Apple managed to persuade consumers to pay for downloads and grew a huge business which it dominated, with an estimated 70% market share.
But while Yahoo has suffered, Google has powered ahead in the online search market - which it comprehensively dominates with a global share estimated at 75% - and made moves into the wider online advertising market.
The backbone of the California table grape industry for more than a century, the grape today is relegated mostly to raisins (where it still dominates, with almost 90% of the acreage).
Even more important will be the challenge to Google's lucrative business in search-related ads, a market which it dominates even more with a share of over 70% in America.Earlier this month, Google announced that it is developing a free operating system for personal computers called Chrome OS, thus mounting a direct attack on Microsoft and Windows.
Acquiring Sun would also extend IBM's footprint in the Unix-based server market, a slice of the industry it dominates but shares with the smaller company.
Yet, only Amazon currently has the scale to see such a plan become an industry standard, where it dominates ebook sales with an estimated 65percentt market share.
Alibaba invented China's biggest shopping day — 11/11 aka Single's Day — and it dominates the headlines with record sales year-on-year, but another company just stepped out to remind us that others are busy trying to close the gap.
One key area it dominates is university textbooks, with its Nook Study offering.
Inside, the switches are just where you expect them to be, the driving position comfortable and the gear stick a lovely and light tool for a precise change, while on the motorway it's economical, smooth and quiet as it dominates the outside lane with ease.
Effective spring drought avoidance by eastern larch partially explains why it dominates eastern Siberian forests with their cold, dry continental winter climate (Berg and Chapin 1994).
