 benefited from a fortunate initial "scramble").
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Samsung also said a "stagnant and fiercely competitive smartphone market" pressured income and that the firm would continue to innovate its product line such as with foldable handsets and models capable of fifth-generation (5G) networking.
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Analysts say the new chief will need to clean up the company's cloud strategy as well as battle to retain and attract clients in a fiercely competitive space that includes specialists like NetSuite, Salesforce and Workday .
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It introduces needed modernization, strengthens labor provisions and provides at least 16 years of established rules, enabling the private sectors of each country to plan and invest for the future in a fiercely competitive global marketplace.
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The on-demand food delivery space is fiercely competitive and DoorDash has emerged as the US leader when it comes to sales, surpassing Grubhub for the first time in May, according to analytics firm Second Measure.
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The investigation comes at a time of often heated, polarizing debate in India's fiercely competitive TV news industry, where channels sometimes test the boundaries of responsible journalism and prime-time talk shows are often rowdy and contentious.
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Because, with hardware a fiercely competitive business with low margins despite Xiaomi's smart approach to sourcing components, the potential for a data and services business that connects the dots can help Xiaomi stand apart from its rivals.
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The performance of the alliance is being closely watched since Monoprix was the first French retailer to agree in March 2018 to sell its products via Amazon, causing a stir in the fiercely competitive domestic French market.
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Like its peers, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based department store chain faltered in the past few years as it struggled to adjust to a fiercely competitive retail landscape where shoppers buy more goods online at places like Amazon.
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"On a local level, it's noteworthy that some of 2018's fiercely competitive markets—San Jose, Seattle, Los Angeles—have seen their bidding war rates plummet the most year over year," said Daryl Fairweather, Redfin's chief economist.
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The elimination of the non-store employees is part of a restructuring plan that Johnson unveiled in September in an attempt to make the company nimble enough to tackle rivals in a fiercely competitive U.S. coffee market.
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PARIS, March 8 (Reuters) - Altice, the owner of France's second-biggest telecoms operator SFR Group, expects its revenues in the country to remain flattish in 2017, underscoring the challenges it still faces in the fiercely competitive market.
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Iowa Iowa may have handed Trump a nearly 10-point win in 2016, but the Hawkeye State holds a reputation as a perennial battleground, setting the stage for a fiercely competitive Senate race in 85033 when Sen.
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The industry has consolidated in recent years, and Michael A. Carrier, an antitrust professor at Rutgers Law School, said that the once fiercely competitive players may no longer have as strong of an incentive to do battle.
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Fiercely competitive and a prolific fund-raiser — she had more than $10.5 million in the bank as of late 2018 — she has invested heavily in recent years to build up a small donor network online, as well.
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The market for listings is fiercely competitive, from courting initial public offerings, such as the highly anticipated IPO of Snapchat parent Snap Inc, to luring firms from rival exchanges, both of which can be huge public relations windfalls.
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Mhun, 56, is currently senior vice-president of services at Airbus - a fiercely competitive marketplace in which both Airbus and Boeing are targeting increases in revenue as they place after-market activities at the center of future developments.
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For AstraZeneca, the tie-up is an opportunity to expand into new areas within the fiercely competitive immuno-oncology field, particularly in colorectal cancer, where the approach of boosting the immune system has so far had limited success.
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Richard has the support of Orange's leading unions, some of which are represented on its board, after improving its results in the fiercely competitive French market and restoring labor relations which were shaken by a series of suicides.
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However, only creative types need apply as the venue takes its commitment to the arts very earnestly and aspires to function as a gathering place for pacesetters in the fiercely competitive worlds of fashion, art, design and culture.
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"To hear that it's actually buying an existing retailer confirms its intentions in the area and that obviously leads to further competition in what is already a fiercely competitive market," said Laith Khalaf, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.
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There is no telling what will happen at the Rio Games in August, but for most swimmers the most nerve-racking part is right now, when they are trying to make the team in the fiercely competitive trials.
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Still, the speed of AstraZeneca's turnaround remains uncertain as the No. 22018 British drugmaker goes head to head with industry giants like Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Merck in the fast-growing but fiercely competitive cancer drug market.
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But then to stand out in the fiercely competitive smartphone market Android OEMs are having to pull out all the stops — including, apparently, offering consumers the choice to pull off and swap out the rump of their phone.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Never try to sleep your way to the top, but don't be afraid of making a scene: that is British artist Tracey Emin's advice to women setting out in the fiercely competitive art world.
