After the race was postponed, Bertarelli could not resist a dig at his rival, noting that Ellison was not among the crew on USA-17.
In its earnings announcement in mid-July, I.B.M., another Hewlett-Packard rival, noted that it had observed a pause in corporate buying at the end of the second quarter, but the company stressed that it regarded the pause as temporary.
Microsoft is making it easier for Mac users to ditch Evernote in favor of OneNote, its rival note-taking app, and a part of the Microsoft Office suite.
The review named Ashanti as Beyoncé's "mirror-image rival," noting that while Ashanti's album exceeded expectations, Beyonce's album could not live up to the hype.
But rivals note that they also have the potential to turn off voters, especially women, who want to see a more positive vision from a candidate.
And Dr. Dean has accused the president of under-financing domestic security, yet during his tenure as governor, his rivals note, the state's biggest terrorist target, the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, was criticized for its own poor security.
Rivals noted that even at that rate he would be far behind Mr. Romney, given that he starts from close to zero in campaign terms.
Though advertisers and rivals noted that her interviews with Ms. Palin did not budge the "CBS Evening News" out of third place in the nightly news ratings — the program's standing, it should also be noted, for nearly two decades before her arrival — the segments helped her reassert her role as an anchor.
In a new ad campaign, Apple pokes fun at unnamed rivals, noting that, until now, Intel's chips have been "confined" in dull boxes.
In a recent earnings-related document, HTC championed this type of "proprietary content" as a skill that set it apart from rivals, noting that companies that add "no differentiation" to Android "show less capability".
Rival traders note that Enron -- like many other energy merchants -- relied on mark-to-market accounting, which allows companies to book immediate profits on long-term deals, based on assumptions about prices in the future.
