A striking feature of metabolism is the similarity of the basic metabolic pathways and metabolites among vastly different species, while genes, mRNAs and proteins are diversified from species to species.
That points also to how the company needs to continue to develop more products that are diversified from each other and "beyond the daily deal" (as co-founder and ex-CEO Andrew Mason once said) to build up its business.
The company needs to continue to develop more products that are diversified from each other and "beyond the daily deal" (to paraphrase co-founder and ex-CEO Andrew Mason) to keep current customers loyal, and to attract new ones, too.
It is diversifying from sailboats to powerboats.
The problem is diversifying from the ad-supported model, because news publishers struggled to convert readers into paying for news through subscriptions.
For example, one of a new generation of hoteliers, Ho Kwon Ping, the executive chairman of Banyan Tree Hotels and Resorts, is diversifying from his usual tropical locations and building China's first Banyan Tree hotel in Yunnan Province.
Gradually, production has been diversifying from such labour-intensive industries as textiles to high-technology activities like the manufacture of electronics and precision equipment and oil refining, which yield a much higher added value to production.
King Salman's sons directly own one of the largest Arab media conglomerates, Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG), which has been diversifying from publishing into digital media and recently announced plans to launch a financial news network with Bloomberg.
In a bid to shed some of its bad image, Blackwater has attempted a makeover, changing its name last year to Xe and emphasising in its public message that it is diversifying from war zone activities into safer areas such as training and consulting.
Altria controls about half the U.S. tobacco market and has been diversifying from manufacturing cigarettes to a wider variety of products, including smokeless cigarettes and wine.
