Customers don't want to deal with dozens of niche players to patch their systems together.
Telephone and internet-based providers, as alternatives to branch- based providers, remain niche players only.
At least 30 group-buying sites will survive, and they will range from mass market offerings, to niche players.
Pearltrees, through two years in the desk bound web browser, have all the techies and niche players they need.
Because the competition is so intense and the buyer so selective, that the wise niche players are the ones who thrive.
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But don't expect them to lose their appetites for regional carriers, those small niche players in need of a serious collective cash infusion.
The big products solve the most common problems but 80 percent of the processes and 67 percent of the revenue go to niche players.
"I think eventually we will see no more than five major global players with lots of smaller niche players around the world, " he says.
International brands like Motorola and Nokia are niche players in Japan.
But as you can experience it every day, we still have the same three dominant players (Facebook, Twitter, Google) and a dense ecosystem of niche players.
Among automakers, Jones points out that Toyota and Honda are globally competitive, a few more-domestic niche players like Suzuki are likely survivors, and the rest are question marks.
Its comprehensive list ranks 160 such companies, ranging from well-known Groupon competitors like LivingSocial.com and BuyWithMe.com to more recent entrants and niche players like GaggleOfChicks.com and Mamapedia.com.
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On the other hand, it will likely show that listeners are tuning in to more stations than they say they are and could give a lift to smaller, niche players.
Most industry watchers agreed that big umbrella sites like MySpace and Facebook have lost some sizzle to smaller niche players, which can offer advertisers more precisely targeted audiences because the sites cater to specific interests.
Foreign banks have long targeted China as a key market for future growth, but they are still niche players, accounting for less than 2% of the banking sector's total assets, according to the KPMG report.
It is already ten times bigger than its next biggest direct competitor, and it doubled its stock of images last year, from 10, 000 to 20, 000, partly by buying smaller niche players or licensing their products.
Seeing few other domestic opportunities on which to place bets with the cash they had accumulated during flush years, military contractors poured into the cyberwarfare field, building operations centers, purchasing niche players, and competing aggressively for contracts.
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Meanwhile, its biggest competitors, which include networking behemoth Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and other niche players like Brocade Communications and Riverbed Technology, are trying to force their way into the niche that F5 has created in the market.
Among tech companies, different strategies are emerging as some companies decide to be specialized niche players while a very small number of other tech vendors choose to play at one or more levels of the 3-tier cloud stack: applications (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS).
The tiny company may be a niche vehicle, with the big players such as Nissan, Chevy (the Volt), Honda and Toyota dominating the market.
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Is it going to attract a niche, or is it something that players of all skill types will use?
But tablets may find a niche, he believes, as portable video players and magazine racks.
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There can be as many five different well-funded players battling it out for the same small niche.
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And over time, other niche social media communities will evolve and likely erode the big players.
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Fantasy football was played offline for years until the advent of the Internet rocket-launched it in the late 1990s from a niche hobby to a multimillion-dollar industry reaching 30 million online players last year in the United States and Canada.
As well, as new players begin participating in the community they can see opportunities to create new products or enter new niche markets, sometimes with partners where greater mutual accountability and mutual benefit is now possible because of social tools.
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This is primarily due to competition from niche brands and increased health awareness among consumers that has favored the diet or low-calorie brands of competing players.
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