In each case an industry leader was seeking to acquire a firm in a weak competitive position, fighting for survival.
The battle for domination will be won not just through sleek technical innovation but by companies who consider seriously the human perspective in their designs.Matt Jones Hamilton New ZealandSIR – If your outlook is right, then Microsoft's weak competitive position in handsets would be rectified through the acquisition of Motorola.
We find that store brands are in a weak competitive position compared to national brands independent of category and retail chain brand assortment strategy.
Investors should remain wary of "highly leveraged entities or businesses in weak competitive positions," Buffett wrote, but fear over the long-term prosperity of sound companies "makes no sense".
Joseph A. Corbo Jr., the president of the association, wrote in a local trade magazine, Casino Connection, that without the exemption, "we could find ourselves in a much weaker competitive position in the very near future".
"The pressure for more applications isn't offset by an equal pressure for less," he says, "and no college wants to consciously put itself in a weaker competitive position".
And unlike disruptive linear businesses, which typically attack from a weaker competitive position, platforms can do it from a position of competitive strength.
A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade, regardless of its mechanical skill.
In a carefully worded reprimand, Mr. Loeb outlined what he called "chronically weak operating margins and deteriorating competitive position relative to Christie's," Sotheby's main rival, and said he was not persuaded by management's explanation for why Sotheby's market share was lower than Christie's.
Synopsys, which designs software used by Motorola, Intel and others to make semiconductor chips, is "the only technology company we found that has real 'pull' demand," Mr. Jackson said, explaining that its software is so important to customers that they must buy it to keep their competitive position, even in a weak economy.
But its laggardly growth rate (the weakest in the euro zone) and its terrible competitive position relative to Germany make raising the money needed to refinance its obligations extremely difficult.
