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PayPal Rival Google Checkout Checks Out
May 22, 2013

Google is abandoning its payment processing service called Google Checkout, but it still wants to offer merchants a way to streamline the checkout process for mobile users through Google Wallet. On

Google checks out on Checkout
May 21, 2013

Menlo Park, Calif. - Google will close down its Google Checkout online payment service for good in November of this year. The online service and...

Jenna Lyons Reveals the Secrets to Becoming a J.Crew Collaborator
May 21, 2013

For a fashion brand, getting picked up by J.Crew is practically the equivalent of getting venture backing in Silicon Valley. "We buy what other people do much better than we can ever do," says J.Crew's Chairman and CEO Mickey Drexler of the retailer's strategy to play curator. So while J.Crew's designers come up with fashion juggernauts like the The Ludlow Suit (aka "the perfect suit"), the company finds brands to pair up with โ€” from a $13.00 Japanese Rollbahn spiral notebook to

Gap's Annual Meeting Overshadowed by Bangladesh Safety Accord
May 21, 2013

Gap got an earful Tuesday during its annual shareholder meeting about not living up to its reputation as a socially responsible company. The San Francisco retailer received over 20,000 calls and plenty of hate mail from disgruntled customers around the world who are angry over its failure to sign onto an international agreement calling for building safety in Bangladesh, where recent factory accidents killed 1,100 workers. Another 50 protesters from labor groups like Global Exchange and International Labor Rights Forum picked outside the retailer's shareholder meeting.