European politicians and some competing companies have complained that Google's dominance allows it to promote its own
services at rivals» expense, and attacked it on a range of issues including its tax and privacy policies.
Not exact matches
And as if that wasn't enough, Hulu — which is owned by Walt Disney Co. (DIS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), and Comcast's (CMCSA) NBCUniversal — took another swipe
at its larger
rival on Wednesday with the announcement that it will start offering a commercial - free version of its Hulu Plus premium streaming
service, a
service that will soon include a bolstered roster of movies, thanks to the Epix deal, in addition to Hulu's wide range of original and network television programming.
At the same time, Tencent launched a U.S. -
rival to Amazon Web
Services.
Google added an unlimited data plan to its low - cost wireless
service known as Project Fi, in a move aimed
at matching the popular offers from
rivals Sprint,
AT&T and others.
At its closest
rival AT&T Inc., wireless
service revenue has been rising just over 4 per cent per year.
The company's basic idea of selling goods
at a low price with great
service has remained constant for two decades but it keeps investing in new technology and improving operations to stay ahead of
rivals.
Andreas Schwab, a German Christian Democrat lawmaker
at the European Parliament, and Spanish liberal Ramon Tremosa unveiled a draft of their resolution last week, saying separating search engines from other commercial
services would ensure a level playing field for
rivals in Europe.
The European Union has accused Google of promoting its shopping
service in Internet searches
at the expense of
rival services in a case that has dragged on since late 2010.
On Thursday, Uber announced it would be sinking $ 1 billion into its Indian markets to take on Ola, a
rival car - hailing
service in the country valued
at $ 2 billion.
Thousands of taxi drivers brought part of central London to a standstill in protest
at rival service Uber - a mobile phone app.
Zippon.in, an on - demand logistics aggregator for relocation
services, had shut shop in February as it could not raise fresh funding after a proposed deal to sell out to a larger
rival fell through
at the eleventh hour.
Many customers complained
at lack of accuracy in the data, forcing Cook to issue an apology and point users to other
services from
rivals including Nokia and Microsoft.
Not only is Grab keen to fill
at least some of the nearly 500 vacancies within the company, but it was particularly eager to avoid a migration of Uber staff moving en masse to direct
rivals like Go - Jek in the ride - hailing space or food delivery
services Deliveroo and FoodPanda.
More important to the executives
at the show will be the question of net neutrality, including whether carriers can offer consumers streaming music or video that doesn't count against monthly data limits — which could give their in - house
services or those of partners an edge over
rivals.
The IBM approach to employing AI is more accessible than
rival cloud
service providers that simply expose APIs to AI functions that are aimed primarily
at application developers.
For work -
at - home parents whose children's schools do not have bus
service, the work day may come to an end each day with a commute that
rivals anything their office counterparts endure.
Played in hot or cold temperatures, sunny days or rainy ones, the commitment to the games by the participants (or
at least their parents)
rivals that of the U.S. Postal
Service («Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat...»).
He reveals how the
Service Chief were set
at odds by the system, almost as
rivals in the making, with responsibility diffuse and authority ambiguous.
The
service at the luxury London hotel was better than
at rival establishment The Grosvenor, he suggested.
It was a soft - spoken smackdown
at the first debate between U.S. Senate hopeful Richard Blumenthal and
rival Linda McMahon tonight, as the pair faced off over the Democrat's misstatements about his military
service and the Republican's tenure running World Wrestling Entertainment.
The article notes that this year, «looking
at the U.S. market as a whole» is key to the site's success, whilst working to provide diverse dating
services that can out - perform
rival platforms.
At this stage, there are no on - demand dating
services that could
rival apps like Tinder because of its incredible growth and prevalence in the online dating world.
«
At this stage, there are no on - demand dating
services that could
rival apps like Tinder because of its incredible growth and prevalence in the online dating world,» says Edmunds of Global Dating Insights.
