Sentences with phrase «platform is in competition»

You aren't only in competition with other books in your genres — your author platform is in competition with the author platforms other writers are developing.

Not exact matches

«We will examine whether platforms are exercising market power in commercial dealings to the detriment of consumers, media content creators and advertisers,» Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chairman Rod Sims said in a statement.

Still, there's plenty of competition in the race to offer the fastest and most efficient machine learning platform.

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Velloso says eSports has been a major focus for his team because that gaming community already uses the platform to communicate in real time as they watch livestreams of tournaments and competitions.

The most popular platforms for online advertising, like Google AdWords, are quickly ratcheting up in cost while offering more competition in the form of other advertisers.

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

Investor protection and regulation, competition in the form of cheaper robo - advisory platforms and the move towards passive investments mean that the days of 80bp to 100bp returns on assets are long gone — 60bp is the new norm.

This is in sharp contrast to the trading of equities where a plethora of online retail equity trading platforms and heavy competition between discount brokers has dramatically lowered costs for retail investors and execution is (if anything) better for retail investors.

There's zero competition with Alibaba, unlike in the U.S., where online retailers may directly butt heads with the brands selling on their platforms.

As the cost of creating binary options trading platforms decreases, there will be an increased proliferation of platforms, and a corresponding competition elasticity in binary options trading and other traditional trading activities.

Choudary said it was often not enough to nurture local competition because «the problem with platforms, a lot of platforms have global network effects, global domination, which is that they are uniformly visible across the world and having all users in one platform is much more useful than having a local platform.»

BITMIN is a company that offers investors a platform with a lower entry barrier to mining, which is becoming more important due to the fact that the competition in Bitcoin mining has increased, and will continue to do so.

Along with the platform BTN and IBWSS UK show, BTN also organizes USA Trade Tasting in New York City, IBWSS show in San Francisco, ABID Conference in New York, London Wine Competition, London Spirits Competition, London Beer Competition and owns a magazine called BevRoute which is focused on the import and distribution business.

Wenger is considering sending Bielik out on loan for the second - half of the season, and that should give him the platform to showcase his true ability in the first - team, something that looks near impossible for him to do amidst the competition in North - London.

The aerodynamic platforms will complement engine manufacturer competition that returned to the IndyCar Series in 2012 following a six - year period in which Honda was the sole supplier.

It took on its present form in the mid-19th century, but it wasn't until the St. Louis Olympics of 1904 that the circular platform was officially introduced in international competition.

«The Birmingham Diamond League will be my first big European track race of 2016 and a great platform to test myself on the road to the Olympic Games in Rio — the ultimate competition for every athlete,» said Farah, who is yet to confirm the distance he will be racing in Birmingham.

Here's a number that won't shock anyone who's been buying Facebook Ads consistently for the past year or two: Facebook's cost - per - click jumped 22 % in the second quarter of 2011, after a 40 % rise in the previous quarter, increases that ad platform Efficient Frontier attributes to heightened competition for ad space.

French fashion darling Clemence Poesy, who plays Fleur Delacour in the films, is the only fellow Harry Potter star who gave Watson some red carpet competition in a ruffled Nina Ricci chiffon dress and platform wedges by the same designer.

Every one of today's modern dating apps is in constant competition with other platforms, in an effort to try make its services the most unique and appealing to potential users.

There is much more competition, and when Tinder was young it was one of the only app - based dating platforms in the space.

As the first dedicated platform in Asia to address the enormous potential of the IoT revolution, the first edition of IoT Asia in 2014 was ahead of its competition.

It is also a well known fact that the increasing competition in the interracial dating industry has made it tougher for people to choose a dating platform that caters to their needs.

While some games have had a tendency to sell better on Nintendo's handheld than other platforms, likely due in part to less competition from the smaller overall game library, Team Meat was still surprised by the numbers it saw.

It's an impressive feature debut for French filmmaker Xavier Legrand (an Oscar nominee in the short film category), who duly won the Venice jury's Silver Lion for best director, and who stands a shot at winning another prize in Toronto's Platform competition.

At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories was one of two features in the main competition produced by the online streaming platform Netflix (the other being Bong Joon - ho's Okja).

