{"id":15256,"date":"2020-11-24T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/economics\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:11:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T09:11:19","slug":"economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineclassesguru.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/24\/economics\/","title":{"rendered":"economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>An interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investment in Apple (New Straits Times, 1997). The article is included in the Required Readings list. Facing tough anti-trust scrutiny from government agencies, Microsoft provided financial support to Apple in order to ensure Apple\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s survival and, therefore, to ensure that competitiveness in the industry remains. 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