This week on A SEASON WITH NAVY FOOTBALL, go behind - the - scenes with Coach Ken Niumatalolo and his players
at one of America's oldest
service academies as Navy's Midshipmen host longtime SMU
rivals, the Mustangs.
Its
service intervals, meanwhile, are indicated
at every 12 months or 15,000 km — its
rivals take that distance to double or more.
Even earlier, in 2003, wholesaler Bertrams launched Edge, which offered booksellers who joined the scheme specially discounted books and marketing back - up, while a
rival wholesaler had a
service called Bookshop Connections
at the time, offering something similar.
But a closer look
at Apple's new rates and terms suggest that the company's policy isn't that different from what
rival services offer — and in some cases, Apple's terms are more favorable.
Back in the»90s, when I was working for a
rival comics company, and both Marvel and we were using a
service bureau in the East»40s to output cover and text page films for printing
at Quebecor, the bureau's staff were constantly bitching that the Marvel crew didn't know how to prepare files for print output, often failing to embed font files or sending low - rez (72 ppi) art.
Innovative new strategies like on - platform Facebook lead generation cards and the newly - opened Amazon Marketing
Services platform (which is effectively offering free brand - building impressions
at the moment) seem to be the preserve of the plucky upstart, not yet adopted properly by traditional
rivals.
With board - certified specialists and a nationally recognized faculty, the teaching hospital provides a comprehensive range of veterinary
services for your animal
at a level
rivaled only
at a university medical center.
The Federal Communications Commission fined Marriott International for blocking
rival Wi - Fi networks
at a Nashville resort in order to force guests to pay for access to the hotel's Internet
service.
Announced
at HITEC 2014, the trial
at a Sunstone Hotel property is showing how Smart Mirroring * allows for real - time guest engagement through the traveler's Android TM or Windows ® - based smartphone by providing location - based
services and delivering in - room entertainment —
rivaling what is now available in most homes.
Service quality issues have plagued a number of
rival services at terrible times.
Sony's gaming arm is moving
at least some of its online workloads from Amazon Web
Services to the
rival OpenStack cloud - computing stack implemented by Rackspace, according to a report.
After all, allowing people to use what might,
at first glance, appear to be
rival services along with YouTube might bump its traffic.
And with YouTube's continued investment in original programming and a new premium music
service, it needs to offer a feature set that's
at least on par with
rivals.
At re: Invent, Amazon Web
Services announced the preview of the latest edition to its cloud database family: Amazon Neptune, a graph database that, unlike most
rivals, lets you model graph data both ways.
Dish's Sling TV live television streaming
service is launching a preemptive strike
at the imminent $ 35 DirecTV Now by swiping a handy feature from yet another
rival.
Rival Line, which recently passed 60 million users
at a rate of 5 million new sign - ups per 3 weeks, is the dominant player in the Japanese mobile messaging space but Yahoo Japan — which itself is a joint - venture between Yahoo Inc and operator Softbank — is aiming to bring greater competition, and new monetization streams, by promoting the Korean app through its popular and visible
services.
And in February, Google announced YouTube TV, a
service to
rival cable with plans starting
at $ 35 a month and numerous channels on offer.
Both companies also offer
rival streaming music
services, while it is rumored that Apple will debut a standalone Siri device
at WWDC which could compete with the Amazon Echo.
Google launched its Google Play Music All Access
service for US - based users
at Google I / O in May as an attempt to
rival Spotify and Xbox Music.
Prime members who haven't yet tried Music Unlimited, Amazon's music
service and
rival to Spotify, can do so
at a discount ahead of Prime Day.
At launch Microsoft Teams had around 50,000 businesses using the
service, so it appears to be growing well as it attempts to
rival Slack's 6 million daily users.
Great B to B relationships among MLSs — more cooperation, more collaboration, more consolidation of
services — will be required to keep up with better funded
rivals who don't have the interests of brokers
at heart.