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In recent years, a cottage industry of spelling bee test prep has sprung up, including pricey coaches and online programs and fiercely competitive minor-league bees, casting another spotlight on the role that resources play in the contest.
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At a ceremony on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport following the airplane's flight from Seattle, CEO David Maimon said the fleet renewal was new era for El Al, helping it better compete in a fiercely competitive market.
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It has long sought to shed its Real hypermarkets chain, which has annual sales of more than 7 billion euros ($7.8 billion) but has struggled for years in a fiercely competitive German market, dominated by discounters Aldi and Lidl.
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When I was a student at a prestigious music school, a widespread school legend told of the Juilliard School's fiercely competitive piano department, whose students would place razor blades in between the keys of rehearsal pianos in practice rooms.
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Just Eat said in March it would spend an extra 50 million pounds ($67 million) this year to battle competition from rivals such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo, in a fiercely competitive market which has burgeoned in recent years.
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In findings consistent with earlier analyses by The Economist, the fund concluded that market power has risen notably in America and by a smaller amount in Europe, and largely affected industries other than manufacturing (kept fiercely competitive by trade).
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The analyst firm said that "supply constraints" had impacted potential sales — additionally, there are fiercely competitive devices at cheaper prices, while it isn't clear if Apple's brand cachet resonates as strongly with Chinese consumers when selling non-flagship phones.
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With the acquisition of cloud-based business performance management software maker Adaptive Insights in August, Workday attempts to become a one-step solution for all back-office services for small and medium sized businesses in this fiercely competitive market.
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Real has been a laggard in the fiercely competitive German grocery market dominated by discounter Aldi and Lidl, also suffering as consumers shift away from weekly shops at out-of-town hypermarkets towards more frequent trips to smaller stores.
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Klarna, meaning 'clear', believes its password-free service which enables 'one-click' impulse shopping and immediate payments for merchants, will be key to attracting new customers and retailers in the fiercely competitive U.S. market where it launched in September.
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At a premium of 49 percent over the share price before initial reports emerged that a takeover was on the cards, the offer is widely regarded as attractive, after Stada organised a fiercely competitive auction between two buyout consortia.
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Eat Prune turns the big 20 this year — which is, we often joke, actually 140 when counted in fiercely competitive and fickle restaurant years, where one can go from sizzle-hot to morgue-cold in a New York minute.
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It should be able to expand quickly outside America's fiercely competitive generics market, where consolidation among wholesalers has allowed buyers to demand lower prices and faster regulatory approval of generic drugs has flooded the market with low-cost medicines.
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"Despite a fiercely competitive market, our strategy is proving successful in global advisory where we have grown our market share contributing to a sharp increase in revenues for the first half," said Nigel Higgins and Olivier Pecoux, co-CEOs of Rothschild.
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On the other hand, the FCC is now led by telecom flack Ajit Pai, who issued a report last year claiming there is a "fiercely competitive marketplace" on mobile, despite the largest four companies controlling around 99 percent of the market.
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While popular in parts of Asia, the messaging platform has failed to grow usage beyond its core regions — unsurprisingly given how fiercely competitive the space is — with the likes of China's WeChat and Facebook owned WhatsApp standing in its way.
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"Despite the hard work of everyone on that staff, which has produced much outstanding journalism and great scoops, establishing a steady and sustainable audience for a relatively young site has proved challenging in a fiercely competitive sector," the email read.
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Why it matters: The hard-charging Iacocca was the United States' most famous CEO and corporate pitchman in the 1980s, fiercely competitive and a symbol of the American auto industry's triumphs and challenges, Automotive News writes in a comprehensive obituary.
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The council, the main body representing Australian miners, predicted the proposal was unlikely to proceed to an actual complaint despite China being awash with imported iron ore, since it was being traded "in the open" and in a fiercely competitive market.
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While they might have been fiercely competitive on the track, it was back in the studio where the casually-dressed couple — Zara wore an animal print blouse, leather-look leggings and Adidas trainers — surprised viewers with how affectionate they were.
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Hilton is now the world's second largest hotel chain, being knocked off the top spot when Marriott bought Starwood for $13 billion in September 2016, but in a fiercely competitive market Calpin said her focus is on her own company.
