This setup has allowed companies like Apple to monopolize iPhone repair, John Deere to monopolize tractor repair, and Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo to monopolize console repair.
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Now, current and former generals all but monopolize the debate.
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"It really sucks we can't monopolize on that," she said.
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It is one of fascism's goals to monopolize our attention.
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Well, the strategy Tesla is using to monopolize repair in Denmark is the exact same one Apple and other electronics manufacturers have used in an attempt to monopolize smartphone repair in the United States.
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"Central government is still trying to monopolize the sector," Atallah said.
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This might be the real reason I like to monopolize the cooking.
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Pyongyang does its best to block information, censor speech and monopolize knowledge.
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The fact remains that men monopolize most of the highest-earning jobs.
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Netflix has spent billions doing everything it can to monopolize its users' time.
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They don't need to monopolize much of that share shift to still grow.
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Most glaringly, it fails to monopolize the use of force or to provide security.
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But letting one or two nationalities monopolize employment visas is fair to no one.
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Instead, we bumbled our way into giving a company the power to monopolize us.
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Senior intelligence officials also get their say, but they do not monopolize the discussion.
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Imagine a world in which Microsoft had been allowed to monopolize the browser business.
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" The rules, the plaintiffs continued, represented an "unlawful agreement to monopolize and restrain competition.
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"A single journalist's attempt to monopolize a press conference is not a viewpoint," Burnham said.
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"They do start to monopolize the opportunities," said the top executive at a rival studio.
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For platforms that monopolize markets, certain companies win because the market can't support multiple platforms.
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And now that it's here, the company continues to monopolize the way humans interact online.
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The company had been granted patents on those genes, enabling it to monopolize the testing.
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For the time being, his ballets monopolize the repertory — and that's not a bad thing.
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I, and many other Americans, are bound to whichever ISP happens to monopolize the area.
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You lobbied for certain laws in order to get charters or monopolize a certain industry.
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Meanwhile male authors on our panels monopolize the mic to the great delight of the crowd.
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"This does not mean that VTB wants to monopolize everything using state influence," the source said.
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At best, we are settling the wilderness for those who will later monopolize our new world.
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We trade weapons, we monopolize raw materials—that has caused so much conflict in the world.
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Other times, businesses and individuals compete to invent a new product that they can successfully monopolize.
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The lizards, however, I liked, and I schemed to monopolize their tiny bodies in my palm.
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Even unmemorable debates generally monopolize the nation's political attention for at least a couple of hours.
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Pyne said he thought the idea that the merged company would monopolize the business was overblown.
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Snap says it's expanding its Spectacles rollout, but still, they're probably not going to monopolize everyone's faces.
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But you never want to monopolize a host's time because they have to spread it among everyone.
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" "He used to be able to monopolize the news cycle and earn media time to his benefit.
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"If I were a world leader, my goal would be to monopolize the world's talent," Cook said.
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Since yesterday when Rudy Giuliani, he gives an appearance and he does manage to monopolize the narrative.
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It also demonstrates an attempt by Match to monopolize the very practice of making real, meaningful connections.
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Iowa and New Hampshire unfairly monopolize the candidates' time, energy, and resources for at least a year.
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"If I were a world leader, my goal would be to monopolize the world's talent," Cook added.
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Like the teenage girls who monopolize its attention, "Kill Me Please" is moody, lovely, preening and libidinous.
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In turn, China hopes to monopolize the market for technology services for its huge domestic consumer market.
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She said she felt he wasn't respecting her other relationships because he was trying to monopolize her time.
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People often attribute our contemporary sense of perpetual crisis to social media, as scrolling newsfeeds monopolize our attention.
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Over time, they've come to monopolize the adoption market, given their access to highly motivated and passionate recruits.
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He said "it means Amazon won't be able to monopolize all of our government's cloud-related" defense spending.
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Yes, this benefits devs, but not having one store monopolize the entire ecosystem will benefit consumers as well.
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That's because white women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain.
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But in an era when established platforms tend to monopolize entire sectors, taking on Twitch has proved difficult.
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He thought he'd be running the classic conservative outsider candidacy: win Iowa, win the South, monopolize the religious vote.
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Privately minted coins also circulated at times — up until the 1860s when Congress began to monopolize the monetary system.
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"We are not trying to monopolize a category of spirit here, we are trying to share it," promises Arnett.
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This vicious cycle of hatred and revenge is employed all too often to promote political gains and monopolize power.
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Don't monopolize the best vantage points, or cause the tour to fall behind schedule as you play Ansel Adams.
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But bigger male fish in some environments monopolize several partners, so smaller fish have to resort to other means.
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This means not freedom to inflict harm (pollute, monopolize) but freedom from harm (climate violence, financial fraud, unsafe products).
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In theory, the federal government ensures that markets remain competitive despite efforts by powerful businesses to monopolize the market.
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Some say that a decentralized system will never work, that a company like Amazon will come through and monopolize identity.
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Instead, Donahue parallels the child's efforts to monopolize her mother's body, time and space by using color, line, and shape.
