Pets.com bought out one online competitor, Petstore.com, in summer 2000.

The company was founded as an online competitor to other electrical and white goods retailers.

Since Orbitz began last year, online competitors have contended that its link to major airlines provided an anticompetitive inside edge on these popular discount fares.

For now, at least, Tiffany is not an online competitor to Blue Nile.

In the same year, it acquired Angel Pop, an online competitor that sold Korean products.

The critics argue that agents across the country have sought to prevent online competitors from gaining a share of the market and changing the business.

All of those firms and their online competitors have been scrapping for bigger pieces of stock offerings, especially initial offerings.

Today, nurseries struggling to stay ahead of online competitors and big-box garden centers are marketing themselves as destinations.

How much news will it feed to its members' online competitors, some of which are itching to steal audiences and advertising?

Nearly a dozen states, for example, have laws forbidding anyone without a funeral director's license from selling a coffin, hampering some online competitors.