Throwing lots of money at brokers from rival firms is one way to do that.
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Rival firms see Refco as a high-profile opportunity to grab some of that market share.
Antitrust is institutionalized harassment, inherently anti-infrastructure since it makes large scale competitive reactions by rival firms unnecessary.
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Apple has been involved in a series of patent disputes with rival firms.
But rival firms are already trying to turn to their advantage an emerging side effect that doctors don't quite understand.
Rival firms will, after all, struggle to tempt a worker earning 80% of a full-time wage for 50% of the work.
It added that it hoped staff would be recruited by rival firms.
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And rival firms, such as Charles River Ventures, have launched programs aimed at a broader swath of entrepreneurs, reports Venture Capital Journal.
The firms are desperate to increase their advisor headcounts and are throwing money at brokers from rival firms to get them to join.
At the same time, T3 traders were hearing from friends and former colleagues at rival firms who were making money shorting the stock.
Goldman's role as dual advisor in the transaction has sparked harsh criticism from rival firms, who say the move raises a host of conflict issues.
Any broadband provider that tries to block particular sites or services, for example, will quickly lose customers to rival firms provided there are plenty of them.
One common anticompetitive practice is to give retailers and restaurateurs free fridges or soda fountains if they refuse to sell soft drinks from rival firms.
The Clayton Anti-trust Act of 1914 forbids a person to be on a board of two rival firms at once if it reduces competition between them.
His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deeply ingrained in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.
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Turmoil at the top of Morgan Stanley has energized an already strong hiring market, as recruiting firms stumble over each other to lure senior bankers and specialists to rival firms.
Bankers from rival firms have complained in recent months that Goldman's worsening public image is adding to the political momentum behind a regulatory clampdown on the whole sector.
It comes after a tough year in which user numbers steadily fell as players switched from their mainly Facebook-based games to the more smartphone-friendly apps produced by rival firms.
Fifteen of the 20 largest LBOs ever have been announced since early 2005, and huge club deals among rival firms are becoming more common despite the government's scrutiny of the practice.
Recently, professors Rafael Corredoira from the University of Maryland and Lori Rosenkopf from the Wharton School even found a beneficial effect of your employees being poached by rival firms.
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The fight for lead counsel has been getting increasingly contentious as rival firms file briefs seeking to disqualify each other or challenge settlements another firm has reached as being too small.
Add this to the fact that HSBC may have to offer big contracts to lure investment bankers from rival firms, and analysts are getting a dimmer view of the company's growth prospects.
The regulator will also possess the power to set maximum prices for interconnections, currently seen as being a severe obstacle to the emergence of rival firms in the fixed-line and wireless market.
It will unveil a new name for its retail mutual funds later this spring as part of an effort to get brokers at rival firms, such as Citigroup's Smith Barney, to sell them.
That triggered a massive movement among brokers who took major sign-on deals at rival firms just so they could make up for the losses on deferrred comp-money they were hoping to use for retirement.
One estimates that speculation represented only a quarter of recent trading volumes in distressed financial firms such as Lehman, with the bulk of activity involving rival firms desperate to protect themselves against counterparty risk.
While McCourtney sometimes seems uncomfortable with the flashier antics of rival firms in Silicon Valley, he nonetheless sounds like a member of the Valley flock when it comes to justifying the seemingly absurd valuations of Web stocks.
The European Commission has proposed two alternative remedies to address the problem of tying: one would force Microsoft to make a stripped-down version of Windows without various add-ons, and the other would require Microsoft to include rival firms' software with Windows.
In America, the lapsing of patents can be delayed automatically if drugmakers sue rival generic firms.
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