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That will no doubt monopolize the majority of the event, but Apple could well have some surprises up its sleeve.
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Elizabethe Warren (D-Mass.): Warren wants to break up Big Tech companies she says monopolize industries and harm small business.
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I deliberately seek out alternatives to do what I can, as a consumer, not to help them monopolize the market.
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Yet since the end of apartheid in 1994, the governing ANC has worked hard to monopolize the history of liberation.
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Halfway through 2018, though, it's become clear that social media sites' attempts to monopolize our time are worse than ever.
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This counterintuitive fact has far-reaching implications as manufacturers have stepped up their attempts to monopolize the device repair market.
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Infographics and 3D models of Outland's Olympus Outpost on Saturn's most profitable moon, Titan, monopolize the wings of the stage.
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Things will get worse as the companies continue to monopolize and products become more dangerous—self-driving cars, AI robots.
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" Hane, who writes at the top of his voice, continues, "It is one of fascism's goals to monopolize our attention.
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Indians were concerned Facebook was trying to determine exactly what the country looked at online in attempt to monopolize the internet.
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My prediction is that Uber will monopolize that time through personalized and premium content that's served through the app during rides.
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There's still no screens on the toys to monopolize young children's attention, but the toys do have a four button interface.
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We've had yet another few days of outrageous tweets from President Trump all designed, it seems, to monopolize the national conversation.
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" Taylor and her legal team say Hall and Butler cannot "monopolize the idea that players will play and haters will hate.
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He continues to monopolize the spotlight to secure reelection, even though he won't convince Trump's wall supporters of the wall's futility.
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As republicans stumble over their own proposals, the high level of industry consolidation threatens to monopolize the delivery of health services.
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"For a person looking for love and romance, it can feel wonderful that someone wants to monopolize your time," she admitted.
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Because Mueller can't and won't discuss the investigation, Rudy gets to monopolize the airwaves and frame the debate on his terms.
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I came to the department eager to de-monopolize Russian energy companies and to introduce alternative and renewable energy to Russia.
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It has always been this way: The best teams monopolize possession, which means their opponents have always focused on damage limitation.
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On the other hand, it wants to monopolize that community space, deciding for itself how to best monetize and exploit it.
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In the Arctic arena, Moscow calculated that it could dominate the Northern Sea Route and monopolize access to polar mineral wealth.
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The fact that many computers are competing to verify a block ensures that no single computer can monopolize the Bitcoin market.
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Sims also said he supported a government proposal to reform competition laws and reduce the ability of big businesses to monopolize markets.
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I include Midnight Dogs in these articles all the time, because they've found a way to monopolize all the best bootleg ideas.
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I don't want anyone to suffer financially or socially just because current regulation allows the hearing aid companies to monopolize this space.
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What we do not need is reliance on one or two behemoth companies that monopolize federal contracts and charge through the nose.
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The goal of these entrepreneurs is to rebuild existing industries with new technology, monopolize the market, and watch the profits roll in.
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Many fear that big money will come in, monopolize the industry and leave those on the margins exactly where it found them.
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Or maybe you're at a point in your life when you want work that doesn't monopolize almost all of your waking hours.
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"The First Amendment is not served when a single reporter, of more than 150 present, attempts to monopolize the floor," Sanders said.
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If multiple women run, no one Democrat could monopolize the vision of breaking a glass ceiling, as Hillary Clinton did in 2016.
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According to her plan, Warren wants to break up mergers between major tech companies that monopolize a specific sphere of the industry.
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"Mobile phones are a technological advance but they cannot monopolize our lives," Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told LCI news TV channel.
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It's impolite and disrespectful to monopolize the conversation with your strong opinions, especially when they are ruining the mood of the celebration.
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Something in her was eager to expand, to monopolize, to be casually selfish, in the way that others often were with her.
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Those patents, which the company vigorously defended during Mr. Meldrum's tenure, enabled Myriad to monopolize the testing for mutations in the genes.
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With our fractured media landscape, it's a fascinating look at how gatekeepers throughout history have tried to monopolize the distribution of information.
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"If those ideas are enforced as trade secrets, [Alphabet self-driving subsidiary] Waymo could monopolize lidar," Uber said in a filing last week.
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Amazon is enacting a plan to monopolize not just internet retail, but the cloud computing and transit systems that power online commerce itself.
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Apple has taken many steps to protect the security of their customers, but in doing so, has worked to monopolize the repair business.
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The Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act would eliminate country caps on immigration and allow Indians to monopolize the share of green cards.
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Unskilled volunteers who do not speak the language may monopolize local personnel with their interpreting needs without providing much of value in return.
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Apple is in the middle of a US Supreme Court case about whether it used unlawful business tactics to monopolize its app store.
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Because when it comes to the Oscars red carpet, there's too much at stake for the international houses not to monopolize that stage.
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The French refusal to decolonize enabled the Communists to monopolize the nationalist mantle as they bogged the French down in a guerrilla war.
