They're rivals.

They're your competition.

But firms also care about what their competitors do.

If I know what your competition does, how are you going to prevent your competition from eating your lunch over here?

Two of a trade seldom agree.

I don't know who the players are.

I don't know what the market is like.

Not surprisingly, Microsoft s competitors cheered the Commission throughout the entire investigation and appeal.

He always takes advantage of the mistakes made by his rivals.

Firms are discovering that their competitors with business method patents may seek to block them from improving their business strategies.

Fighting climate change does depend on all countries having confidence that their competitors will follow suit.

Its only option is to be better than the competition.

Complete Genomics and its competitors are about to create huge amounts of data.

Their competitors are all equally qualified to make all of these products.

The pair set a punishing rhythm that their rivals could never match.

Eluka Kibona, who works on the show in Tanzania, says the competitors have to use their own own local knowledge.

These companies will then find themselves making more payments for premature deaths relative to their competitors.

Rather than preventing monopolization and restraint of trade, as the theory goes, antitrust regulation in the new economy is a new face of the old industrial policy, allowing bureaucrats to manipulate economic outcomes and favor companies dearer to them than the consumers choice. The only beneficiaries of government officials telling Microsoft how to make computer software are Microsoft s competitors and not competition.

Fearful of competitors stealing their ideas, and still without a patent, they flew on only one more day after October 5.

It is the less efficient competitors, and not consumers, that are the most likely to benefit from punishing Intel for lowering its prices.

Frankfurt and Paris, the most plausible European competitors, languish in tenth and 26th place, respectively.

Other alternatives attempt to avoid the overhead of X by working directly with the hardware such projects include DirectFB.

It produces one of the finest airplanes in the world so good that competitors in the more advanced industrial countries have tried to impose trade barriers.

They will invest resources in training employees whom their competitors will exclude from the initial pool of recruits.

But challengers like China and India are in no position to preach.

Year after year, after year, after year, they're more innovative than all their competition.

Fortunately, a wary press corps, powerful governments, and nervous competitors watch its every move, hoping the company to fight its many temptations.

And while competitors are striving to find a way out of the difficult situation, Sony continues to focus on the consumer segment.

Symantec exited this business in the late 1990s as competitors such as Metrowerks, Microsoft, and Borland gained significant market share.

Moreover, what others think particularly, what rivals are doing may have a big effect on the results of a decision and much of what others understand and plan is private, thus inaccessible.

But if Japan starts to intervene directly in global currency markets to ensure a weaker yen, neighboring competitors will respond in kind.

Center left parties face a particularly difficult challenge, as their lower income electoral base is lured away by anti immigration, chauvinist competitors.

If their competitors deliberately overload them by posting a few thousand comments a day, they will not be able to afford the cost .

But if, say, a financial trader or a corporate executive is paid a fortune for being a shade faster than competitors, the public suspects that he or she is undeserving or, worse, a thief.

Such a high valuation can be justified if SKS provides a better service than the competition, but darker interpretations are possible.

1) Economic motives, meaning that the misinformation campaign was ordered by competitors (other banks). 2) Political motives (destabilization), meaning that the culprits would be competing political forces.

The main competitors to PE are ELF (used in Linux and most other versions of Unix) and Mach O (used in Mac OS X).

Indeed, the growth dynamic can be so strong for some successful cities that they can hollow out smaller rivals (for example, London vis à vis the cities of northern England).

Indeed, the growth dynamic can be so strong for some successful cities that they can hollow out smaller rivals (for example, London vis à vis the cities of northern England).

How do Primark and its competitors in the West s shopping malls and High Streets keep that cute frock so cheap?

Some companies have easier access to capital, whereas their competitors cannot get access to finance at reasonable interest rates.

The direct competitors, two Opel Astra H GTC driven by drivers selected from 18,000 hopefuls in a year long TV covered process, were beaten decisively.

His decision to challenge Abbas means that the secular forces within the Palestinian movement may be divided at a time when rivals with a robust Islamic agenda principally Hamas and Islamic Jihad are challenging them.

Sebagai besar pemerintah memprioritaskan kelangsungan hidup politik dan keberhasilan ekonomi jangka pendek, sehingga mereka akan berkontribusi pada aksi iklim global apabila pesaing pesaing utama mereka melakukan hal yang sama.

If a star basketball player reacts a split second faster than his competitors, no one has a problem with his earning more for every game than five factory workers do in a year.