But not every industry can be monopolized (or at least, they can't be monopolized fast enough; even SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son admitted recently that he is getting tired of losing money).
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Of course, he monopolized the conversation and totally excluded me.
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Instead, as America's Catholic team, it monopolized Catholic football players nationally.
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For the next five, six years, I monopolized the red carpet.
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Or is the record industry too monopolized for that to happen?
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That opportunity is either narrowed or completely lost in a monopolized market.
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Apple's iPhone monopolized the talk about smartphone design for nearly a decade.
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Under Gallardo's leadership, the Guadalajara Cartel monopolized almost all of Mexico's drug trafficking.
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"The very aesthetic of seriousness has been monopolized by Default Man," he writes.
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A few years back, for example, Amazon essentially monopolized the market for e-books.
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There's zero doubt that a single candidate monopolized the whole disheartening pageant of 2016.
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The new fast-growing technology space of personal computers would be a monopolized industry.
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That's part of why the case monopolized the national dialogue in the mid-'90s.
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Athletes have monopolized the message since Paris kicked off its new bid in 20123.
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For one thing, it's often hard to recognize how monopolized the economy has become.
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Evansky sat atop the heap, the lone woman in a field monopolized by men.
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That's part of why the case monopolized the national dialogue in the mid-'21990s.
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It did not rule on whether or not Apple had monopolized the market for apps.
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It's unbelievably hard for a smaller company...to elbow in to such a monopolized industry.
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Monopolized industries capture profits by cornering markets, without needing to share those profits with workers.
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Composers in the classical tradition have effectively monopolized the prize since its inception, in 26403.
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In May, Luckin sued the Seattle-based company, claiming it had unfairly monopolized the market.
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It's clear the company is barnstorming E3 this year, and Fallout 76 has monopolized that conversation.
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For too long, that lane was monopolized by white women on Girls, or Two Broke Girls.
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We're hurtling toward an increasingly monopolized future, where the only challenges come from other preexisting monopolies.
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Those retro soundtracks monopolized the top four spots, with a Hamilton Mix Tape hitting number six.
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Before that, the Catholic Churches monopolized knowledge, with their handwritten Latin manuscripts locked up in monasteries.
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The suggestion that one group has monopolized historical truth demonstrates the intrinsic failure to understand it.
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The museum as we know is a settler-institution that has monopolized the definition of art.
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Unfortunately, serving or recently retired Pentagon generals monopolized the conversation, so a conventional outcome was assured.
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The five-piece group, formed in 2016, fearlessly command stages that are usually monopolized by men.
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If you look at Colorado or Texas, some counties have competitive markets and others have monopolized ones.
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The circulating currency of the United States has been monopolized by the U.S. Government since the 1860s.
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The rest of the top five is monopolized by Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Oppo, Lenovo and Vivo.
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The Lenovo Smart Clock, meanwhile, is aimed firmly at the market currently monopolized by the Echo Spot.
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There was unusual dissent from loyalists in a Republican Party that Trump has thoroughly changed and monopolized.
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These revolutions center around disrupting the central bank monopolized monetary system, on which all modern economies rely.
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Sanders had monopolized the support of the party's left wing, and Biden its moderate wing and establishment.
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Conversation is monopolized by coronavirus, and in the absence of clear rules, companies and organizations behave randomly.
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Of course, because it's so comfortable, it also runs the risk of being monopolized by unintended users.
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The parties accuse Mr. Ghani's government of keeping power monopolized by a small circle at the palace.
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It would be odd, Farnes argues, if such a fundamental property as mass has monopolized positive charges.
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Liberalized trade has amplified economic growth, but the spoils have been largely monopolized by wealthy and corporate interests.
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China has monopolized the production of these 17 minerals, which are in a dizzying array of military hardware.
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"He monopolized all of the things that are fun to play with," the chief justice said of Tom.
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"Unfortunately, serving or recently retired Pentagon generals monopolized the conversation, so a conventional outcome was assured," Prince writes.
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For five years, Tesla's Model S has monopolized the luxury electric sedan market, but that dominance is now besieged.
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But as a viewer your attention is monopolized; there's nowhere else to look, and you can't skip a page.
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But has any company before ever monopolized this much of humanity's time and attention, en masse, around the world?
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Health economists have warned that hospital and physician mergers have monopolized local markets and driven up health care spending.
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It's no secret that Silicon Valley has monopolized our time: The average adult spends 24 hours per week online.
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But he also cracked down on dissent, jailed his opponents, seized private businesses and homes, and monopolized the media.
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Paper currency became monopolized by the Federal Reserve in the form of government notes in the early 22019th century.
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A wave of nausea, accompanied by electric shocks of pain that were synchronized with my pulse, monopolized my consciousness.
