This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. One of the things I obsess about is whether our current state of technology is immutable. Are Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple and other tech giants invincible? One way to explore these questions is to look at tech copycats. It’s a rare example of an internet property that became huge and wasn’t owned by one of America’s tech stars.

Source: New York Times February 19, 2021 17:48 UTC