Google Pixel phone launch – as it happened Google Pixel phone launched to take on iPhone.
Adding physical pharmacies is an interesting twist for the startup, which launched to take on brick-and-mortar retail drugstores.
Eventually, the new Apple TV is likely to become the place from which Apple launches its plans to take on Netflix with a complete streaming TV and film service.
Gootip, the location-based Q&A startup from France, launched in May to take on Hipster (we think, as Hipster is still stealth) and other sites like it trying to make Yahoo Answers, for example, a valuable, realtime service.
UK-based Brand Embassy, a provider of social-media based customer care services, is buying Beepl, UK-based a semantic search site that launched in January 2012 to take on Quora, Answers.com, ChaCha and others in the Q&A space.
Consider, for example, the team at United Way of the Battle Creek and Kalamazoo Region in Michigan, which launched an initiative to take on gaps in education after discovering that just 5percentt of kindergarteners could read proficiently.
Amazon appears set to launch a tablet computer to take on the iPad.
Chinese technology company Baidu, often labelled as China's Google has launched a digital assistant to take on rivals from Apple, Microsoft and Google.
Future inherited Spin as part of a £30.5m, 38-magazine deal with Highbury House in April, just after the magazine launched in a bid to take on the cricket lover's traditional magazine of choice, The Wisden Cricketer.