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Many people can roll their eyes, but adolescent girls have practically monopolized the ocular gesture as a form of communication.
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But since then, Bitcoin's hashing algorithm has been monopolized by specialized, powerful mining chips called ASICs and large mining firms.
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I was a bit surprised how much of the storage space was monopolized by the trio of out-facing pockets.
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"I think an easy explanation for that discrepancy would be that repair is monopolized, the sale is competitive," he said.
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This latest study further supports our case that repair and maintenance is being unfairly monopolized through abuses of copyright law.
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That is, until fashion came around and monopolized the social media app as a destination for #OOTDs, #shoefies, and #evachenposes.
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The Saudi monarchy monopolized political and military action; the Wahhabi clerics took charge of the religious, legal and social spheres.
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The independent press has all but been eliminated, and electronic media are monopolized, with news and debates replaced by propaganda.
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At the National Infusion Center Association, we are concerned monopolized health care will take away affordable options from vulnerable patients.
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What's fucked up, and yet so deeply Facebook, is that it simultaneously monopolized the main means of taking shelter from it. ●
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A series of unprofitable startups have been launched in markets that, thus far, haven't shown that they can be monopolized profitably.
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Take a Number Since the 1163th century, European and American discoveries have monopolized the naming of elements on the periodic table.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, Open Markets Institute 'Apple created the iPhone, Apple created the entity that can use apps, has it monopolized anything?'
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From magazine covers to Snapchat, it seems there isn't a medium of communication (save the telegraph) that Kim's nudity hasn't monopolized.
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Rather than a decentralized, democratic public square, the internet has given us a surveillance state monopolized by a few big players.
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First Amendment rights are monopolized by a tiny number of big money players from New York, San Francisco—and Saudi Arabia.
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Odebrecht has monopolized some construction projects, and some of its projects are of questionable public value, perform poorly, or are overpriced.
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As diverting as the Federer-Nadal revival was in 2017, the Big Five have monopolized the final Sunday spotlight long enough.
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Mr. Trump has been silent about fatal police shootings of unarmed civilians — which until recently had monopolized conversations about criminal justice.
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This actually has nothing to do w China and entirely how industrialized food production monopolized public consciousness about food in America.
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Before the federal agencies came to eastern Oregon, large ranching operations from California had monopolized hundreds of thousands of acres of rangeland.
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They allege that Cupertino, California-based Apple has monopolized the sale of apps like messaging programs and games, leading to inflated prices.
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And Sunday, after the Trump-Khan feud had all but monopolized the weekend news cycle, Ryan was forced to repeat the drill.
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AI — the key enabling technology for commercializing this data — is available to everyone and monopolized by no single or group of companies.
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Ontario, which has the largest market to serve, is going with a government-monopolized storefront model, controlled by the province's liquor board.
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The spread of the type of precision technology that the United States once effectively monopolized accounts for much of the reason why.
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If the WWE has effectively monopolized the popular idea of what wrestling is, Austin Theory is the direct product of that monoculture.
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If the market becomes monopolized, or if a few pharmaceutical companies control critical patents, lots of people could be priced out of access.
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Her stepson, Donald Trump, Jr., has monopolized headlines after news of his meeting with a Russian lawyer stirred up more West Wing drama.
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Although women had been smoking weed as a natural painkiller in childbirth for hundreds of years, men had monopolized the culture around it.
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The aforementioned Google Alert has been handily monopolized by the Swift programming language since I set it up a year or so ago.
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Healthcare must be decentralized and de-monopolized, extricated from the suffocating control of the federal government and its rent-seeking special interest masters.
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Moore has a larger fundraising account to draw on, raising $1.4 million during the primary even as Strange monopolized the Republican fundraising landscape.
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No longer monopolized by artists and eccentrics, creativity is increasingly recognized as a vital tool for success and well-being in any field.
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It is Beijing's latest move in its ongoing reform of the oil and gas sector to keep it from being monopolized by state companies.
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There's also the Open Markets Institute, a think tank founded last year that is targeting major monopolized industries with detailed studies and policy proposals.
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The government would then license competing companies to produce generic versions of the medicines, at a fraction of the cost of the monopolized price.
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"For a long time, the international rights process and conversation has been monopolized by Western governments," the People's Daily said in a Saturday editorial.
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"Language about service and veterans is more or less monopolized by Republicans," Ian Boudreau, an Army veteran who identifies as a socialist, told me.
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Communist regimes used propaganda and monopolized information as a weapon to control historical narratives and thus the social and political realities of their citizens.
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Another convict testified to seeing De Lima in the cell of an inmate who monopolized drugs deals in one of the country's largest prisons.
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In almost any other administration, on almost any other day, the imminent announcement of a Supreme Court nominee would have utterly monopolized the news.
