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Re:Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors by quickthrower2 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @01:41AM (#18634217)
No company is a what it actually does company.
Re:Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors by sah2ed on Saturday December 08, 2018 @05:25AM (#18634690)
> No company is a what it actually does company.

Or perhaps that companies, like individuals, have facets.

Someone calling Google a search engine company is no more correct than you saying they are an advertising company, technology company etc, or in a negative sense, a monopoly.

Each of these epithets refer to the same entity, it's just that each emphasizes a particular trait over other traits for the point being made. A regulator is more much more likely to use "search engine" in conjugation with "monopoly" to characterize Google than with the term "technology company" since their goal is to highlight a potential case of abuse that is known to stem from such market power.

Re:Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors by taneq on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:47AM (#18635456)
True, but I'd phrase it as "no big company is actually a what-you-think-it-is company."