Competitor used in a sentence

Competitor in a sentence as a noun

Maybe it's time for someone to start an AdSense competitor whose focus is customer service.

Apple competitors were now framed as 'worse' if they included a screen with the same resolution but bigger!

Four years ago I began work on my own feed reader, NewsBlur, and it's now a full-fledged Google Reader competitor.

Our largest competitor, run by Karl Denninger, did us a continuing series of favors by pissing off their customers.

This is a pattern for Amazon: I work for a competitor to Amazon, and they went after us for violating a non-compete after we hired an AWS engineer.

Contaminated by an over-promising under-performing competitor that thought that 'growth' is equal to 'health'.

Google has a thousand times as many employees, but when's the last time they sued one of them like this?Were I in Opera's shoes, even if the ex-employee had blabbed something important to a competitor, I would say, "**** that jerk" and keep on trying to make something awesome.

We got that reputation by doing some concrete things differently than our competitors: we staffed an appropriate number of CSRs, trained them to be nice to customers, did a lot of gratuitous tech support for basic computer problems, and were flexible about resolving billing disputes.

Our counsel had reviewed the non-compete before we hired the engineer, and concluded that the non-compete didn't actually prevent an engineer from working for a competitor, but rather prevented much narrower activity like poaching customer lists or supplier relationships.

There are several high profile AWS customers to pick from, but the obvious customer to start with is Netflix: they care about GCE's putative differentiators of price and performance -- and Amazon is a mortal threat to Netflix as a competitor, which should give some boardroom-level urgency to the discussion.

One competitor can indeed sue another competitor for private damages and other relief if the other competitor is gaining an unfair competitive advantage by falsely advertising that its products or services do something that is material to the customer's decision to use that product or service.

One of the peculiar attributes of Amazon's action against us is that it was well publicized within Amazon -- and was apparently a result of outrage by a high-ranking executive after he learned that the former AWS engineer not only was working for a competitor, but had the gumption to open source a technology that he developed here.

Not because of the legal costs, but because:- it's disruptive to the business - your whole life becomes dealing with due diligence, not to mention the stress level- it gives the acquirer the chance to rethink their decision or consider another route- business conditions could change - your biggest competitor goes up for sale at a bargain basement priceSo, in the end, you're not optimizing for cost, and prepping for DD is definitely not worth doing pre-product or at the expense of building your business.