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India is a highly competitive market with some of the lowest rates in the world, and penetration of all market sectors is growing. This sector is considered to be the closest to achieving 'perfect competition' in an economy. This article expresses doubts about the opportunities for mobile virtual network operators in such a market.

Carrefour Indonesia is in hot water with the Business Competition Supervisory Commission. Carrefour has been accused of causing unfair business competition by purchasing over 50% of market shares in the modern market. In this case, monopoly is not rewarded, but rather punished.

The recent controversy over Tiger Wood's alleged infidelity has had devastating effect on his brand image, and in turn on his financial status. Although not directly discussing economics, this article is an example of how important non-price competition is. Branding and advertising is extremely important to Tiger Wood's - if we think of him as a company - because his image is what sets him apart from other sportsman. Now that image has been discredited, and the financial repercussions are enormous.

This article gives an example of non-price competition in which Google and Apple using any tools they can to get an upper hand on the other.

This article talks about how Apple uses advertising and promotions to encourage consumers to purchase Mac products. Rather than competing with price, Apple promotes its products by incorporating new software, like the Intel Core i5 processor. This way, Apple competes with higher level software, rather than with a more competitive price.

This article relates to the great competitivity which is undoubtedly present in the Canadian music market, "with 11 times the music businesses expected for its size."

This article is about a pending deal to stop "banana" wars. This is a dispute over the policy enacted in 1993 to give preferential treatment to bananas from former British colonies, and to put tariffs on other bananas. This distorted the market and created barriers to entry and exit. It also meant that firms in former colonies were making supernormal profit in the European banana market. This deal will put an end to this policy and make move the market for bananas closer to one of pure competition.

This article is about the Intel using illegal methods to maintain a monopoly. The New York Attorney General says that the lack of competition means that customers are deprived of good prices.

Do you think the government should intervene here and regulate the prices so that the consumers can have better prices? If the government regulated the prices consumers would be more satisfied and the services would work better. The government could also bring in competition to regulate the prices.

Small carmakers continue producing a wide range of cars that can appeal to various customers. The most noticeable factor is the variety of brands competing with one another. This competitive market is entirely about cars - both imported and domestic.

In an effort to combat what is seen as deliberate action on the part of the Chinese government to keep that value of its currency artificially low to improve the competitiveness of exports in foreign markets, The US has considered devaluing its own currency. This has led to criticism from China and Russia.

This article is an example of the effects of elements, such as unemployment and competition, on profit

This article is about Google introducing a new smartphone. It is intended to compete with the Apple iPhone. This is non-price competition because it is centered around product differentiation rather than prices. Google's aim is to compete by offering a different product rather than lower prices.

Apple will host a product event on Jan. 27, giving chief executive Steve Jobs a chance to unveil a long-rumored, touch-screen tablet device for surfing the Web and playing movies and music. This is an example of non-pricing competition because Apple is introducing a new product through product innovation and improved technology. Apple has been succesfull in grabbing the consumer's hearts with their unique design and functions.

This article shows how the recall of several Toyota models acts as a form of non-price competition for other firms in the car industry. Ford and GM have benefited from the lack of consumer trust in the Toyota, and have both seen an increase in sales.

Japal Airline is experiencing a massive loss of revenue. The theory of pure competition is relevant to thsi article because if JAL continues to fail to maximize profit and reduce its loss, there are possibilities of the firm to withdraw from the industry.

Air India has lost over a billion dollars in the past year because the current recession has reduced air traffic, and thus profits. This is an example of a market without pure competition, because the firm and others in the industry are losing so much money.

This article is about the need for Industrialization in African states. Industrialization would improve the productive efficiency in these countries by lowering the average costs of production. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon believes that increased industrialization in Africa will increase competition and allow integration into the global economy.

Although this article does not mention any monopoly as such, the word 'merger' did capture my attention, since we studied the concept in the present chapter. In the article, the author is explaining the coming co-operation between two of the most important airlines in China; I have thus implied that these airlines are merging in order to become something close to a monopoly, since they do not want to risk competition uncertainties.

Japan has fought off the hard economic struggles after WWII, and seemed to finally achieve economic stability after twenty years of hardship........until the economic crisis hit worldwide and paradise lost. Wages began to fall at the nation-level even before the crisis hit Japan because the workforce shifted from well-paid elderlies to underpaid yougnsters. Because of this, Japanese consumerism seems to have changed - people are suddenly more thrifty. The firms have to fight for a better deal against other firms under the competition.

This article talks about the car industry and how various care companies are trying themselves. Many are trying to be the "most environmentally friendly". Some keeping performance as their distinguishing factor. All of this shows forms of non-price discrimination in the marker