The European antitrust commissioner Wednesday said that GE's proposed $2.06 billion acquisition of Instrumentarium poses competitive problems.
In 1690 Spanish authorities, concerned that France posed competitive threat, constructed several missions in East Texas.
"At the same time it permits the broad range of settlements that pose few competitive concerns".
It sold Editis to a firm that, though pledging to spend €300m to become the "biggest French publisher," in reality is unlikely to pose much competitive threat.
He is seeking to negotiate alliances with Peronists who pose a competitive threat to the Kirchners, said E. Federico Thomsen, an economist who runs a consulting firm in Buenos Aires.
China, he said, was looking at all this with one eye open and the WTO is now telling them they have to look at it with both eyes.In the case of films, foreign offerings certainly do pose a competitive challenge to home-grown Chinese products.
But now, thanks to what is called voice-over-Internet, phone alternatives are flourishing, sharply lowering costs and expanding opportunities for business and consumers in some of the poorest places on earth -- even as they pose a competitive threat to government-sanctioned telephone companies.
"We are really caught in the middle here," one senior administration official said on Friday, explaining why the White House had refused to endorse a plan that would aid some of the most struggling nations, including Senegal, Nicaragua, Congo, Kenya, Honduras and Nigeria, which pose little competitive threat to American firms.
The takeover would greatly accelerate the expansion of Telus and pose a competitive challenge to two other big Canadian telecommunications providers, the Bell Mobility division of Bell Canada of Montreal, the country's largest telecommunications organization, and Rogers AT&T Canada, a unit of Rogers Communications Inc. of Toronto.
Instagram continues to grow, and continues to pose a competitive threat against Twitter's video service.
