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Finally, Holthausen notes, a site will be more valuable if it uses a proprietary technology than if it simply offers services competitors can easily duplicate.
In the ongoing war between Uber, Lyft, and all of the other me-too ride-sharing services, competitors are looking for any way they can better utilize their supply of drivers and reduce costs for their riders.
Today, there is extra urgency behind the need for a shift toward innovation: many new financial services competitors that are small, nimble and on the cutting edge of technology entered the market right after the financial crisis, when established firms were busy licking their wounds.
Though FedEx recently stopped providing notary services, competitors such as UPS and Postal Annex continue to employ notaries at most locations on weekdays.
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But he added: "It is still of note that our traditional policy ally, the US, has steered clear of announcing its own 'supertax' and our nearest European financial services competitor, Frankfurt, is benefitting from Merkel tax cuts".
If HP were to buy Accenture after gobbling up EDS, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company "would be able to take on [IBM Global Services] or any other IT services competitor in any deal," Hanson says.
Cloudkick has added the ability for users to migrate their Amazon Machine Images (the template for servers on EC2) on their EC2 servers to another service provider, like Slicehost (which is owned by Amazon Web Services competitor Rackspace).
"I can speak the dogs' language in a way that they can't," she said, referring to her wire-service competitors.
Full-service competitors have retaliated not by changing their own fare structures, but by cutting prices on flights to Phoenix and Las Vegas, America West's two hubs.
Axtel, which competes with Telmex on the local level, contends that Alestra and Avantel are not taking into account the impact that lower interconnection fees can have on Telmex's local-service competitors.
And as the economic slowdown became apparent over the summer and full-service competitors like British Airways began laying off workers, Ryanair and other discount carriers continued to report growth.
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