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New York -- Uniqlo, a division of Japan's Fast Retailing Co., will open its second U.S. mall location, at Palisades Center in West Nyack, N.Y., on March 15. The 24,000-sq.-ft. store will showcase Uniqlo's complete offering of products for men and women,...

It would be fair to call Etsy, which bowed in 2005, a disruptor. The online marketplace birthed a new business model that gives independent designers a global platform to sell everything from handmade jewelry to vintage clothing and home furnishings. But lately mainstream, national chains like Nordstrom and West Elm have been turning to Etsy — which swelled to $895.1 million in sales in 2012, up from $525.6 million in 2011 — to inject their stores’ merchandise with a patina of one-of-a-kind-handcraft authenticity, much like many big Hollywood studios set up independent film divisions to burnish their art-house cinema bonafides.

New York -- Saks Fifth Avenue has redesigned the Saks.com homepage to include a longer, more fluid layout that more prominently highlights seasonal trends and most-wanted designers. New features on Saks.com include large-scale photography, improved...

New York -- Barnes & Noble Inc. signed an employment agreement with CEO William Lynch to remain in his post for another two years, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Lynch will receive the same compensation and...

Amazon.com has launched its first fashion-oriented online shop-in-shop, featuring Derek Lam's contemporary line 10 Crosby. The site, which has its own landing page but is accessed through Amazon (so would that be a site-in-site? Probably.), is the start of a larger push to render its apparel offerings in a more appealing way. This partnership (and future partnerships) is piggybacking on Amazon's other big-time initiatives like same-day delivery, making it so when customers want their designer goods and want them now, Amazon can make it happen.

4 minutes ago, 7:53am (ET) 03/11/2013 Datamonitor Dover Saddlery Retail, Inc., a multichannel retailer of equestrian products, has announced the opening of its first New York store on April 19-21, 2013. The new Dover Saddlery store will be located on...

NEW YORK — Macy's exclusive new MADE Fashion Week for Impulse collection is now available at 150 Macy's stores and online at Macys.com. Inspired by New York's MADE Fashion Week initiative co-founded by Jenné Lombardo, Mazdack Rassi and Keith Baptista,...

What do you do when thousands of mobile industry leaders from around the world get together in one place? You take their collective pulse with a survey, of course. This was the third annual Sybase 365/SAP Mobile survey of the operators, fixed telco providers, over-the-top players and other industry execs at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. 

New York -- Target Corp. is shuttering — at least for now — its “The Shops at Target” concept, which showcased exclusive goods from select independent boutique retailers within in-store shops in Target stores, the Star Tribune reported. “At this time,...

Ann Taylor and LOFT now offer international shipping via their e-commerce websites, anntaylor.com and loft.com. "The introduction of international shipping marks another key step forward as we continue to grow our e-commerce business and expand the...