It was won by Georges Bouton of the De Dion-Bouton Company, in a car he had constructed with Albert, the Comte de Dion, but as he was the only competitor to show up it is rather difficult to call it a race.

Furthermore, Spencer argued that individuals with superior resources who deliberately used investment schemes to put competitor out of business were committing acts of “ commercial murder ”.

However, Atari started to sue its competitor companies for releasing games to which it had exclusive-rights agreements and Emerson was left with thousands of manufactured games that could no longer be sold.

The small minibus operator M & M Coaches and its main competitor Transdev Lancashire United provide service in Accrington, with routes to places such as Blackburn, Oswaldtwistle, Rishton, Burnley and Clitheroe.

Since 2000, with a struggling Gateway was taken over by eMachines, this left only Dell as Compaq's major competitor, however Dell became the number one supplier of PCs in 2001.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3. 0 later the same year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

Many dot-coms named themselves with onomatopoeic nonsense words that they hoped would be memorable and not easily confused with a competitor.

Analogously, the producer compares marginal revenue ( identical to price for the perfect competitor ) against the marginal cost of a good, with marginal profit the difference.

The competitor with the longest single legal throw ( over all rounds ) is the winner ; in the case of a tie the competitors ' second-longest throws are also considered.

In 1999, the Krupp Group merged with its largest competitor, Thyssen AG ; the combined company — ThyssenKrupp AG, became Germany's fifth-largest firm and one of the largest steel producers in the world.

A scorable in a kendo competition ( tai-kai ) is defined as an accurate strike or thrust made onto a datotsu-bui of the opponent's kendo-gu with the shinai making contact at its datotsu-bu, the competitor displaying high spirits, correct posture and followed by zanshin.

LG claimed the smartphone LG Optimus Black with an IPS LCD ( LCD NOVA ) has the brightness up to 700 nits, while the competitor has only IPS LCD with 518 nits and double an Active-matrix OLED ( AMOLED ) display with 305 nits.

If the competitor starts the leap with any part of the foot past the foul line, the jump is declared a foul and no distance is recorded.

Telcon invented Mu-metal to compete with Permalloy, the first high permeability alloy used for cable compensation, whose patent rights were held by competitor Western Electric.

In 1708, for example, the East India Company merged with an erstwhile competitor to restore its monopoly over Indian trade.

Each competitor is credited with their longest throw, regardless of whether it was achieved in the preliminary or final rounds.

The competitor with the longest legal put is declared the winner.

A merger between Square and its competitor Enix was in consideration since at least 2000 ; however, the financial failure of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within made Enix hesitant to join with a company which was losing money, and the merge was delayed until April 1, 2003, when the two companies finally merged to form Square Enix.

This merger followed shortly after Telia's failed merger with Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, now its chief competitor in the Nordic countries.

This started in the early 90s ' and was only met with a similar motivated competitor in 2004 called REM FM.

Beginning in 2009, a kick or punch that makes contact with the opponent's hogu ( the body guard that functions as a scoring target ) scores one point ; if a kick to the hogu involved a technique that includes fully turning the attacking competitor's body, so that the back is fully exposed to the targeted competitor during execution of the technique ( spinning kick ), an additional point is awarded ; a kick to the head scores three points ; as of October 2010 an additional point is awarded if a turning kick was used to execute this attack.

He would go on to win the match and earn a world title shot, last eliminating Randy Orton, he lasted 62 minutes making him the person to be the longest lasting competitor in the Royal Rumble.

Despite this, in years on air, Soul Train will continue to hold the honor of the longest, continuously running first-run syndicated program in television history until at least 2016, if and when its nearest competitor, Entertainment Tonight, completes its 35th season.

The Miami Metropolis, which later became The Miami News was founded in 1896 and the Heralds longest competitor until 1988 when it went out of business.

The winner is the competitor who achieves the longest distance on one of the 3 or 6 attempts.

Porsche then formally announced in a press statement that it did not intend to take over Volkswagen Group ( it would set its offer price at the lowest possible legal value ) but intended the move to avoid a competitor taking a large stake, and to stop hedge funds dismantling Volkswagen Group, which is Porsche's most important partner.

External environmental factors include customer analysis, competitor analysis, target market analysis, as well as evaluation of any elements of the technological, economic, cultural or political / legal environment likely to impact success.

West ’ s chief competitor in the legal information retrieval market is LexisNexis.

The ABC Spark name was chosen to avoid viewer confusion and / or legal issues with the preexisting and unrelated Canadian channel Family, which is owned by competitor Astral Media, and carries programming from ABC Family sister network Disney Channel.

The first Managing Partner of Hyperion, Benjamin Hermans, in the period between announcement and release of AmigaOS 4, ignited a great deal of community controversy by repeatedly claiming that MorphOS, an AmigaOS-like competitor ( which had been released in complete form in 2003 ), was illegal, and had on several occasions threatened to take legal action against it either on the grounds that it was parasitic competition to AmigaOS 4, or even that it was actually based on stolen AmigaOS source code.

A rule unique to lucha libre applies during tag team matches, which is when the legal wrestler of a team touches the floor outside the ring, a teammate may enter the ring to take his place as the legal competitor.

In 2002, during a spate of legal threats and challenges to competitors with " geek " in their names, Geek Squad attempted to block the trademark registration of New England area competitor Geek Housecalls claiming that it violated their trademarks.

Since 2007, Incat and Austal, its main competitor in Australia, have been involved in a legal dispute over the ownership and transfer of sensitive documents between the companies.

* In November 2008, a New York State court refused to dismiss a suit alleging that Robert J. Ivanhoe, chairman of Greenberg Traurig's New York City office and head of its real estate group, disregarded his " legal and fiduciary duties " by taking a personal financial stake in a competitor to a client that had invested in a multibillion-dollar real estate venture.

In September 2011, Antrak Air filed a legal challenge seeking an injunction to suspend operations of new competitor Starbow Airlines.

He was intended for the legal profession, but his passion for architecture was too strong, and after holding some government posts at Milan, he entered as a competitor for the construction of the Porta Orientale.

Hwang entered into a partnership with RNL Bio's competitor, BioArts International, which caused an on-going legal battle into who owns the patent rights.

The competitor can initiate the jump from any point behind the foul line ; however, the distance measured will always be perpendicular to the foul line to the nearest break in the sand caused by any part of the body or uniform.

The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field sport, similar to the long jump, but involving a " hop, bound and jump ": the competitor runs down the track and performs a hop, a bound and then a jump into the sand pit.

The company U. S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., is approached by its biggest competitor that has plans for a working hyperspace engine that allows humans to survive the jump ( a theme which would be further developed in future Asimov stories ).

On the show, he was the only competitor to capture the needed key in the bungee jump challenge on an upswing.

In 2002, Englishman Richard Burns challenged teammate Grönholm to become the third non-Nordic competitor to win the rally, but broke his car on a jump in Ouninpohja while leading the event.

In over fences classes ( classes in which the horse and rider jump obstacles ), the competitor rides over a course of at least six jumps ( usually more ).

Carl Ludwig " Lu ( t ) z " Long ( 27 April 1913 in Leipzig – 13 July 1943 in San Pietro Clarenza ) was a German Olympic long-jumper, notable for winning Silver in the event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and for reputedly giving advice to his competitor, Jesse Owens, who went on to win the gold medal for the broad jump ( as the long jump was then termed ) as a result of Long's advice.