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He wants to de-schedule the drug as a controlled substance, expunge criminal records, and work to prevent the emerging industry from becoming monopolized.
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As the United Fruit Company (which later became Chiquita) monopolized the industry and expanded throughout Latin America, one variety took over: the Gros Michel.
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From February 5, when it was introduced, to July 22, when it was finally pronounced dead, the court-packing plan monopolized the Senate's attention.
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India's remaining Muslims protected themselves by forging an alliance with the Congress Party—Gandhi and Nehru's group, which monopolized national politics for fifty years.
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Republican candidates have also stayed mostly mum on issues like internet subsidies for the poor and a monopolized cable industry driving up internet prices.
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But while the President's tweets monopolized media coverage over the weekend, lawmakers have plenty of other work, including important action on health care and defense.
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With gilded Gucci (and a gilded CeeLo) and custom Peter Dundas, you'd think our fashion commentary last night would be totally monopolized by the Grammys.
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India, which has long monopolized fuel supplies to Nepal, was widely blamed for preventing fuel tankers from crossing the border, leading to crippling fuel shortages.
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Could money in the form of deposits, such as money in the form of paper currency, be monopolized by the central bank, given current technology?
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Consumers allege the tech company illegally monopolized the distribution of iPhone apps and charged app developers high commissions that ultimately inflated the prices for consumers.
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"I think the wedding industry has monopolized into a business," said Priscilla Figueroa, a 1943-year-old Florida resident who got married earlier this year.
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The algorithm that governs how Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash "miners" create new digital coins for a reward has been monopolized by specialized (and expensive) hardware.
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A combination of foreign DVDs, USB drives and defector-run radio stations are all slowly chipping away at the propaganda that Pyongyang monopolized for so long.
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Investigators said the militia monopolized the distribution of cooking gas in the hardscrabble city of Itaboraí and extorted firms transporting workers to an unfinished petrochemical complex.
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And it would not be monopolized by AT&T, which was kept out of the computing industry by a 1956 consent decree that lasted until 1984.
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The PRI monopolized presidential power in Mexico from 1929 to 2000, and its first electoral defeat is viewed by many as the birth of Mexican democracy.
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"There is some concern that GM seeds can be monopolized by multinationals, which may then exploit farmers," the commission said in its report to the government.
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Instead of focusing on all the wild scores out of the 1980s we've been treated to, we had our collective basketball weekend monopolized by unsavory stuff.
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They also argue that these companies have monopolized political and cultural discourse as well by having such tremendous influence over the way information is accessed online.
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And still more nominees, like Justice Clarence Thomas, fought their way to the court in confirmation battles that monopolized the nation's attention and fueled partisan rancor.
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A declaration of musical independence for a new generation, "Beethoven" was initially aimed at Mr. Berry's younger sister, who monopolized the family piano practicing classical music.
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Warren was generally stable across the age spectrum but weakest with the youngest voters, though that may be largely because Sanders monopolized so many of them.
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As a result, the Orthodox denomination has stepped into the void and monopolized religious life to the detriment of other denominations such as Conservative or Reform.
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He soon called Raider, a friend who had already co-founded Warby Parker, the eyeglasses company that upended an industry virtually monopolized by Italian firm Luxottica.
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So that's why OpenAI was created as a nonprofit foundation, to ensure that AI power ... or to reduce the probability that AI power would be monopolized.
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From his historical perspective, Wu can see that often a moment such as this one, in which our eyeballs are so thoroughly monopolized, is followed by resistance.
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" Arturo Galansino, the director of Palazzo Strozzi, says that his mission is to bring "contemporary art to everyone, really everyone, in a city monopolized by Renaissance art.
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But, with American acquiescence, the legislature was monopolized by a small group of élite landowners, bolstering the power of an oligarchy that continues to dominate political life.
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Investigators said the militia monopolized the distribution of cooking gas in the hardscrabble city of Itaboraí and even extorted companies transporting workers to Petrobras' uncompleted Comperj refinery.
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The plaintiffs argue that Apple illegally monopolized the distribution of iPhone apps and that the commissions it charged to app developers inflate the prices consumers' pay for apps.
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For one, the backhaul connectivity that feed these wireless networks are all monopolized by just a handful of companies (traditionally Verizon, CenturyLink, or AT&T), keeping prices high.
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The debate in Washington over the American Health Care Act to repeal and replace Obamacare, changing the degree of health coverage guaranteed to Americans, has monopolized our attention.
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This argument ignores the oversight board's power to institute growth reforms, including the potential to cut government headcount and privatize services currently monopolized by under-performing public agencies.
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That's why many people don't really have much choice about which company they pay for internet access — that access has been monopolized by a handful of powerful companies.
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At its peak, France Télécom monopolized the country's communication services with support from the government, but the company struggled to adapt as mobile devices took over the market.
