Whether HTC opts to defend its market share by aggressive price cutting is now the big question.
Some retailers are finding that deep price cutting may have a perverse effect, according to Mr Silverstein.
Rebating and price cutting are actually the same from the viewpoint that they are both price reductions or price discounts.
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Though many companies have announced plans to introduce such devices, Vizio's entry could accelerate price cutting that would squeeze profit margins.
Even before it had time to implement its price cutting strategy, its rivals launched a pre-emptive series of price promotions of their own.
Historically, antitrust enforcers tried to shield competitors from market-dominant companies that could crush them through price cutting, intimidation of suppliers, or other dubious tactics.
Simple price cutting is a reduction offered to any willing buyer.
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Now with the Blu-Ray capable PS3 set to come out this November, rival Microsoft may be musing on whether to do some price cutting of its own.
The biggest selling home PC supplier in the U.S. last year, Packard Bell is said to be facing cash-flow problems as a result of too aggressive price cutting.
Hasbro was involved in much more drastic price cutting in the holiday season though, especially in Toys R Us stores, Sterne Agee analyst Marget Whitfield said in a note to investors.
This will result in a nasty bout of price-cutting, middle-man slaying and industry reputation tarnishing.
He wanted power plants and a wholesale trading operation to protect his investment from price-cutting regulators.
The most costly plants would be closed, inept managers pushed aside, price-cutting stopped, and so on.
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With unsold inventory piling up throughout the technology industry, price-cutting looks likely to spread.
In both the wired and wireless businesses Tronchetti has to contend with price-cutting mandates by regulators.
Cursed with slender profit margins and price-cutting competition from Wal-Mart, supermarkets have been anything but super for years.
At the very least, the reports will likely lead to heavy price-cutting that will cut into earnings going forward.
Sony has gone the price-cutting route with its latest offering, the PlayStation Vita.
In an industry already gripped by price-cutting and slumping demand, the proposed marriage increasingly looks like an act of desperation.
Yet the real fear is that today's furious price-cutting is not so much real liberalisation as the start of a stitch-up.
Antitrust regulators worry especially about the effects on competition and innovation when it is a maverick, like the price-cutting TNT, that is being eliminated.
The result was a capacity glut, ferocious competition and frantic price-cutting.
Some elite schools--Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford--are pretty circumspect about price-cutting.
Price-cutting competition in telecoms will come more from new providers such as call-back services, which allow callers in Japan to take advantage of cheaper rates elsewhere.
Airline seats are a perishable commodity an empty seat becomes a worthless asset once the plane takes off and this fact of aviation life has sometimes led to ruinous price-cutting.
But oversupply is not the only reason for the price-cutting.
With the insurance business suffering through one of its periodic price-cutting crusades, revenue also fell 31%, representing the first such drop for the Stamford, Conn. firm in two years.
But HP, a company synonymous with the birth of Silicon Valley, and Compaq Computer, a Houston-based firm which once pioneered PC price-cutting, may yet have to restructure their deal or abandon it entirely.
What is particularly important to him is that the music industry has made it clear to him that it values HMV - as an alternative to price-cutting online retailers and supermarkets that offer very limited choice.
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