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Wynn consistently refused efforts to consider Aruze USA directors for the board, in an effort to continue to monopolize control over Wynn Resorts.
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Ticket prices are high not because U.S. Soccer needs to recoup costs, but because they are about to monopolize major American soccer tournaments.
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It has virtually no relationship to a real election, but it has for years managed to monopolize the kick-off in the nominating process.
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The authority would examine whether such companies were misusing their advantages in order to push other players out and monopolize the market, she said.
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My fan obsession did not plaster itself onto the walls of my room or monopolize my friends' time at school like typical teen dreams.
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Meanwhile, the biggest concern for underground growers like Trip is that a large corporation or "Big Cannabis" will come in and monopolize the market.
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Since independence, the country's southern-based government has been able to monopolize political power by marginalizing ethno-political groupings residing in its desert north.
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The person standing between the likes of Apple and John Deere in their eternal quest to monopolize the repair of the products they sell.
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At the next night's pre-Rose Ceremony cocktail party, Olivia continues to monopolize Ben's time, which really sets Lace and her alter-egos off.
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They monopolize a certain number of tables all night long, drink too much, and eventually get on the nerves of all the other customers.
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In the timeline (which for all its beauty will entirely monopolize your CPU usage) you navigate the history of space as a young cosmonaut.
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Markovits's answer is that the twenty-first-century economy was made complex by the élite in order to monopolize high-paying jobs for itself.
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For 100 years, a tiny oligarchic elite has fought ferociously to keep hold of the reins of power and monopolize the nation's export economy.
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Even the ones that have ambitious long-term goal to monopolize a broad and large market with a big audience, start with much smaller ones.
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Trump is going to monopolize our minds for years to come, and the legislation he'll sign into law will affect the country long beyond that.
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Click through to read up on the times some of your favorite idols proved that us normal folks don't monopolize zits — acne is equal opportunity.
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A common science fiction trope is that future technology will be centralized — governments will control information technology, or the rich will monopolize health care tech.
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While the health-care sector dominated the highest-paying jobs, positions in the service industry monopolize the low end, ranging from gaming dealers to dishwashers.
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Unlike Facebook, they aren't trying to vacuum up all the data they can and monopolize people's attention in order to make billions in online advertising.
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A second avenue the Justice Department could pursue is under Section 23.6 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits an "attempt to monopolize" trade or commerce.
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When it comes to logo design, originality is no measure of success—but the ability to monopolize an industry with just a few lines definitely is.
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It's also a source of judgment for homeless people using public computers: How can someone monopolize such a resource just to browse reddit or watch YouTube?
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In a hyper-polarized environment, it's not hard to imagine that partisan rhetoric will eventually monopolize the analysis of what Sanders' heart disease means for 2020.
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We've seen plenty of stories, sometimes satirical and sometimes chilling, about how the Joker feels tied to Batman and wants to impress him or monopolize him.
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Companies like Apple have also long attempted to monopolize repair to fatten their revenues, engaging in ham-fisted legal attacks on small third-party repair shops.
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But what if it is government itself that is the source of exploitation, the force allowing the economic elite to monopolize resources and abuse working people?
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As official — that is, highly stylized and controlled — celebrity accounts monopolize access, the Instagram feeds of the fame-adjacent provide the insight that probing fans desire.
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The fear was that Microsoft would kill Netscape, monopolize the browser market and use that point of control to dominate the coming age of the web.
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Not only do public defenders tend to be underfunded, law enforcement can monopolize the experts in the field and forbid them from working for the defense.
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They're not monopolies because—as their argument goes—how can one or two or even four companies monopolize the seemingly eternal digital space of the internet?
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There was a gap of about 50 blocks between the time that the winning address was able to monopolize blocks and the time of the jackpot payout.
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Bringing together their anti-trust and broadband plans would prevent telecommunications firms from continuing to monopolize the industry (one of the least competitive in the U.S. economy).
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He mints fresh insults to monopolize the spotlight, but that's most likely a spontaneous reaction to how cold and lonely he becomes whenever it starts to recede.
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The blunt argument of his camp and supporters is that only his billions can monopolize the airwaves and web sufficiently to be the viable alternative to Sanders.
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Mr. Stanekzai, the Taliban's chief negotiator, said in a speech lasting more than half an hour that the group did not seek to monopolize power inside Afghanistan.
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One similarity is that when President Nixon came to the presidency, the television era was just beginning to really monopolize people's attention as a source for news.
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"White women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain," Alexis Grenell wrote at the New York Times after the Kavanaugh vote.
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And by ditching videos and only pulling images in full-resolution when necessary, it loads fast on weak connections and is less likely to monopolize people's data plans.
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A.A. Dowd, AV Club: The film's villain, played by Ben Mendelsohn, is a bigwig slimeball who wants to monopolize and monetize The Oasis through excessive pop-up ads.
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"A single journalist's attempt to monopolize a press conference is not a viewpoint and revoking a hard pass in response to that is not viewpoint discrimination," Burnham said.