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"Ann, for some reason, monopolized Lapham for two courses, leaving me and Trump both stranded, so he leaned over them and started bombarding me with interest," she writes.
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So the problem with monopolized industries is that they produce too little, and with their lower production levels, they ultimately have less need to hire labor and capital.
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The answer is ObamaCare's regulatory architecture, which has monopolized the insurance market, eliminated affordable plans, forced healthy individuals to look elsewhere, and doubled premiums between 2013 and 2017.
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The plaintiffs said Apple has monopolized the sale of apps like messaging programs and games, leading to inflated prices compared to if apps were available from other sources.
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Big health care has monopolized local healthcare delivery and drug prices, leading to a healthcare system that costs more per person than any other country in the world.
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When nothing big happens at the deadline, it is a sign that there will be no significant challenge to teams that have dominated opponents and monopolized attention all season.
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He has already established press and internet freedom as signature concerns, a potentially disruptive change in a one-party state that has monopolized the media for nearly 58 years.
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People complained that the artists were being monopolized, but when Wella and Pet tried to fulfill their requests, those drawings would just result in portraits of a Band member.
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"We think that the names for 'Kimono' are the asset shared with all humanity who love Kimono and its culture therefore they should not be monopolized," Kadokawa's letter said.
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"The word is politicized and monopolized by an Islamic idea," Father Cervellera said, adding that the military was carrying out ethnic cleansing of all the minorities in the region.
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Amazon and Google may have monopolized the smart assistant speaker market, but you don't have to settle for their audio quality to reap the benefits of Alexa or Google Assistant.
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If we look inside these blocks, we can see that they're monopolized by transactions to one particular contract address, which was created by the owner of the jackpot-winning address.
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The law dates to 2008, when China had a reputation for sweatshops staffed by underpaid workers, an embarrassment for a ruling party that monopolized power in the name of socialism.
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"We think that the names for 'Kimono' are the asset shared with all humanity who love Kimono and its culture therefore they should not be monopolized," wrote Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa.
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Ms. Lankesh's death, which monopolized television news coverage on Wednesday, set off protests across India, a country increasingly polarized by supporters of the Hindu nationalist governing party and its detractors.
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Divorce bills, freedom of movement and border checks have monopolized headlines but what leaving the EU means to perhaps the greatest issue of our lives, climate change, has barely featured.
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A sizable minority of voters in the French-speaking province have always wanted to create their own country, and that issue monopolized the political debate in the 1980s and 1990s.
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TRL was almost exclusively monopolized by pop videos from Mickey Mouse Club grads and nu-metal bands, so getting a rap video on the countdown was a very big deal.
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If Zuckerberg manages to focus the conversation on how Facebook screwed up and how it can be fixed rather than how it has monopolized the internet, nothing is going to change.
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More briefly, I'd break it down like this: This isn't a perfect solution, especially for people who don't receive subsidies and therefore aren't protected from premium increases in a monopolized market.
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After that, Judge Lucy Koh — the California district judge who presided over Apple and Samsung's massive patent infringement trial — will have to decide whether Qualcomm unfairly monopolized the baseband processor market.
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Confirmation isn't an entirely even-handed history of the Senate hearing that stalled Thomas' confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court and monopolized political and social discourse in the summer of 1991.
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The ultimate result of this reform has been hundreds of follow-on designations by executive agencies under E.O. 13224, which never could have happened if the White House monopolized this responsibility.
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The charges come with Telstra expecting annual earnings and margins to drop, as a government-owned fiber network, which it must pay to use, replaces a copper system it had monopolized.
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These aren't criminals; they're average farmers who are frustrated with and increasingly economically destroyed by the fact that Deere and other big agriculture companies have monopolized the repair of their tractors.
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In Beijing, taxi firms have been accused by critics of sitting on top of a monopolized industry, with the local government tightly controlling the amount of licenses handed out to them.
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According to the researchers, this shows how the value of what Facebook has essentially monopolized—connecting to friends and family, for example—outweighs even dire privacy concerns, at least for now.
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Why it matters: The efforts comes as publishers look to bolster their subscription efforts, since their traditional revenue stream — digital advertising — has become monopolized by tech giants, mainly Google and Facebook.
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She monopolized the German Player of the Year Award from 2001 to 2008, a period in which the German national team became the only team to win consecutive World Cup championships.
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At the heart of the Taiwan dispute is the so-called 1992 Consensus, an unwritten agreement between Beijing and the Kuomintang government that monopolized political power in Taiwan at that time.
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Rasmusen said he's hopeful the pandemic forges a broader conversation on the perils of U.S. broadband being a monopolized commodity, instead of an essential utility with its roots in local communities.
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The level of danger posed by Russia -- and Russia's ability to strategically destroy the foundations of our democracy -- monopolized the hearing because it should be monopolizing our policy focus and response.