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French banks have been fiercely competitive on mortgage lending recently with many prepared to squeeze their margins on a loan in hope of winning new clients to whom they can then sell other services like insurance and investment with juicier fees.
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With the acquisition of cloud-based business performance management software maker Adaptive Insights last year, Workday has been trying to become a one-step solution for all back-office services for small and medium sized businesses in a fiercely competitive market.
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Were Bob Bakish, who was named on Monday as the permanent replacement of previous Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman, to explore more acquisitions, he could again look across the Atlantic for opportunities beyond the fiercely competitive U.S. media market, the sources said.
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But, as Robyn Byde, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, points out, the European market is fiercely competitive and increasingly dominated by just four big players: Ryanair, easyJet, the Lufthansa group and IAG (a group which includes British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia).
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But, says Robin Byde of Cantor Fitzgerald, a financial services company, in Europe this is the most fiercely competitive market of all, dominated by four big firms: Ryanair, easyJet, IAG (which includes British Airways, Aer Lingus and Iberia) and the Lufthansa group.
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The news was reported earlier by the FT. The move has spiked speculation about a potential sale of HTC's mobile division, with the Taiwanese device maker struggling for years to try to turn around its fortunes in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.
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"The ring-fence that Amazon has built around its Prime customer base has significantly benefited the company in a fiercely competitive Cyber Monday pricing environment with much more competitive prices from Walmart in particular seen across inventory during the day," Ives wrote.
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"Sichuan, Chengdu in particular, has an incredibly high concentration of restaurants and a fiercely competitive restaurant industry, so people are always looking for the next new thing," said Fuchsia Dunlop, the English food writer and consultant who spent many years in Sichuan.
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The musicians saw their pay cut by 14 percent, and, in the fiercely competitive orchestra world, fell behind those peers and dropped to the eighth best-paid group in the nation, where they remain, according to Adaptistration, a website that tracks orchestra compensation.
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Despite the setbacks the fiercely competitive Scot said he expected to win a fourth slam title and reclaim his spot alongside Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic as a member of the sport's Big Four but added he needs to be patient.
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With both parties gearing up for what are set to be fiercely competitive midterm elections in November 2018, this will likely give further motivation to Democrats to mobilize votes across states where competition will be tight, and particularly in coastal states like Florida.
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The group has recently been able to sustain its food market share at around 4% in light of its niche position in a fiercely competitive food retail marketplace, which has partially offset market share loss in general merchandise, which fell across all main product lines.
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As The New Republic noted recently, this attitude is not shared by most U.S. Presidents, including Barack Obama, a habitual consumer of current books, and George W. Bush, who reportedly engaged in a fiercely competitive book-reading contest with his political adviser Karl Rove.
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The Johannesburg-based company reported a slight fall in the number of users in the third quarter due to a weaker showing in a fiercely competitive home market, where it vies for market share with Vodacom and Cell C. Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Susan Fenton
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Internet company Meituan-Dianping, akin to a mix of Yelp, GroupOn and food delivery, said on Tuesday it has raised more than $3.3 billion in a funding round, as the firm takes on a slew of rivals in a fiercely competitive domestic market.
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In this latest production (which is now in previews and opens at Studio 54 on March 17), the challenges for its cast are to find the heart of a beloved but lesser-known show and to make it stand out in a fiercely competitive Broadway season.
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This portrait of four fiercely competitive friendships at the heart of modern art—between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, and Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon—is a tantalizing exploration of the role of passion in art.
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Fiercely competitive, Bryant, who once scorched the Toronto Raptors for 81 points, admitted it is not in his nature to pull punches when on the court but added he was not looking to put an exclamation mark on his All-Star career, at peace with his decision to retire.
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It was a crowded and fiercely competitive season for late-night talk shows, but this year, "Full Frontal With Samantha Bee," the topical TBS satire hosted by that "Daily Show" alumna, was one of six to earn an Emmy Award nomination Thursday in the variety talk series category.
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The only thing standing in the way at this point is the Trump DOJ, which has been all over the place when it comes to antitrust cases, and the FCC, which is headed up by a former telecom lobbyist who claims there is currently a "fiercely competitive marketplace" among mobile carriers.
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"Retail is fiercely competitive and it's common for companies to offer customers private label products — consumers see it every day when they walk into a store," said an Amazon spokesperson in a statement, which noted the company represented only a small percentage of global retail, although its share of online retail is large.
