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Like all of Samsung's smartphones, the Galaxy Nexus is constructed out of plastic as opposed to the sturdier aluminum used by rivals like HTC.

However, in the last couple of years, Apple has been eclipsed in some areas by rivals like Samsung.

While Pandora might have been nudged out of attention by rivals like those, according to the firm it's still a heavyweight in the streaming industry.

Although Apple helped innovate the modern smart AI assistant with Siri, it has long since been overtaken by rivals like Google.

By sinking money and resources into a smartphone, the company had hoped to gain a significant piece of the huge smartphone market long dominated by rivals like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Samsung.

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In the process it has set the benchmark for the midsize sedan segment, one that's crowded by rivals like the Toyota Camry, Nissan Altima and Ford Fusion.

The model started life as a bit of an ugly duckling, but was notable as the first Jeep crossover — a car designed to target the lucrative market made popular by rivals like the Nissan Qashqai.

Excellent body control and accurate steering ensure the car is capable enough through corners, although it lacks the sense of fun provided by rivals like the Ford Mondeo and Mazda 6.

The move is aimed squarely at making Macy's more nimble as it looks to halt the erosion of its business by rivals like Amazon.com (amzn) TJX Cos's (tjx) T.J. Maxx, and Ulta Beauty (ulta).

That's pretty small potatoes compared to the much larger deals done by rivals like Microsoft's (msft) $ 26 billion merger with LinkedIn, not to mention the $ 109 billion AT&T (t) is paying for Time Warner (twx).

Not exact matches

Strong demand for the toy maker's Hot Wheels and Barbie products helped sales, but like its rivals, Mattel was impacted by the closing of toy retailer Toys R Us.

Meanwhile, Netflix (along with other big streaming players) is very protective of its viewership data, which the streaming service claims is made irrelevant by the fact that Netflix does not rely on ad sales like its traditional TV rivals.

That's the argument by KGI Securities analyst Ming - Chi Kuo, who told investors in a research note on Monday that the iPhone X's facial - scanning feature, Face ID, puts it one - and - a-half to two - and - a-half years ahead of rival technology in Android - based alternatives like Samsung's Galaxy S8.

LiveJournal was an early - mover in the blog category, built a small but indefensible moat based on users, and was eventually overtaken by better - funded, better - architected rivals like Blogger and WordPress.

Though lenders don't like getting publicly bashed by customers — a major reason that some of its rivals don't provide ratings — they tolerate LendingTree's ratings because they need its leads.

Those qualities have only been set off by posher rivals like Starbucks.

Like their rivals globally, Australia's traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix Inc (nflx).

Last year, it ranked last in an annual ranking of fast food restaurants by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, only one of many surveys to find McDonald's severely lagging up - and - coming rivals like In - and - Out Burger in the western U.S. among many others.

The TopTix deal is significant because it will allow SeatGeek to better compete with legacy rivals like Ticketmaster and StubHub by expanding its open distribution model into new markets.

The company emerged from the 2009 financial crisis more easily than most of its peers, helped by stronger digital firepower and the weakness of lower - end rivals like J.C. Penney (jcp) and Sears.

Cathay will add around 4 percent annual capacity with the launch of new routes from its Hong Kong hub to destinations like Brussels, Dublin, Washington D.C. and Cape Town that are not flown by rivals, the CEO added.

Like its larger mobile rival, AT&T (t), Verizon lately seems to be at least partially following the successful playbook for gaining customers crafted by T - Mobile CEO John Legere and his team.

The fund, which in London is led by Singer's son Gordon, manages $ 35 billion in assets, dwarfing European rivals, like TCI Fund Management, with $ 17.5 billion, and Cevian Capital, with assets of more than 13 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion).

Honda has already spelled out plans to market a vehicle which can drive itself on highways by 2020, and the new target for city - capable self - driving cars puts its progress slightly behind rivals like BMW.

Like its domestic rival GM, Ford has invested in autonomous technologies it intends to have a fully autonomous model in commercial operation by 2021 but has taken a more incremental approach compared to relative upstarts like Tesla MotLike its domestic rival GM, Ford has invested in autonomous technologies it intends to have a fully autonomous model in commercial operation by 2021 but has taken a more incremental approach compared to relative upstarts like Tesla Motlike Tesla Motors.

A few years later, after its transition from DVDs - by - mail to streaming was better established, it had a stronger foundation to build the original content that put it on an equal footing with rivals, like Time Warner's HBO, in luring customers and to build pricing power for a more profitable future.

But as Coach reined in its prestige - sapping ubiquity, hired a hot fashion designer in Stuart Vevers and ramped up the caliber of its bags, as exemplified by its pricey but coveted Rogue line, it has been able to command ever higher prices, and more crucially, set itself apart from rivals like Michael Kors (kors) and Kate Spade (kate).

Vudu has sought to distinguish itself from its rivals by bragging about its large catalog of high - definition movies, its simple user interface and its integration of other Internet services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Pandora.