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Ms. Tsai's weakened position offers an opportunity for the opposition Kuomintang — the party that once ruled China and later monopolized political power in Taiwan — as well as China's ruling Communist Party.
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Television sets at the time were designed to receive about a dozen Very High Frequency (VHF) channels by default, and many of those channels were monopolized by the three main broadcast networks.
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The key question for reporters: What things that actually matter are being neglected as our attention is monopolized by visits to the White House by Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Kid Rock?
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"Disney and Pixar must recognize that women and underrepresented minorities are just as capable, talented, complex, and dimensional as the white fraternity of men who have monopolized animation thus far," she wrote.
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But it would not be monopolized by IBM, which had kept control of the computing industry since the 1950s, because IBM's corporate structure was now skittish about the raw use of power.
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"Electricity was the biggest problem but we achieved such a highly advanced, cutting-edge technology ourselves from scratch, which was once monopolized by developed nations," the film's narrator said, referring to the inverters.
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The consumer plaintiffs claim Apple monopolized the market in violation of federal antitrust law by requiring that apps be sold through its App Store and extracting an excessive 30 percent commission on purchases.
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Still, Mr. Trump's message, tone and policy ideas have drawn followers who are more passionate than Republican nominees typically enjoy, and he has monopolized the political conversation and news coverage of the race.
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Culottes and midis have monopolized the bottoms market over the past few years, and as much as we love these flowy, longline trends, it's impossible to deny that hemlines are rising once again.
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The popular media, monopolized by a corrupt Mexican oligarch, is spreading fake news, whipping up popular frenzy and confusing a population that has scant access to the internet and alternative sources of information.
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But only one person, a high school teacher named John Reardon, asked Warren about a subject that has riveted Washington and monopolized cable television for weeks: the potential impeachment of President Donald Trump.
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It is hardly a secret that American telecommunications markets are monopolized by a very few large corporations, and that the current F.C.C. chairman, Ajit Pai, worked for one of those large firms, Verizon.
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Outside groups helped pour more than $50 million into the district—a record for a House race—and essentially monopolized televisions, smart phones and telephone lines for both sides in that part of Georgia.
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But laissez-faire is no longer the best option to foster innovation: data is monopolized by giants that have become systemic, users' freedom of choice is limited by vertical integration and lack of interoperability.
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It had three major concerns, namely that Gazprom prohibited the free trade of gas, that its gas prices in monopolized markets were too high and that Gazprom exploited its pipeline monopolies to dominate markets.
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He laments the way that the Christian right has monopolized the "evangelical" label, betraying "a far larger evangelicalism, both here and around the world, which is not politically aligned," Mr. Keller wrote in 2017.
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This is why LULAC is calling for a New Deal on Internet equality that puts the interests of consumers and would be consumers before the interests of those who have traditionally monopolized Internet conversations.
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Consider the extreme racial polarization in the city at the time: White people virtually monopolized political power, and the police force was about 90 percent white in a city with a substantial black population.
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"Americans are in no danger of seeing their news and information monopolized, least of all by newspapers," wrote the Heritage Foundation's James Gattuso in 2008, arguing to liberalize the broadcast-newspaper cross-ownership rule.
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New York (CNN Business)Walmart has monopolized the grocery business across the United States and should be forced to sell off some of its stores, an advocacy group charged in a scathing report released Thursday.
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Supporters of Cruz -- just like supporters of John Kasich and Jeb Bush, or Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for that matter -- are still stunned by how Trump has monopolized media coverage over the past year.
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Supporters of these measures, meanwhile, say their dangers are being exaggerated and that the legislation simply gives small players a way to reclaim the value of their work in an ecosystem monopolized by Silicon Valley.
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In addition to the Banda Massacre, it wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
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"I pretty much monopolized her evening," said Mr. Uprichard, who treated her to a Kir Royale, a Champagne drink with crème de cassis, even after finding out it was a jaw-dropping $40 a glass.
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They scored bigger hits with their debut, Pharmacy (2015), which will probably go on to sell more than The Aviary; by now the Chainsmokers have monopolized the market for this particular brand of triumphalist maximalism.
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The Founding Fathers designed our system this way in the Constitution for a very important reason: liberty is elusive in a large land with a diverse population if government power is centralized and monopolized in Washington.
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Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar Land Rover, and BMW have all launched models or shared plans to take their part of a market that Tesla created with the 2015 launch of the Model X and has since monopolized.
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The blocks also benefit the domestic telecoms sector, which is monopolized by state-controlled firms, as residents are forced to pay high prices for phone calls instead of making them for free via an internet connection.
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As an indie filmmaker, Houston runs her two-person company on tight margins and competes in an internet porn market monopolized by a few key players who control major studios and the most popular viewing platforms.
