Why does Amazon have no Western rivals?

First, to be sure, Amazon isn’t without competitors in any of the segments it is in, including e-commerce. Major US retailers like Walmart and Target both have broad-based, rapidly-expanding online retail arms, and offer their own versions of Amazon’s Prime subscription service.

Inside the secretive and lucrative world of orchid breeding

“The foundation is still what we are doing for 100 years already. You take two plants, you look at their characteristics, and you make a cross. But [the breeders] have white lab coats, [and] they’re doing all kinds of research with markers, with genomics, on plant health.”

Why big tech is betting on cute mascots

John Solomon, chief marketing officer at Mozilla, says: “If you think about our competition – look at a Chrome logo, look at a Safari logo, look at an Edge logo – they’re very stark, somewhat similar, somewhat cold. As a challenger brand, we want to distinguish ourselves from them.”