Wireless last mile technology is becoming a challenging competitor to conventional wired last mile access systems like DSL and cable modems or even fiber-optic cables.
Pinterest's potential to understand users' intent is what may make it a challenging competitor to Google's search engine, which has been selling ads against users' queries (their intent) for years.
For these tests, we compare our results to BWA-SW which is the most widely used long-read aligner and the most challenging competitor to YAHA for finding primary alignments on either chimeric or non-chimeric queries.
Sears, part of the Sears Holdings Corporation, is joining a lengthy list of marketers challenging competitors rather than using coy terms like "Brand X" or "another leading brand".
Some of the world's leading companies, including Google, Qualcomm and Nokia, have sponsored big-money contests challenging competitors around the world to design a host of wonders, including robots that can explore the moon, superefficient electric vehicles and more accurate methods for sequencing the human genome.
"In the Cube Quest challenge we're challenging competitors to take their cubesat into deep space, where no cube sat has gone before," said James Cockrell, who's been running the challenge to NASA for about two years now.
The move is meant to leverage Google's scale to challenge competitors, like Facebook and Twitter, which also offer app install ads that can be targeted to reach particular demographic or interest groups.
Square Cash, the peer-to-peer payments app that aims to replace cash by offering instant deposits, rolled out another feature today that better positions the app to challenge competitors like PayPal and Venmo: the ability to maintain a cash balance.
Today, the Special Olympics have become a global success -- annually attracting tens of thousands of spirited mentally challenged competitors to games in 165 countries.
A 2013 challenge noted by Écrans, a French website run by Libération, challenged competitors to convince astronauts on the International Space Station to take a photo holding a sign with their team's name.
In response to Fox's childish and embarrassing ad in the Washington Post that challenged competitors' coverage of the 9/12 teabaggers in Washington, DC, CNN is airing this equally chilidish and embarrassing ad to prove it did cover the teabaggers in Washington DC.
