"Netflix is starting to cannibalize cable-TV viewership and it could start cannibalizing advertising, too, " Pachter said.
Both Moon and board game retailers were were initially worried that digital sales would cannibalize hard-copy sales.
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Not that Google would ever want to cannibalize its billion-dollar Android business.
Both cannibalize future full-margin sales.
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And for those concerned that selling pre-owned games could cannibalize sale of new ones, I want to highlight another key benefit of the used-game business: higher profit margins.
With statin prescriptions growing only 6% a year, he says, Zetia-Zocor will have to cannibalize Zocor immediately to sell well.
One could even argue that Note-sized smartphones might eventually even cannibalize the need for tablets proper.
So while big companies like HP are "excited" about the possibility of putting small PCs in America's homes, we think they're going to have to do some serious revamping (and possibily a bit of innovating, too) before they're going to be able to cannibalize their own laptop business and convince the end-user that small and chic is de rigueur.
She and Rauch both point out that Elan is a lot more likely to benefit from Antegren sales than Biogen-Idec (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people ), which may have to cannibalize sales of its existing MS treatment Avonex to sell Antegren.
It's the speculative actions of the market that have made Zuckerberg a multiple billionaire -- and the need to satisfy that market that could cannibalize the company he founded, built, and may now be endangering.
The company founded by Bill Gates will be more than 2 years late to the red hot tablet market, which, according to reports, is beginning to cannibalize PC sales, and will be facing increased competition from later-generation products.
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Whether products like the GameStick will cannibalize the traditional console business is an interesting question: with a developed TV-app ecosystem, this kind of plug-in smart stick might conversely challenge the Smart TV business, with a dedicated gamepad as a bonus.
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Publishers balked at Amazon's strategy out of concern that low prices could cannibalize their print sales, set unrealistic expectations in the minds of consumers, and lead Amazon to demand e-book price concessions from publishers.
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