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Similarly, large majorities of conservatives believed Congress should make sure that cable companies don't "monopolize the internet" or "reduce the inherent equality of the internet" through differential pricing.
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Fellow cyclists should not monopolize one person's time, and, unless the group is exceptionally competitive, "You don't want to just drop the person you're riding with," he said.
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Grief is inherently selfish — we can't help but dwell on what the dead meant to us — so resist the urge to monopolize the grieving person's time or attention.
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In an era that has seen the emergence of comprehensive, right-wing propaganda campaigns, two tech companies—Facebook and Google—have started to monopolize how we consume information.
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Getting into the OTT game before Facebook and Google can monopolize it could ensure that publishers have a viable chance to monetize verified content on a new platform.
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" The specific intent to monopolize does not mean that one seeks monopoly power by competing vigorously, but that it is an "intent to destroy competition or build monopoly.
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Many social media applications are engineered to be at least somewhat addictive, and often their business models depend on the apps' ability to monopolize users' time and attention.
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Critics say deregulating the media industry will lead to extreme consolidation, paving the way for media giants such as the Sinclair Broadcast Group to monopolize local news organizations.
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But rival airlines convinced the US Congress that Pan Am threatened to monopolize US aviation, and the Civil Aeronautics Board repeatedly denied Pan Am permission to operate domestically.
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Ponton would not monopolize Enerchain software, Metz said, but step back to develop other products, to simplify peer-to-peer grid processes and speed north Germany's green power supply.
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Not only do they own some significant proportion of the city's hot dog carts, but they also monopolize the best spots, like the ones in front of the Met.
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Women who join majority-male boards or committees often encounter barriers to their authority like men who, whether intentionally or not, monopolize the discussion or interrupt women's speaking turns.
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Not to justify their position, but they reacted too late to Napster and then let Apple monopolize the market with iTunes, so they are hesitant to grant any favors.
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BLM's crafty ability to monopolize Facebook, Google and Twitter for the purposes of organizing, radicalizing, and funding protests — including some that turned violent — was like nothing ever seen before.
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As one of the most established names in the gaming industry, EA stands poised to monopolize the growth in the industry if it can successfully move into new formats.
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But whatever authority she has, as the nation's state counselor, is dwarfed by that of a military that ruled for nearly half a century and continues to monopolize power.
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Craig Aaron, president of the group Free Press, said the proposal would pave the way for media giants such as the Sinclair Broadcast Group to monopolize local news organizations.
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Either man could seek to monopolize the party's moderate constituencies: Mr. Biden through his stature as a two-term vice president, Mr. Bloomberg by spending his multibillion-dollar fortune.
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Kim, the judge, said Park "abandoned constitutionally-given responsibility and gave position and power to others" and that Choi used her position "to monopolize state business and seek personal gain".
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The daughter of former Uzbekistan leader Islam Karimov, Karimova headed a powerful organized crime syndicate that used state institutions to expropriate businesses, monopolize markets, solicit bribes, and administer extortion rackets.
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Even the corporate search and social platforms that later came to monopolize the net originally vowed never to allow advertising because it would taint the humanistic cultures they were creating.
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This morning, though, I have to print packets for my English class, so I need be at school before all the other teachers monopolize the printers in the staff room.
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Craig Aaron, president of the group Free Press, said that the proposal would pave the way for media giants such as the Sinclair Broadcast Group to monopolize local news organizations.
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Snap is a closely watched barometer for whether smaller consumer internet companies can compete with giants like Facebook, which has worked to monopolize users of social networks and chat apps.
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As smoke from Australia's bushfires reaches communities half a world away in South America, it should surely surprise very few that environmental threats now monopolize the risks facing our world.
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Anti-Muslim bigots have a constitutional right to express themselves, but lawmakers should not allow people like them to monopolize the narrative about what it means to be an American.
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Principally, those actors who have figured out how to hack and monopolize the old system will seek to ensure the new system does not threaten their concentrated hold on power.
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You have to have these little mom and pop shops that know these cars well, that'll fix it for a decent price, so that the manufacturer can't monopolize the repair.
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"The USPTO has finally agreed that 'Let's Play' is a common term in the industry and it issued a strong rebuke of Sony's attempt to monopolize the term," the post said.
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In typical Kardashian fashion, Kim herself has even found a way to monopolize her mascara-streaked grimaces: she sells personalized emoji (Kimoji) on her site, making fun of her distraught expressions.
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An estimated 25 million people see a news story on Facebook every week, and the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution.
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However, it will likely not be welcomed by those who profit from a lack of transparency in the music industry, or big tech companies that prefer to monopolize rather than share.
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With their guitar effects pedals and expensive synthesizers, as well as the impenetrable barrier of Canadian faux-humility, Drew's master plan to monopolize the local music scene is put into motion.
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An estimated 600 million people see a news story on Facebook every week, and the social network's founder Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution.
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Whenever government tries to monopolize the issuance of money, and forces that money on the people through legal tender laws, the temptation to debase that money is too great to withstand.