Contrary to the nearly ironclad custom that sees competition entries filtering through to French cinema screens in the months following the festival (with each one, no matter how lukewarm its critical reception may have been, invariably touted by its promotional campaign as «la sensation de Cannes»), Netflix supremo Ted Sarandos brazenly declared his company's impatience with the requisite three years for his productions to make their plodding way from theatrical distribution, to DVD, premium cable and even free - to - air television before being allowed to air on the platform that had funded them in the first place.

It's after organisers banned the streaming platform's films from competition for its refusal to release them in cinemas.

This platform can be used for tutoring, as supplemental writing support within a class setting, and in a public writing competition format.

In some countries, governments and not - for - profits are offering young people videos, competitions, interactive tools and serious games via digital and / or traditional platforms.

Khan believes his learning platform is just the starting point for new approaches that take full advantage of the physical learning environment: «I've always believed that the virtual is not in competition with the physical — that they can complement each other.

2018 Lincoln MKT: Sharing a platform with the Ford Flex, the 2018 Lincoln MKT is a luxury crossover wagon that has little in the way of direct competition in the luxury marketplace.

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«When we made the decision to return to Porsche as our primary marque for competition in 2016, it was built firmly on the ability to create a vertically integrated platform that could cater to customers and drivers of all ages and skill levels,» Sofronas said.

Probably the stiffest competition the Avalon Hybrid has is from its platform - mate, the more upscale Lexus ES 300h; in fact, the Avalon Hybrid Limited costs about $ 1,200 more than the base ES 300h.

Yes, the VH platform it's built on is long in the tooth, but, thanks to its exterior design, interior, and powerful engine, it can still hold its own against competition.

Barnes & Noble also reaffirmed that its share of the digital market — which the company claims is 20 % — now exceeds its share of the retail book market, although new players like Borders and the forthcoming Copia platform will heighten competition in the space.

There is lots of competition on the cloud platform that lets you import RSS and ebooks into a singular platform and store all of your notes, highlights, and annotations in the cloud.

In a move that industry watchers are already calling a direct competition to Amazon's purchase of book discovery platform Goodreads, TechCrunch has reported through an anonymous tip that Apple has bought Boise, Idaho - based BookLamp, creators of the Book Genome Project discovery site.

She was a winner in the Irish Writers» Centre Lonely Voice Platform, short - listed for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and long - listed twice for RTE Guide / Penguin short story competition.

The system resembles a more competition - focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much commerce driven, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free publishing platform for entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdsourcing with its crowdfunding book publishing experiments.

You're right that more access means more competition, and at least in the non-fiction space the clearest way to stand out is through developing a powerful author platform.

Dell's failure with the Streak series also underscores the major issue that such manufacturers face when attempting to enter the marketplace with such a heavily commoditized platform such as Android without having a proper contingency plan in place, as the competition from other manufacturers left it scrambling to catch up while never really being able to grab a foothold in the marketplace; this was also evidenced by its awkward handling of its attempt to compete in the smartphone market again in the Venue series, with one Android model and one Windows Phone model.

Actually, multiple platforms for e-books are a sign of health (assuming competition is good in that it keeps prices down and choices up) and of growth (as in growing pains due to rapid, unexpected expansion.)

She's the author of 31 books including Author YOU: Creating Your Book and Author Platform that has won multiple «best» in the writing / publishing categories in book award competitions.

It is the second time in recent months Amazon has launched a literary competition in the UK, in a bid to boost interest in its KDP platform.

She's the author of 31 books including Author YOU: Creating Your Book and Author Platform that has won four multiple «best» in the writing / publishing categories in book award competitions in 2013.

But it needs to continue to offer up distinguishing features that are both useful and marketable to maintain the allure of its platform in the face of such intense competition from Amazon, which seems to introduce some new Kindle initiative or feature every few weeks.

We have implemented some of these in Books4Spain (exclusively online and specialising in books about Spain)-- both on the website and on our blog, for example: independent «expert» reviews author interviews and links to them and author blog from book result page on our website ability to but non DRM ebooks and Kindle books direct Win books competitions Lots of added value content on blog Our favourites, special offers, recommended books, popular books and featured authors on website All this via a software platform which we have developed in - house and re Hildick - Smith warning that entering digital book retail is very, very expensive — that is not necessarily the case since we intend to license our software platform on a white label ASP basis to other independents (retailers and publishers) at a very reasonable price.