Uber, a five - year - old company that operates in more than 310 cities and 58 countries worldwide, faces homegrown Chinese rivals like Didi Kuaidi, which has more than 90 percent of the market and is backed by two of the largest Chinese Internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent.

Thanks to a newly - released fan mod by Daku Neko for the PC version of Sonic Generations, players can now take control of Mario and have him run at never - before - seen speeds, just like his rival Sonic.

This Act prohibited price discrimination by retailers among producers and by producers among retailers.63 Its aim was to prevent conglomerates and large companies from using their buyer power to extract crippling discounts from smaller entities, and to keep large manufacturers and retailers from teaming up against rivals.64 Like laws banning predatory pricing, the prohibition against price discrimination effectively curbed the power of size.

In what looks like an attempt to help guard against a legal patent assault by its large tech rivals, Google is spending $ 12.5 billion to buy mobile handset maker Motorola Mobility.

Its 70 % gross profit margin ranks it (by that metric) No. 4 out of the 30 components in the Dow, and blows away rivals like Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and 3M (NYSE: MMM).

By picking a price at the top end of the assumed range, Alibaba surpassed big American companies like the Walt Disney Co. and Boeing Co., leaving behind as well e-commerce rivals such as eBay and Amazon.

In the UK, the likes of Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley, and Alliance and Leicester have all been taken over by rivals or the UK Government, while the UK's largest mortgage lender, HBOS, is about to be gobbled up by Lloyds TSB, which itself has seen better days.

Like popular movements of the past, Trumpism was made possible by a political climate in which — as Lasch put it over forty years ago — our «parties no longer represent the opinions and interests of ordinary people,» while the «political process is dominated by rival elites committed to irreconcilable ideologies.»

She is delicate (like a barracuda) in her maneuvers around the third main character in Leaf's drama, a graduate student who is writing her dissertation about the moment in 1973 when Margolies lost an election for the presidency of a national feminist association to a rival supported by Feinberg.

Much like boxing was elevated through the Ali - Frazier head - to - head and the golden age of the NBA was defined by the Chicago Bulls squaring off against arch rivals the New York Knicks, hip - hop thrives when artists butt heads creatively.

Rossing accuses the rapture's supporters of a kind of «sickness,» a Caligula - like lust for war that rivals anything promoted by the imperial cult of Rome.

While gourmet private chef - prepared meals, maximized privacy and security, uber - tailored guest service and 5 - star accommodations and amenities are chief reasons the trend toward private villa lodging is exploding, an elite few like Casa Dos Cisnes have offerings far beyond that don't just rival, but far exceed, those offered by high - end resorts — including those elite Penthouse suites.

And that feeling of pure and utter joy was rivaled only by the excitement we felt when we learned that the coffee whizzes of Portland, Oregon's Stumptown Coffee would be teaching us how to pull espresso on that Linea Mini like the pros.

For instance, if you win a game over a bitter rival by more than 40 points, like in a 70 - 21 win over Oregon?

i hate those who mention cesc in their comment, who is him by the way, is he a god, can someone tell me where will he play in our starting11 or who should we bench so that he can play by the way why bothering mentioning someone who plays for chelsea.we did nt need him and he did nt need us and mou said that, if he realy respect us as you faithful fab fans think then why he has not said anything about that until now.for me arsene was right about that and fab was the one who was wrong for choosing chelsea while he knows that mou will mock us and the manager that he said he respected so much.he is just like other judas who play for our rivals and i will not make a plea if he will be bood at the emirates.

I am surprised more pranks like this haven't taken place in football, expect Man City fans to launch a similar surprise on their local rivals by all supporters texting their United fan friends by all texting at the exact same time to tell them that Ronaldo has been sold and then ruining all believability it all by suggesting he has signed for the Eastlands oufit!

Lame she may have been as she jogged to the post, but when the gates sprung open away she flew, not a trace of lameness now, as she drew away easily to win by six lengths leaving a parade of 27 beaten rivals strung up the track like weary stragglers at the end of a marathon.

The north London giants have been hurt in the past by losing star players to their Premier League rivals, with the likes of Samir Nasri and Emmanuel Adebayor among those to leave them for City in the past, while Robin van Persie also recently made the controversial move to Manchester United.

The Scot suggested that Arsenal are being left behind by the likes of his former team, Chelsea, the Manchester clubs and our north London rivals Tottenham, so perhaps Wenger should use this to make sure the Gunners go to Watford and prove Dalglish wrong by going back above Liverpool on Saturday evening.

Now that we can see light at the end of the tunnel, I am calling all Arsenal fans to change tact while criticizing our coveted club, manager and players by substituting «satanic words» of «F» and «S» characters into words that can add value into the club's vein and steel, write more articles that can encourage Arsenal players rather than kill their morale, unite and dissolve abuses coming from rival club fans and club enemies like Jose Mourinho.

Yes we went trophiless for the longest, been at all UCL since 18 years ago and yet to lift the trophy once, we got humiliated by teams that were «supposed» to be our rivals; but look, we are on the rise, asides the naivety we showed at home to Monaco, i bet scumbags like you wont have the fuel in you to slate this team for how weve performed this season.