Borders Faces the Music
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The final chapter for Borders. The second-largest bookstore chain in the company announced its plans to liquidate its nearly 400 stores around the country.
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ... Read more
Borders, I loved you! But you blew it fair and square. This week's announcement that the book superstore chain is filing for bankruptcy protection came as... Read more
It's time to start writing epitaphs. Borders is officially dead, announcing this week that it will be shutting down the last of its 399 stores. The saddes... Read more
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The Problem: Intellinitiative's board games were flying off the shelves. Then, a giant brand muscled them out of the store. Read more
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