Such an approach, if it works, may be the best defence against commoditisation and the erosion of margins by competitors like the big search engines.Still, there may also be other motives behind this week's move.
As the competitive pressure increases major IT companies will likely see a slowdown in growth and an erosion of margins.
The latter type, with barriers-to-entry not as high, often attract competition leading to price pressure and erosion of margins.
Major brewers were suffering "a severe squeeze on liquidity", he said, because of erosion of profit margins through the price code.
As the internet injects competition and price transparency, dominant firms will suffer an erosion of profit margins, forcing them to look to new technologies to restore their fortunes.
In the long-distance market, profits have boomed as technology has cut the true cost of such calls to little more than that of a local call but prices have eased only slightly.A second problem is that the erosion of fat margins often means job cuts in what is usually one of the biggest white-collar employers in the country concerned.
Geomorphic change was generally driven by erosion of channel margins in confined reaches and by a combination of deposition and erosion in unconfined reaches.
"We expect its profits to decline in perpetuity as it will continue to lose market share to online retailers, downloading, and the supermarkets, leading to further erosion of gross margins," one analyst was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.
<40? Ma: tectonic erosion of the frontal margin has been documented during the Neogene and possibly as soon as the Middle Eocene (Lallemand 1995).
In addition, it is concluded that the CDPP is applicable to safety assessment of BDBAs in nuclear power plants without significant erosion of the safety margin.
