Each of the following exemplifies the impact of the macro-environment on a company's strategic opportunities except

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• Ford and Volkswagen announce a strategic partnership to cooperate on the development of autonomous electric vehicles in order to shorten the development cycle and share the enormous costs of deploying new technologies.
• Samsung, stung by a burgeoning trade war between the United States and China that is impacting the sales of smartphones in both nations, forecasts a 56 percent drop in quarterly operating profits.
• Jeff Bezos's Amazon.com Inc. announces plans to launch 3,236 communications satellites, joining in a new space race to offer Internet service from low orbits and squaring off to challenge the fleet of communications satellites planned by Elon Musk's SpaceX.
• concerned over unfair trade practices and diminishing consumer choices, Great Britain's competition regulator announces an investigation into a $575 million investment led by Amazon in the London-based food-delivery service Deliveroo, one of the top international companies in the business of delivering restaurant meals.
• Manchester, England craft brewer Seven Brothers partners with the American cereal manufacturer Kellogg's to create Throw Away I.P.A., a smooth, mellow beer made from Corn Flakes, in an effort to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from food wastes.