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A Quartz article published in November aired the concerns of numerous critics of Compass, who claimed that the company was backed by dubious investors and was attempting to monopolize magic mushrooms.
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But the minute they get a chance to monopolize the market, suddenly the same companies are singing "Kumbaya" and collaborating to make sure their businesses can't be disrupted down the road.
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If he can monopolize support from black voters—which may require outmaneuvering Kamala Harris—and pick up enough moderate Democrats, he could conceivably be the party's pick to take down Trump.
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The role of an activist government, as Roosevelt sees it, is not to monopolize any given service, on a command-economy model, but to exist as a permanently nonextortionate market player.
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She has one quasi-friend, Sarah, but it's a parasitic situation—Millie lets Sarah monopolize conversations, which makes Sarah rely on Millie's company, which gives Millie a way to feel superior.
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The tourney at Harrenhal would've scorched any Westerosi gossip magazine, but it would also monopolize the medieval equivalent of cable news because of the implications for Houses Stark, Baratheon, Martell, and Targaryen.
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Now Pichai says that a substantial minority of YouTube viewing is happening on TV sets — a direct challenge to the TV programmers that until recently have been able to monopolize that screen.
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Then, those elite workers use their massive incomes to monopolize elite education for their children, ensuring that their offspring are more qualified to dominate high-skilled industries than their middle-class counterparts.
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The only reason it's under discussion is because Trump himself raised a stink about it on Twitter — and Donald Trump shouldn't be granted the power to monopolize your attention in that way.
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Its corporate and landowning oligarchs monopolize economic and political power, but the state's ills are always laid at the feet of lower-class whites like Bob Ewell and his troubled daughter Mayella.
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Similarly, since capturing territory in Syria, the Y.P.G. has worked to monopolize power, establishing a one-party system that has suppressed Kurdish opponents as well as leaders and activists from other communities.
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The Rubio campaign never really abandoned its flawed theory, even as it became clear that Donald Trump would monopolize news coverage and make it hard for Rubio's media-driven strategy to take hold.
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Disney's California Adventure has World of Color, which seemed to monopolize the whole fountains-at-a-theme-park thing, but the West Coast is about to get a little bit of friendly competition.
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Since its inception—but particularly since it pivoted to streaming video in 21—Netflix has spent billions in pursuit of a single goal: to monopolize as much of its customers' time as possible.
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Tired of, as one Coloradan put it, "rotten old hulks who monopolize the offices and dwell upon the past," a generation of young men and women denounced their leaders and with them, partisanship.
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Now that Cyborg is out of the picture and the UFC's upcoming women's featherweight title fight is no longer completely devoid of legitimacy, the organization seems poised to monopolize the women's featherweight division.
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The difficulty of the competition, which is automatically calibrated by the software so that the puzzle becomes harder the more users join in, virtually ensures that no single user can monopolize the network.
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This acceleration was what would come to be associated with a mysterious repulsive force called dark energy, which acts as its driver and which should monopolize the vast majority of all energy in existence.
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And there is a greater danger: When the world grows more complex, as it has in our age of global technocracy, specialists begin to monopolize information and use it as a tool of control.
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"The agenda for these apps is to hold people's attention and monopolize a user's activities on their mobile devices," he added, explaining that higher engagement in an app translates to higher revenue from advertising.
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Swift's mere presence sucks all the air out of the music industry, and with a nearly three-month album rollout ahead, she'll monopolize the press cycle through the holiday season, and well into 2018.
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The spread of the virus and the abundance of elderly patients have worried experts, many of whom are concerned that the outbreak threatens to monopolize the attention and resources of Italy's public health system.
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And for some time, the industry has faced rampant speculation about how sustainable the current model is for art fairs, as blue-chip galleries monopolize the market while small and mid-sized galleries close.
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So long as the site owner let people know about Coinhive up front and didn't let the script monopolize processing power, it was a relatively ethical way for website operators to turn traffic into income.
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"We've been watching the news about him on TV here," said Karen Latter, 54, who, with her husband and two daughters, was visiting from Leicester, England, where Mr. Trump also tends to monopolize the airwaves.
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A simple majority of lawmakers would need to vote to allow the debate to proceed — and if the measures advanced, the group of senators could monopolize hours of floor time as soon as mid-June.
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Yet California's unusual open-primary system has become a difficult obstacle for Democrats, as a horde of candidates on the left have divided up Democratic votes and threatened to let Republicans monopolize the general election.
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"I'm not so sure the federal government should monopolize student lending," she said in a speech at the start of a four-day training conference in Reno for 5,000 financial aid officers from schools nationwide.
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While all technology claims to add convenience to our lives, some do it in a way that aims to monopolize our attention, while with and other companies take the feeling of "technology" out of technology.
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The consumer now has access to most of what Realtors used to monopolize, and 44% of them now go to the internet as their first place to search for a home, according to NAR's own surveys.
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The idea was that the internet should be a public service that everyone has a right to use, not a privilege, and that regulating ISPs like utilities would prevent them from hijacking or monopolize that access.
