Ralph Fonseca, Belize's minister of budget management, investment and trade, says all he wants is a contract that introduces competition and new investment into the creaky Belize telecommunications system.

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Although it has integrated the product into its Outlook.com web email service, it will continue to offer Skype as a separate installable application on its new system, avoiding the risk of anti-competition complaints.

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Imagine, too, some pretty bad news for Groupon, which faces a whole new kind of competition from the recently-launched Google Offers discount system.

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Microsoft's Distributed Systems group utilized a new file system architecture, dubbed Flat Datacenter Storage, over a full bisection bandwidth network to burn through the competition.

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The new colleges may shake things up a bit, but there is an endemic lack of competition in Australia's educational system.

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