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"These kiosks are often monopolized by individuals creating personal spaces for themselves, engaging in activities that include playing loud explicit music, consuming drugs and alcohol, and the viewing of pornography," he said in a letter to LinkNYC.
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Perhaps, but in a crowded world of fast fashion online shopping, where brands like the U.K.'s ASOS and J.Crew have monopolized the market, it's going to be challenging for Amazon to gain some of those consumers.
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This is a sensitive subject because several of the powerful permanent members of the Security Council have long monopolized some of the most influential posts; the humanitarian relief chief, for instance, has been a Briton for years.
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Margrethe Vestager, the European Union's top antitrust regulator, said last week that the use of data could provide many benefits, "but not if that data is monopolized by a few companies, and used to drive out competition."
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp said on Monday that it had agreed to pay $206802 million to resolve claims that it monopolized the market for in-store promotions at more than 50,000 retail stores across the United States.
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And they miss its continuing power: Trump may not, yet, have figured out how to be president — but he has monopolized our attention, dominated the narrative and the story, and it would be mistake to dismiss that power.
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Comcast, the Seventh Circuit in Chicago is now deciding whether Comcast, which both operates and competes in the clearinghouse for TV advertisements in Chicago and Detroit, illegally monopolized this clearinghouse when it blocked Viamedia, an ad management company.
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Global Soccer LONDON — With all due respect for Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, who have monopolized FIFA's player of the year award for the past eight years, they were upstaged for a glorious moment in Zurich this time around.
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I hope that women will push for a more robust discussion of domestic violence, human trafficking, reproductive health care, equal pay and women's rights worldwide, issues that never received the attention they deserved when we men monopolized the stage.
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He said the trade war between Washington and Beijing provided an additional impetus for the company to achieve its goal of creating "a real Western allied super major" -- an alternative supply chain to the current one monopolized by China.
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European chipmakers monopolized the top of the European blue chip index on Monday in response to the Huawei news, with STMicro and ASMI adding more than 3.83% while AMS and Infineon also climbed more than 4% by mid-afternoon.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Kenya's Conseslus Kipruto stormed to an Olympic record breaking victory in the men's 3,000 meters steeplechase on Wednesday, ensuring the East African nation maintained its iron grip on an event it has monopolized since 04.000.
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" When he became North Korea's top leader in April 2012, Mr. Kim said that his "first, second and third" priorities were to strengthen the military, and he declared that superiority in military technology was "no longer monopolized by imperialists.
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When [I am] in the White House, [I] will reinvigorate the FTC and appoint an Attorney General who will aggressively investigate and break up these tech giants and other conglomerates that have monopolized nearly every sector of our economy.
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Remember: The reason companies are racing to develop the technology and corner the market is not necessarily because there's anything in it for you—they're just hoping to cash in on the enormously lucrative transactions industry that's currently monopolized by others.
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A refresher: Blunt skyrocketed to fame after his 2005 hit "You're Beautiful" monopolized Top 40 stations across the country, until we heard his quivering voice so many times that swallowing bees seemed a more enjoyable option than listening to it again.
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This is a skimpy oversimplification of how Sarnoff and RCA monopolized the consumer hardware and content businesses, as well as industrial, government, military (air, land and sea) and aerospace communications components and products, for an enormous chunk of the 20th century.
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The New York Times published a report Tuesday outlining necessary changes to its reporting structure, staff and production process to increase their subscription base as print revenues decline and traditional digital ad dollars are increasingly monopolized by Google and Facebook.
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Proponents of treating Facebook and other tech giants like Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft like monopolies argue that these companies haven't only monopolized competition in the tech sector, but have favored their own goods and services when presenting information to viewers.
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Given their ages - Messi is 31 and Ronaldo 33 - this could be the last the world sees of the pair, who have monopolized the world player of the year award for the last 10 years, on the biggest stage of all.
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The honorific had described Edge's membership from the start, some 40 years ago, when a small group of technologists set out to reclaim the mantle of "intellectual" from the literary types who they believed had monopolized it throughout the 1970s.
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"The End of Eddy" and "History of Violence" do — and part of what they say is: Look beyond the white, Western, male, middle-class concerns that have monopolized the conversation, and into difficult confrontations with the rest of the world.
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The senator from Vermont has been the most outspoken of the presidential candidates about the need for increased competition in the telecom marketplace, and stopping further consolidation of a monopolized industry that limits choices for consumers and drives up internet prices.
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All of those feelings are valid, and they illustrate why the onus should never have been on individual consumers to walk away from a platform that has monopolized so much of their internet infrastructure while giving them so little in return.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - iPhone app purchasers may sue Apple Inc over allegations that the company monopolized the market for iPhone apps by not allowing users to purchase them outside the App Store, leading to higher prices, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
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The six blocks between the winning key purchase and when blocks become monopolized also contain transactions to that contract, but it wasn't until block 6191903 that the winner really managed to stodge the blockchain with their own transactions for a brief window.
