Along the shores of the countries I visited, competition is particularly fierce.
The more legitimate side of industrial spying involves gathering competitive intelligence: for example, store or competitor checkers (including secret/mystery shoppers) might visit their competition to check out the layout, prices, styles, even the caliber of staff, etc., that their competitor has; in this last case, the spied-on store is very likely doing it back to its competition!
For more information on the MIT ACCELERATE Contest, the 28 semi-finalists, and this year's MIT $100K, visit the competition website.
Visit theguardian.com/silverstone-competition for details.
Visit the competition page on the ReadingZone site for further tips, guidelines and entry details.
To find out more about how to enter, visit the competition page.
In the coming weeks, she added, she and her staff would not only be analyzing sales data, but also visiting the competition "trying to figure out what we missed".
It resulted in a huge police and military presence, with checkpoints and magnetometers at the entrance of almost any place an Olympic athlete, official or spectator might visit, including competition sites, downtown hotels, even public plazas for nightly entertainment.
For more information, visit the competition's Web site.
KICK-OFF: Tuesday, 8.00pm STATS… Hull haven't won at Selhurst Park in their last 10 visits in all competitions, dating back to an old Division Two fixture in October 1985.
West Brom have not beaten Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in any of their past 17 visits in all competitions, since winning 1-0 in the League Cup in November 1983.