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NEW YORK, June 6 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday said Glencore Plc must face a private antitrust lawsuit accused it of trying to monopolize the market for special high-grade zinc, driving up its price.
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Meanwhile, some American and Afghan officials believe that the Taliban seek to monopolize power, revive the Islamic Emirate that they established in Afghanistan in the 1990s and potentially allow safe havens for groups like Al Qaeda.
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Economists now have an outsized hand in running the government and as sociologist Marion Fourade finds, economics is the best paid and most cited field in the social sciences and economists monopolize the marketplace of ideas.
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Washington's concern has been that a Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm would mean that America's only player in the 5G race would be eliminated through budget cutting, leaving China to monopolize a key technology standard for a generation.
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The incensed reaction to the Fine brothers' proposal was driven by the fear that they would use those trademark claims and their copyright over their existing reaction videos to choke off competition and essentially monopolize the genre.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dubai-based cryptocurrency firm Alibabacoin Foundation on Tuesday said Alibaba Group Holding Ltd cannot monopolize the "magical" Alibaba name, and asked a U.S. judge to dismiss the Chinese e-commerce retailer's trademark lawsuit.
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In short, Canada's government has been cheating the rules — giving hefty subsidies to Canadian lumber mills so they can sell their lumber at distorted prices in an effort to push out U.S. producers and monopolize the market.
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As part of their effort to abuse copyright to monopolize repair, manufacturers like GM and John Deere have long claimed consumers don't actually own the software in the vehicles and tractors they've spent thousands of dollars on.
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Fluxus may have been a way for the domineering Mr. Maciunas, an admirer of military history, to try to conquer and monopolize the avant-garde — though at times he had some difficulty bending artists to his will.
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The horrific ethnic violence in South Sudan, which is estimated to have cost more than 380,000 lives and devastated its fragile economy, underscores another worrying trend: increasingly protracted crises that monopolize ever higher shares of available aid.
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A new European directive, which becomes effective in January 2018, would enable third party businesses to monopolize on banks' software and customer data to build new products – something referred to in the fintech world as "open banking".
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But a stronger U.S. military presence in Iraqi Kurdistan would serve our national interest by countering both Turkey and Iran, predatory states seeking to dominate the region, monopolize its oil, and extinguish the democratic aspirations of its people.
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In recent years, this has, for many product categories, become the dominant way to sell products online, and has allowed Amazon to not only monopolize the consumer-facing online shopping experience but also the back-end of ecommerce.
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Maybe that's why he saves his harshest scorn for the titans of Big Agriculture who, without ever getting their own hands dirty, try to monopolize California's water, maximizing their own yields while robbing from their less powerful neighbors.
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With parliament in recess, Abe was "able to use the 'crisis' in North Korea to monopolize the spotlight by getting the media to portray him as a strong leader," said Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University.
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As the iPhone becomes increasingly impenetrable, as more data is hosted on Apple devices and in the cloud, and as Apple's sales figures continue to soar, Apple becomes more able to monopolize the entirety of its users' communications experience.
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"We saw a remarkable range of consumers, developers, computer scientists, and businesses saying that open software interfaces promote innovation and that no single company like Oracle should be able to monopolize creativity," Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda told Business Insider.
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"We saw a remarkable range of consumers, developers, computer scientists, and businesses saying that open software interfaces promote innovation and that no single company like Oracle should be able to monopolize creativity," Google spokesman Jose Castaneda told Business Insider.
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But all of these sites are wildly different in focus, scale, and target audience, and thanks to years of unregulated practices that have allowed giant companies like Google to monopolize the internet, there's really no platform comparable to YouTube.
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On the other hand, one wishes that there were a four-flavor option, because the restaurant actually offers two "all-red" versions: one vegetarian and one with beef tallow, which tends to monopolize the flavor with its pungent gaminess.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge said on Monday two units of Anglo-Swiss mining company Glencore Plc must face a private antitrust lawsuit accusing them of trying to monopolize the market for special high grade zinc, driving up its price.
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Because even if you actually go and sort of monopolize the trade policies, and maybe take care of the globalism versus the nationalism, the digitization and the automation has actually taken away a lot of those jobs in the Midwest.
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Your band is having creative differences and you're wondering if this tour will be your last tour before Gary gets that high-powered corporate job that will monopolize all his time and drain the indie punk rock right out of him?
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For Correllium, Sandcastle not only highlights the draconian nature of Apple's walled garden ecosystems, but its habit of hiding anti-competitive behavior behind cybersecurity concerns (much as it uses security and safety fears to justify its attempts to monopolize repair).
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"A remarkable range of consumers, developers, computer scientists, and businesses agree that open software interfaces promote innovation and that no single company should be able to monopolize creativity by blocking software tools from working together," responded Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda.
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"The goal of Amazon and Flipkart is to bring in crony capitalism in India, dominate and monopolize the market, wipe out the competition, and leave consumers with no choice," CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal told BuzzFeed News at the protest site.