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Now DeepMind is turning its attention to a game that will pose an even bigger challenge: StarCraft II. Blizzard Entertainment's real-time strategy hit is one of the most fiercely competitive games played professionally around the world, and the company is working together with DeepMind to release it as an AI research environment.
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Like its peers, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based retailer, which has closed more than 100 stores since 153 and cut thousands of jobs as mall traffic plummeted, faltered in the past few years as it struggled to adjust to a fiercely competitive retail landscape where shoppers buy more goods online at places like Amazon.
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Like its peers, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based retailer, which has closed more than 100 stores since 2015 and cut thousands of jobs as mall traffic plummeted, faltered in the past few years as it struggled to adjust to a fiercely competitive retail landscape where shoppers buy more goods online at places like Amazon.
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"Despite the hard work of everyone on that staff, which has produced much outstanding journalism and great scoops, establishing a steady and sustainable audience for a relatively young site has proved challenging in a fiercely competitive sector," Mr. Maidment wrote in the staff email, which was provided to The New York Times.
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When it was over, Galen Rupp had run away with the men's race for a second consecutive time, and Aliphine Tuliamuk had prevailed in a fiercely competitive women's race with a time of 343:27:23 on the punishing course, less than a minute off her personal best of 2:26:50.
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When it was over, Galen Rupp had run away with the men's race for a second consecutive time, and Aliphine Tuliamuk had prevailed in a fiercely competitive women's race with a time of 343:27:23 on the punishing course, less than a minute off her personal best of 2:26:50.
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Like its peers, the Cincinnati, Ohio-based department store chain, which has closed more than 100 stores since 2015 and cut thousands of jobs as mall traffic plummeted, faltered in the past few years as it struggled to adjust to a fiercely competitive retail landscape where shoppers buy more goods online at places like Amazon.
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The battle to get attention — and the knowledge that with a national or even global audience in play, even a fraction of the total universe would still be a lot of people — incentivizes a news ethos that has more in common with the UK's fiercely competitive tabloid market than America's staid big-city broadsheets.
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Trinity Mirror, which publishes The Daily Mirror, said on Friday that it had agreed to acquire the print assets of the Northern & Shell Media Group, which publishes The Daily Express, in a deal that would bring together news outlets on opposite ends of the political spectrum and shake up Britain's fiercely competitive newspaper market.
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LONDON — The publisher of The Daily Mirror, a left-wing tabloid in Britain, said on Friday that it was negotiating to acquire the print assets of the Northern & Shell Media Group, in what would be a major shake-up of the country's fiercely competitive newspaper market, bringing together outlets on opposite ends of the political spectrum.
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Fiercely competitive, they offer everything from extensive benefits for parents — Facebook gives four months of paid leave, daycare reimbursement, adoption fee reimbursement and $4,000 cash to pay for new arrivals — to free meals, car washes, swimming pools and volleyball courts at Google's Googleplex facility, and some pretty hefty salaries: The average salary at Facebook is $117,000, at Google $113,000 and at Apple $120,000.
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With Democrat Ralph Northam winning Virginia's fiercely competitive governor's race Tuesday night, you would think that would mean a sigh of relief for the Latino group that inserted itself into the last week of the campaign, drawing harsh criticism over an ad that showed a pickup truck with a Confederate flag and a bumper sticker for Republican Ed Gillespie chasing down minority children.
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Several Qualcomm shareholders interviewed by Reuters said they were willing to give Mollenkopf, who has been CEO since March 27.50, only one to two more years to show he can diversify the company's business beyond the fiercely competitive mobile phone sector that now accounts for the vast majority of its business, and settle disputes with Apple Inc and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
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The issue, to me, was not so much that Dunham needed to apologize for the types of women she chose to focus on, but that the people of color who did appear on the show were played simplistically to type: An older black man was written as a mouthy homeless nuisance; a young Asian-American woman as a fiercely competitive goody two-shoes.
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The new card should help Paytm stay a step ahead of rivals in the fiercely competitive digital payments market in India where companies from Alphabet Inc-owned Google to Walmart-owned PhonePe, are all scrambling to grab a piece of the digital payments pie that is projected to grow to $500 billion by 2020, according to the Boston Consulting Group.
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The $39.99 price point is not yet set in stone – it could still come down, but won't likely rise given Hulu's earlier promises and the now fiercely competitive market for streaming TV. Asked about the pricing, a Hulu spokesperson said the company is still in the process of building its live content package and has not finalized any pricing yet.
