Sentence examples for earliest direct competitor from inspiring English sources

Beyond OnDeck a slew of online credit businesses are waiting in the wings with aspirations to take their own bow on the IPO stage and their own twist on the lending business that was pioneered in the U.S. by Lending Club and its earliest direct competitor, Prosper.

As noted earlier, direct competitors are essentially non-existent in the Mid-Atlantic region.

PicPlz, the mobile photo sharing app that is perhaps known best for being an early and direct competitor with Instagram, will shut down permanently on July 3. Until then, you can log in and download your photos by clicking on the download link next to each photo in your photo feed.

One bidder that was taken off the table fairly quickly was Netflix, which was precluded from consideration early on because it was a direct competitor, according to a person briefed on the matter.

The earliest OpenStack rhetoric implicitly or explicitly pitched the project as a direct competitor to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which was probably a mistake.

Bachmann had already signaled earlier Thursday, before Perry's office made his entry semi-official, that she sees him as a direct competitor.

Siemens is a direct competitor of General Electric.

FindTheBest is not a direct competitor to Google.

That would make it a direct competitor to Skype.

Google is, in fact, a direct competitor with NBBC.

Coming from Siebel, a direct competitor, I understood its challenges.