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For the first time, a member of Mr. Ben Ali's family circle openly described how he had built his business empire by bribing customs officials and using his presidential connections to monopolize import concessions and flout legal and financial regulations.
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According to prosecutors, the company was able to monopolize treatment of the illness with Acthar by buying (and subsequently ignoring) rights to its only major competitor, a synthetic version called Synacthen that sold for a fraction of the price in Europe and Canada.
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" White House press secretary Sarah Sanders' response: "This is just more grandstanding from CNN, and we will vigorously defend against this lawsuit ... The First Amendment is not served when a single reporter, of more than 150 present, attempts to monopolize the floor.
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It's also very interesting—and not at all surprising—to see that MindGeek made AgeID to monopolize on the new age verification law, but, of course not wanting to lose their own under 18 viewers, they have now created their own VPN!
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For fast moving consumer goods brands, which inevitably have stacks of similarly priced rival products vying to catch consumers' eyes on shop shelves, the chance to peel away and monopolize consumers' attention in their own homes is clearly the equivalent of catnip.
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But the Economist argues that the streaming service's continued success could be its undoing: Some suspect that Netflix harbors ambitions to monopolize TV. Such a move would concentrate enormous amounts of cultural power in the hands of a few content commissioners and algorithms.
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The bill targets exclusionary conduct, a central and ill-defined concept in antitrust that was established in Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which makes it illegal to monopolize trade or commerce, or to attempt or conspire to do so.
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SoftBank has taken unprofitable companies, pumped them full of borrowed money to turn them into larger, still unprofitable companies, and hoped that with SoftBank's influx of cash, they can undercut market rates, monopolize an industry, jack the prices back up, and make off like bandits.
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UNITED NATIONS (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The refugee crisis triggered by conflict in the Middle East should not monopolize the first World Humanitarian Summit, which needs to find solutions to broader humanitarian problems, a top EU official and the head of a leading aid group said.
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The all-consuming Donald distraction — a campaign fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars of free television time and a regular stream of outbursts designed to monopolize the news cycle — has nearly buried what would be an enormous political story in any other season.
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Far from being a simple technological morality tale about the ways we can and cannot relate to machines, and how the tech sector seeks to monopolize more of the human experience, Eliza reveals itself to be something much more sweeping, yet also convincingly detailed.
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The leaking of conversations between Moro and prosecutors by the news website The Intercept was a positive step, according to Mendes, as it could be the nail in the coffin of the Car Wash investigation that had come to "monopolize" Brazil's war on corruption.
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As those industry titans monopolize the internet and diversify their businesses, their neutrality is coming under scrutiny, Jonathan Taplin, director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California, told CNBC's Akiko Fujita at the CLSA Investors' Forum in Hong Kong.
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Stones and High were driven to make the book not to monopolize on the renewed interest in 90s NYC culture and fashion, but to create a yearbook of their youth, focusing on the actual dynamics of their tightly knit group of skaters—and not the sensationalism.
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Kaspersky's thesis is that while social media remains wildly popular there are also widespread feelings of disaffection with how social giants such as Facebook monopolize people's time and attention, and how they lock users in by merit of holding both their friendship networks and their personal data.
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There are certain types of infrastructure, especially 5G wireless networks and other types of digital infrastructure, and certain geographic areas, particularly in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Asia and Africa, that the United States cannot allow China to dominate, much less monopolize to its advantage.
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Though 22013 has only barely hit the halfway point, it's clear this is one of the most consistently thrill-inducing years for new music in a long time—and not just for the big-name, big-hype records that tend to monopolize the pop-culture conversation.
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The Ministry of Civil Affairs said in comments published on its website late on Wednesday it would crack down on attempts by rural gangsters to intervene in village-level politics, monopolize rural resources, take over collectively owned assets and use "clan power" to oppress village communities.
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A 2014 report from the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, for example, suggested that when state governments monopolize alcohol sales through state-run shops — in effect removing the explicit for-profit incentive — they can keep prices higher, reduce access to youth, and reduce overall levels of use.
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"A remarkable range of consumers, developers, computer scientists, and businesses agree that open software interfaces promote innovation and that no single company should be able to monopolize creativity by blocking software tools from working together," Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda told Business Insider in an email on Thursday.
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For two years now, he's done just that, waging psychological warfare by insulting powerful women who challenge him (such as Megyn Kelly and Nancy Pelosi), showing off images of crowds of the white men who now monopolize the halls of power, and defending alleged sexual predators like Roy Moore.
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In Clay Risen's fast-paced, carefully researched new history of Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders, which dazzled Americans during the Spanish-American War, the future president may be in the thick of the action, but he does not monopolize the story, quietly stepping aside for long stretches of time.
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Instead, a choked-off economy and its accompanying black markets allowed a group of the powerful people to monopolize the economy, giving rise to a mafia-like class that funneled wealth to the top or transferred it overseas, and deployed all its political and military capital to protect it.