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Convinced by their own solutions and backed by foreign expertise and international consensus, foreign donors have run high-profile advocacy campaigns and monopolized the attention of bureaucrats, party leaders and the version of civil society that Pakistan has developed in response to them.
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As frightened Americans run face-first into the problems with America's monopolized telecom sector, it's likely to highlight the benefits of community owned and operated broadband networks—as well as the 19 state laws big telecom has lobbied for that hamstring such efforts.
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And whether we look at the history of grandfathered newspaper-broadcast combinations in bigger cities like Chicago or smaller ones like Scranton, Pa., experience does not show that the residents in those communities have been harmed or their news marketplaces have been monopolized.
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Harris's only shining moment, I guess, during the debate was when she monopolized an important debate on the stage about big tech and whether it should be broken up in the stupid direction of whether Trump should be banned from Twitter or not.
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Officials said he viewed mining as a "win-win" that could boost that country's economy, generate jobs for Americans and give the United States a valuable new beachhead in the market for rare-earth minerals, which has been all but monopolized by China.
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We acknowledge the limitations that exist with the Net neutrality rules of today, the barrier of a persistent digital divide that still looms over the most disenfranchised of our communities, and the barrier of an Internet ecosystem monopolized by non-diverse content providers.
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Send us your scoops, tips and hot NBA trade rumors SUPREME COURT TO HEAR APPLE APPEAL: The Supreme Court said Monday that it would hear Apple's appeal in a class action lawsuit that alleges the iPhone maker has monopolized the app market.
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Mr. Dempsey was supposed to pick up the keys to the campaign's fifth office in the state on Tuesday, but the rally by Mr. Sanders, by far the campaign's best organizing tool, monopolized the attention of him and the 12 other people on staff.
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Schiff's comments suggest that House GOP leaders — after five days when the Flynn story has monopolized the news cycle, agonized the White House and put intense pressure on congressional Republicans — are ceding some ground in their defense of President Trump's former national security czar.
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But the musketeer-faced Alaphilippe brought fresh panache to a race which had for years been monopolized by Team Sky — now still thriving as Team Ineos — and with his cavalier approach won the hearts of millions of fans on the road and TV viewers.
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"This coup would be a most crucial step for Erdogan to replace Turkey's parliamentary democracy, which he has twice declared 'de facto over,' with an absolutist presidential system in which the legislative, executive and judiciary powers are virtually monopolized by the president himself," they added.
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"These kiosks are often monopolized by individuals creating personal spaces for themselves, engaging in activities that include playing loud explicit music, consuming drugs and alcohol, and the viewing of pornography," Mr. Johnson wrote in a letter last month to officials of the city and LinkNYC.
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Cilic's victory there provided a brief interruption to the Big Four processional that has characterized this era as Djokovic, Federer, Rafael Nadal and Murray have monopolized the major titles for years — with considerable help lately from Stan Wawrinka, who, like Murray, has won three.
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Big was hired to drive for the whole family, but his time is quickly monopolized by Mary, who asks him to take her to political populist movement meetings, then to drive her and her boyfriend Jan (Nick Robinson) to parties or a late-night hangout.
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This time, the humiliation came in the driving rain of South Wales and at the hands of Swansea City: facing a team at the bottom of the Premier League table, Arsenal dominated the game, monopolized possession and then went and lost anyway, 3-1.
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"If you look at meat processing, if you look at media, if you look at plagiarism detection software, if you look at baby formula, if you look at pacemakers, everywhere you look you see markets that have been rolled up and monopolized," Ms. Miller said.
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By my early teens, I was venturing into the town square to soak up the debates, often monopolized by upper-caste complaints about how the Congress leaders were "coddling" Muslims and Dalits, reserving government jobs and privileges for them, threatening the Hindu way of life.
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WeWork's roller coaster over the last two weeks has monopolized headlines, and now the story of the office coworking company and its high-flying CEO will be subjects of an upcoming book by Wall Street Journal reporters Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, they tell Axios.
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Which means that the Lil Nas X controversy boils down to a conversation about who is entitled to lay public claim to Southern tropes that country music believes it has monopolized (but in truth, has been less and less reliant on in recent years).
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But rather than Nutella itself, most of the display real estate of the Nutella Cafe is monopolized by merchandise: red t-shirts boldly emblazoned with the word "Nutella," Nutella Cafe-branded commuter mugs, Nutella Cafe-branded Moleskine notebooks, Nutella travel pillows, and Nutella-branded flash drives.
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While this level of evangelical support could be sufficient to propel Mr. Trump to the Republican nomination, the real story of his rise among evangelical voters is not that he has monopolized them (he hasn't), but rather how he has brought divisions among them into public view.
