Stories about: Borders Group

After seven years of outsourcing its Web site to Amazon.com, brick-and-mortar bookstore Borders has launched its own e-commerce site, Borders.com.

After a month of beta-testing some features of its new Web site, Borders Group is ready to see what consumers think.

For the second time in five weeks, four major Internet companies are being sued for patent infringement lawsuit.

Google, Yahoo, AOL, Amazon.com, Borders Group and IAC/InteractiveCorp have been sued by Marshall, Texas-based Polaris IP for allegedly violating its patent for an "automatic message interpretation and routing system."

On Wednesday, Intel will officially launch its new Centrino mobile processor chip, which offers built-in Wi-Fi capabilities and will be given a US$300 million advertising send-off. But company officials acknowledge that the launch comes at a dicey time, given the attention on the Middle East and military build-up there.

A class action suit filed in Northern California is charging Borders Group Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. with violating federal antitrust laws by selling books together online, according to a report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week.

Prediction 1: Wireless Ethernet, also known as IEEE 802.11b or Wi-Fi, will continue to cover ground like a stampeding brontosaurus in Jurassic Park III. And as it becomes ubiquitous, wireless carriers will start to hurt. Why? Because as Wi-Fi gets incorporated into corporate networks, gets deployed in public places, and even becomes part of the design and construction of new homes, VOIP (voice over IP) will become the killer app that closes the deal for Wi-Fi installation.

No one at Webvan's San Diego operations saw it coming. In mid-January, four months after acquiring rival HomeGrocer.com, Webvan was set to unite the two most powerful online grocers under one brand and one technology platform. It was a milestone, the first step toward the efficiency the companies had promised Wall Street at the time of the US$1.2 billion merger. HomeGrocer's San Diego warehouse would switch over to Webvan's technology, and other facilities would follow.

A new survey of 550 North American retailers doing business on the Web shows that companies with established mail-order catalog businesses are virtually the only ones making profits online at this point.

Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. and Borders Group Inc. today said they have cut a deal to relaunch Borders' Web site, which will be powered by Amazon's e-commerce platform. The new site will be launched in August.

In its second alliance with an offline chain, Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday that it would run the online operations for rival Borders Group Inc.