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Google celebrates: "Today, we saw a remarkable range of consumers, developers, computer scientists, and businesses saying that open software interfaces promote innovation and that no single company like Oracle should be able to monopolize creativity," Kent Walker, Google's senior vice president of global affairs, said in a statement.
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"The plans advanced by the committee responsible for this process would monopolize a significant portion of DSA's money and resources behind a campaign structure that would leave us wholly disconnected from the broader coalition forming behind Sanders's candidacy," said Bryan Conlon, an organizer with the North Carolina Piedmont chapter of DSA.
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A $203 million settlement was reached, but 115 farmers in the Northeast rejected the settlement and allege that DFA and its marketing arm, Dairy Marketing Services, violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and conspired to monopolize the fluid milk market by having agreements with other co-ops to keep milk prices low.
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When King Abd al-Aziz, the founder of the modern kingdom of Saudi Arabia, who ruled from 1902 to 1953, set out to monopolize power, work with Western partners and find acknowledgment from the broader Muslim world, he felt the need to use Islamic reformism to weaken and moderate Wahhabism.
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Ex-Official Guilty of Manslaughter in Slayings on Coast (May 22, 20123) I.T.T. agreed to sell Continental Baking to Ralston Purina, the conglomerate that counted pet food among its better-known products, after the F.T.C. cleared I.T.T. of trying to monopolize the baking industry, a charge brought against it in 1974.
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It was the justification for breaking up Standard Oil, in 1911, and A.T. & T., in the early nineteen-eighties; for prosecuting Microsoft, in the nineteen-nineties, on the ground that it sought to monopolize the browser business; and for quashing the proposed merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast, last year.
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These things may all seem disparate but I think there's an awakening happening in America that people realize that a winners take all society has been built while they didn't even realize it, and it has essentially been designed to make sure that very few people monopolize the fruits of progress.
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There's lots of people in criminal justice that make money, if you think about private prisons, if you think about the contractors that build prisons, the agencies that make money off phone calls for people doing time, the companies that monopolize the sale of inflated food prices to people inside and so on.
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Part 3: Netflix doesn't want to be the leader in video, it wants to monopolize the consumption of video; to become TV. Free of structural limitations of linear TV, Netflix's output is bound only by the company's ambition, measured by content spend and its ability to attract audience — both of which are unprecedented.
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"We will continue working to push for regulation of taxis as a public service that doesn't strip independent drivers of their jobs and their income and deliver that which they have spent a lifetime defending to private multinationals who monopolize transport under the guise of being collaborative companies," reads a Fedetaxi press release.
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Last week, I put a bounty on photos of Apple's "iPhone Calibration Machine," a device in the back of every Apple store that allows the company to monopolize certain types of iPhone screen replacements and could be immensely important if the company ever decides to integrate its fingerprint sensor into the screen of the phone.
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Nonetheless, US District Judge Lucy Koh genuinely did raise the specter of Adobe breaking federal antitrust law with the Macromedia merger—as Koh did initially find that there appeared to be evidence that Adobe had violated Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which makes it a felony to conspire to monopolize a market.
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"People don't fully appreciate that the reason we have Google and Facebook today is because there was an antitrust enforcement action against Microsoft that slowed down the ability of Microsoft to monopolize the internet, the browsers, the data, search, and so on," said Luigi Zingales, finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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So Google, for example, according to the EU at least, has been found to have used its monopoly power in the search market in an anti-competitive way by pushing the comparison shopping competitors down to page four of the search results in order to create a dangerous probability that its shopping service will monopolize that second market.
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The End User License Agreements that come with essentially every piece of software; the terms of your broadband contract, which often includes provisions to allow for the sale of your data to advertisers; companies that use "Authorized Service Provider" programs to monopolize the repair market; the fine print in your credit card agreements or bank agreements.
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Mega-platforms have also benefited from self-sustaining feedback loops based on their vast reach and data holdings, allowing them to lock in and double down on a market dominating position by, for example, applying self-learning algorithms trained on their own user data or via A/B testing at vast, vast scale to optimize UX design to maximize engagement and monopolize attention.
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A number of witnesses warned that liberal democracies remain drastically unprepared for the ongoing onslaught of malicious, hypertargeted fakes; that adtech giants' business models are engineered for outrage and social division as an intentional choice and scheme to monopolize attention; and that even if we've now passed "peak vulnerability", in terms of societal susceptibility to Internet-based disinformation campaigns (purely as a consequence of how many eyes have been opened to the risks since 2016), the activity itself hasn't yet peaked and huge challenges for democratic nation states remain.
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The blockchain holds lots of promise, but cryptocurrencies are volatile, mining them is currently extremely bad for the environment, and they are even more centralized than the currencies they've been designed to replace (and, by the way, blockchain technology promises to create, for example, clothes that spy on us.) Ridesharing and driverless cars have thus far been industries dominated by extremely powerful Silicon Valley companies who have unilaterally rewritten or ignored regulations designed to protect humans, and companies like Uber, Google, and Lyft threaten to monopolize industries that have been the backbone of our economy and a major source of jobs for decades.
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