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"Perhaps there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel after all," said Richard Hunter, head of research at Wilson King Investment Management "The generally upbeat feel to these numbers is capped off by an ambitious operating margin target, which...would be particularly hard won in such a fiercely competitive industry," said Hunter, whose firm is not an investor in Tesco.
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"Changing lifestyle habits, an increasing focus on health and food quality as well as growing distrust of the food industry in the wake of recent health scandals is propelling fresh and organic food sales higher in France, allowing retailers to benefit from higher prices and strengthen their earnings and margins, amidst a fiercely competitive environment," Vincent Gusdorf, senior analyst at Moody's said in a recent note.
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Interviews with more than a dozen associates, as well as an examination of legal filings, portray Mr. McGahn, 48, as an advocate with an impressive command of arcane election law, but also a fiercely competitive and even intimidating man eager to scrap with opponents — to "duke it out," as he once said — in pressing the argument that donations of political money are a form of free speech.
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With more than 8,000 applicants to Chivas Ventures from around the world, it was fiercely competitive to win a place, said Michal Matus - whose Slovakian social enterprise, Save the Bees, sells technology to beekeepers so they can monitor their hives "You are like a needle in the haystack," he said about getting selected for such competitions, having been named one of the top 10 finalists at Chivas Ventures.
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I'd like to think I'd always side with the entrepreneur in this situation — it's who we are and it's our mission at 8VC — but I'm also driven to win for my LPs who are betting on me: I know my partners and I feel strongly about being good players and role models in the ecosystem, but we are also fiercely competitive to do as well as possible for our IRR.
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But exactly what long-term growth opportunities HTC believes it can capture is questionable, given how fiercely competitive the smartphone market continues to be (with Chinese OEMs making what running there is in a shrinking global market); and how the VR market — which HTC bet big on in 2015, with Vive and Valve, to try to diversify beyond mobile — has hardly turned out to be the next major computing paradigm.
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Deutsche Börse itself is in talks to merge with the London Stock Exchange — once a takeover target for Nasdaq — but the Intercontinental Exchange which owns the New York Stock Exchange is considering making a counterbid for the L.S.E. The I.S.E., which consists of three stock options markets, will help bolster Nasdaq's presence in a fiercely competitive industry that has been growing faster than the traditional equity exchange business.
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While that bonus has since dropped, the card remains a powerhouse of value, and the Ultimate Rewards program is fiercely competitive, with a ton of different ways to redeem points and a number of different cards available with varied benefitsIf you're looking for a new Chase card to boost your stores of Ultimate Rewards points, or you're interested in getting access to new benefits or perks, it might be worth opening a new Chase card — just make sure that you know how opening a new card for the sign-up bonus or benefits can affect your credit.
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Retail Trends in 2020 & The Future of RetailDirect-to-Consumer Brands Will Go MainstreamFrictionless Commerce Will Speed Up Traditional Retail TransactionsBrandless Brands Will Begin to SurgeSocial Commerce Will Shine Mid-FunnelShoppable Video & Voice Technology Will GrowThe Battle for Faster Delivery Will Accelerate EcommerceThe Rise of 'Retail as a Service' for Both Ecommerce and Brick-and-MortarIncreased Subscription Commerce & Building Customer Loyalty for GrowthThe Rise of Recommerce (Resale of Secondhand Goods)Digital Installment Payment Plans Will Become More Popular in a Tight EconomyMore to LearnWith a presently strong economy – but potential recession looming – understanding not merely the top retail trends, but also the underlying reasons for each of them is crucial to gaining an advantage in a fiercely competitive industry.
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SoFi dumps Visa and makes Mastercard its exclusive partner as it gears up to add a credit card alongside its debit cardA star quant just left JPMorgan for Citigroup in one of the most fiercely competitive hiring grounds on Wall Street&aposWe fell short in Q4&apos: WeWork only hit 73% of an internal enterprise growth target in 2019, leaked memo showsBillionaire Seth Klarman blames low rates and &aposcapitalist excess&apos for his fund&aposs languishing returns — and says we&aposve seen only the &apostip of the overvaluation iceberg&aposGreenlight Capital&aposs David Einhorn is adding to his bet against Netflix and loading up on gold, a new investor letter showsPrivate equity firm Partners Group just got hit with a trade-secrets lawsuit from a railroad company that says it took investment ideas
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