Sentences with phrase «big price war»

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A fierce ongoing price war among the Big Four is only compounding the pressure telecoms are facing.

A fierce and ongoing price war among the Big Four carriers is only compounding the pressure telecoms are facing.

This key category is the current battleground for a pricing war between Amazon and Walmart that is terrifying big - name brands.

Before branching out on his own, he was one of legendary investor Julian Robertson's first so - called tiger cubs, responsible for some big market calls during the 1990s such as the collapse of oil prices after start of the Persian Gulf War and the plunge in the British pound.

A price war has raged in U.S. supermarket aisles for well over a year, bloodying retailers big and small.

Most newsworthy in this year's edition, the 87 - year old billionaire pointed out that Berkshire Hathaway now has a $ 116 billion war chest to spend on a deal, but that prices were too high for him to spend any of it in a big way last year.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Uber is going for the jugular in the escalating Big Apple cab wars — with a substantial drop in prices that was scheduled to go into effect this morning.

Heroin is big business in Harlem, and while Lucas could continue to buy from suppliers in the city at high prices (for bad product, no less), he sees the Vietnam War as a potential for rejuvenating his affair.

Although the Lincoln Navigator has been overshadowed in the bling wars by the Cadillac Escalade lately, the refreshed 2015 Navigator does have one advantage over the big Caddy: price.

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost for WorldReader from major publishers.

When it did, the company simultaneously unleashed the biggest blast in the summer's e-reader price wars, dropping the Kindle to $ 189 for a model with both Wi - Fi and cellular connectivity, and $ 139 for a Wi - Fi - only version.

(look up and verify) Scoff if you want, but I believe the big war machine is slowly churning to catch up with the times, as evidenced by the number of traditionally published books in Bookbub and the lower ebook prices of traditional titles.

This left Amazon with a big choice to make: continue fighting the price war with Google, take the fight to Apple, or try to fight both Google and Apple?

the price war by the big two int he last year has absolutely hurt them in the US.

Way to go Big Five I want to quote from the conclusion of the article «For authors who want control over their pricing, so they can avoid become casualties in wars between retailers and publishers, the choice of publication method is clear.

The really big news is Google starting open war with Amazon by starting to sell ebooks, not to mention telling publishers they can sell ebooks for the same price as hardcover books.

And, in fact, Greenfield points out that Forrester's James McQuivey probably foresaw things a bit more accurately than the «this means war» people when the Department of Justice's legal action against five of the Big then - Six publishers resulted in a rollback of agency pricing.

Also: a quick look at $ 69 Kindle, an eBook price war launched by Amazon, Mike Shatzkin's praise of Amazon and thoughts on eBook pricing, and a big boost -LSB-...]

Barnes & Noble just unveiled its latest entry into the tablet wars, the Nook HD +, and it has a lot going for it: a big HD screen, an expanding ecosystem that now includes video and a price that can't be beat.

Let's start by stating the obvious: the ongoing price war among Canada's big three ETF providers has been a boon for index investors.

Reports from both the Globe and Mail and the Financial Post this week suggest a price war is brewing among Canada's biggest grocers.

You guys are smoking something really good if you think Xbox 1 or ps4 is going to sell more then wii u this holiday lol... mostly every big 3rd party game is coming out on current gen or wii u this holiday... ac4, batman, rayman, splinter cell, watch dogs, call of duty, etc so most people won't even be upgradeing like that yet when mostly all the same games will be out across all consoles... Nintendo got all of them games then there games zelda, pikmin, wonderfull 101, Mario, etc and there ain't no game on ps4 or x1 that's going to sell more then Mario!!!!!! That's a fact... and to top it off we know the wii u is going to get a official price cut right before x1 and ps4 launch... and you guys still think they going to sell more lol... now the next holiday of 2014 that's the real question will nintendo still have some 3rd paty games and there games to hold off the next halo or god of war etc????

Last month, big budget Lord of the Rings game Middle - earth: Shadow of War revealed it would supplement its full - fat price - tag by including loot boxes purchasable with real - world money.

I can't see Plants Vs Zombies 2 out selling Battlefront so when their next big release is on the horizon and they have a discussion on having micro-transactions or releasing a shell of a game for full price they will look at these two games and come to the conclusion that the shell of a game with micro-transactions sold millions more, so that must be what the consumers want, purposely ignorant to the brand power of Star Wars.

SBLI is a big player in the low price war for term life insurance.

That may spark a price war with Uber, but Uber is much bigger and better known, having 40,000 drivers and 3 million London users.

Sprint, the third - biggest mobile carrier in the nation, is offering the latest iPhone models through a leasing program that it is banking on to help it catch up with Verizon Wireless and AT&T and gain more customers, even as T - Mobile is aggressively waging a price war from the lower end.

Apparently, Microsoft is more interested in using a bigger Surface Pro to compete against tablets and premium notebooks, than going into a price war in the 7 - inch to 8 - inch tablet market.

Not only has Wal - Mart grabbed a big share of the food buck, but the discount giant's aggressive development strategy also has sparked a price war between traditional supermarkets.

Craig and Dara Friedson won a big bidding war in February — beating 11 other offers on another aggressively priced Ashburton house, thanks to Craig's mother, Leslie Friedson, an agent with Long & Foster Potomac / Cabin John.