Competitors: Agents, lawyers.
In that time, it not only raided competitors for agents and talent in the movie and television businesses, but began representing athletes and added dozens of marketers and licensing operatives who are supposed to keep pace with the likes of Coca-Cola, Delta, eBay and, until lately, Hasbro.
This includes the atmosphere and emotions associated with a big sporting event, the appearance of "big name" stars and athletes from other sports, and pressure from direct competitors, media, agents, sponsors, coaches, family, and friends.
A few travel agents, competitor to Prime Travels, intentionally responded with bad recommendations.
In presenting itself as a savior to struggling travel agents, some competitors said, Orbitz might partly be engaged in a ploy to divide and conquer the opposition.
It's easy to see the appeal of donation plans to the middlemen: With commissions squeezed by on-line outfits and other low-cost competitors, brokers and insurance agents are casting about for new products to sell.
In addition, we tested the following: cytoplasm of living Escherichia coli using in cell NMR (Serber et al., 2005); E. coli high speed lysate (Tetenbaum-Novatt et al., 2012); and buffer alone, the latter lacking crowding agents or competitors and being the milieu in which these proteins have been most studied previously (Frey et al., 2006; Lim et al., 2006; Ader et al., 2010; Yamada et al., 2010).
The social element comes into play at Mobee because the company wants to stand out from competitors like Field Agent, GigWalk, EasyShift and others by offering users an experience which is "more fun," more social, and more like gaming, Shah explains.
Katcher sees perfidy everywhere: two-faced purchasing agents, fake beluga, competitors who bribe buyers or — worse — milk him for information and then try to take his customers.
