Retail market structure refers to the number of companies that sell similar or identical products in the same geographical area. An oligopoly describes a small group of companies that collude to raise ...

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Businesses don't operate in a bubble -- their sales and profitability are affected by the business environment in which they operate. Many factors affect this environment, from regulation and ...

Behind the scenes of the more obvious oligopolizations we see emerging in today's tech industry — the ones regarding data, computer processing power and consumer attention — is a related but subtler ...

Three companies that dominated Korea’s sugar market were slapped with fines totaling more than 400 billion won ($277 million) ...

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Eight out of 10 companies that have adopted artificial intelligence (AI) services are using three or more different AI model ...

Rick Schifter paints a distorted portrait of the relevance of private equity to the recovery of the airline industry (“Why Airlines Are Flying High,” op-ed, Feb. 4). In the 25 years after the 1978 ...

The real estate sector in Pakistan cannot be fully considered a market due to the absence of a centralised platform that facilitates direct interaction between buyers and sellers to discover ...