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He looked emotional on the podium after being presented with the yellow jersey that Team Sky monopolized for all but two days of the three-week race, first with Geraint Thomas then with Froome who held off his rivals with the help of his team mates.
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Yigit shares the dreams and aspirations of many creatives his age—frustrated by what he felt were formulaic trends in a monopolized electronic pop scene, he recently launched the project as a way to discover new avenues of creation and establish connections with like-minded artists over the internet.
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The subject has lit up polls, monopolized advertising budgets and driven a national strategy for Democrats, who are defending 10 Senate seats in states Mr. Trump won and are relying heavily on health care as a defining issue in key states including Arizona, Florida, West Virginia and Nevada.
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The Busch Pole Award was Harvick's third at Richmond, his second of the season and the 27th of his career, setting up a showdown with the Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske cars that have monopolized Victory Lane in the first eight Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series events of the season.
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"We will be refocusing our efforts on lobbying Congress for action against monopolized tech giants, exploring options to file a formal complaint with the FTC, and building a new decentralized internet that prevents gatekeepers like Google from ever being in a position of centralized power again," the blog post reads.
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The RFS was passed by a bipartisan Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush more than a decade ago, provides an avenue for domestic biofuels producers to gain access to the U.S. transportation fuels market, which has been monopolized by the petroleum industry for more than a century.
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Still, Democrats remained largely quiet as Republicans monopolized the two hours bashing Democrats' procedures resolution and oversight investigation, with some sources indicating that this was a way to speed up the markup so that members could leave town for the weekend ahead of the third Democratic debate in Houston, Texas.
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Some of this may provide a welcome limit on the time monopolized by corporate gadflies such as John Chevedden, James McRitchie and William Steiner, who were responsible for a staggering 70 percent of shareholder proposals sponsored by individuals among Fortune 250 companies in 2014, according to a study by the Manhattan Institute.
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Past outbreaks provide hints (NBC News) FDA approves a generic version of the drug Martin Shkreli monopolized (Stat) State by state Washington state health officials are preparing for possible coronavirus spread (KUOW) Colorado forges ahead on a new model for health care while nation waits (Kaiser Health News) View the discussion thread.
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The lengthy profile from The New Yorker, published on Friday, details the nature of the president's longest-serving senior aide, who has monopolized White House's immigration policy efforts and has become the architect behind some of Trump's most controversial actions, including the "zero tolerance" policy that separated migrant children from their parents.
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Founded in 22016 by Doug Evans, former CEO of New York juice company Organic Avenue, Juicero coupled a bizarre set of interests: a curdled, monopolized tech industry which has run dry on useful new ideas; the medically-vague but burgeoning wellness industry's promise to fill a physical and spiritual void, stripped away at least in part by tech itself.
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During that time, the subject of the German civilian victims of World War II and the millions of internal refugees created by flight and expulsion was monopolized by the right-wing fringe of West German politics, stoking dreams of reclaimed territories and propping up false equivalences with the immense suffering wrought on others by Hitler's war.
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While the religious right has monopolized the public's understanding of what it means to be a "religious voter" by investing in political and media organizations such as the Christian Broadcasting Network and Values Voter Summit, its efforts dwarf what exists on the religious left in size, funding, media attention, and political embrace — and all the opportunities that could bring for LGBTQ acceptance.
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Since Prachanda had played a key role in the political awakening of Nepal's historically marginalized communities, he carried a unique personal burden to deliver to them an inclusive constitution, a reconciliation between the upper-caste peoples of the hills, who have always monopolized state power, and the peoples of the southern plains, treated as a fifth column because of their cultural ties to India.
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Even after Benintendi, a Red Sox outfielder, hit two three-run homers in a 10-5 Boston victory at Yankee Stadium, it seemed premature to inject him into the conversation about the American League Rookie of the Year Award — a discussion that has been monopolized by the Yankees' Aaron Judge, for whom that remote section of seats beyond the right-field fence has been rechristened.
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In the mid-1980s, he also took over the Chicago franchise of the fledgling United States Football League, which was trying to move from a spring schedule to a fall schedule to compete directly against the N.F.L. Mr. Einhorn was unable to negotiate a satisfactory television contract, and the league filed an antitrust suit against the N.F.L., claiming it had monopolized the fall schedule of the major networks, unfairly thwarting competition.
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Hardy says they had the luxury of being able to choose their seed investors, after getting a warmer reception for Capture than they'd perhaps expected — thinking it might be tough to raise funding for a new social app given how that very crowded space has also been monopolized by a handful of major platforms… (hi Facebook, hey Snap!) But they also believe they've identified overlooked territory — where they can offer something fresh to help people interact with others in real-time.
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