My recap of top industry news from last week.  All sources can be found in the hyperlink after the headline:

Retailer + Brand News:

• Target eyes holiday turnaround on free shipping and faux fur. Link
• Retail’s new battleground: The I want what I want when I want it generation. Link
• Trunk Club to open first brick-and-mortar store on Madison Avenue. Link
• Under Armour’s rising sneaker sales have yet to tread on Nike. Link
• Gilt names former Starwood Hotels exec as chief marketing officer. Link
• Etsy launches card reader for in-person payments. Link
• Amazon posts largest quarterly loss in 14 years. Link
• Macy’s links with Google to show mobile users what’s in stock nearby. Link
• Rakuten, Japan’s Amazon, launches fashion site in the U.S. Link
• Staples is the latest retailer to be hit by hackers. Link
• Apple shutting down Beats Music app and rolling it into iTunes. Link
• J.Crew says it will sit out athletic trend. Link
• Sears said to be closing 77 stores. Link
• Groupon’s site now has dedicated pages for 7 million businesses across the US. Link
• Bloomingdale’s equips fitting rooms with iPads for smart shopping. Link
• Anthropologie may open in AT&T’s former NYC headquarters. Link
• Asos sees future payoff from 2014 investments. Link
• FedEx, UPS make plans for better holiday season. Link

Social Media + Marketing:

• Ello bans advertising and raises $5.5M in new funding. Link
• Facebook launches new Rooms app that harkens back to early days of Internet chatrooms. Link
• Groupon channels Yelp with new listings service. Link
• Behind Twitter’s move to become a mobile-services shop. Link
• Tumblr to make over $100M in revenue next year. Link
• How Facebook is changing the way its users consumer journalism. Link
• New Target CEO makes mark on holiday efforts. Link
• Pandora gives musicians a data dashboard to see where their fans are. Link
• North America holds tight to world’s largest ad spending share. Link
• Haul videos influence holiday shopping. Link
• Snapchat rolls out first advertiser. Link

Start-ups:

• Glamsquad raises $7M for on-demand styling and beauty services. Link
• Tindr to take a swipe at monetization with new premium dating upgrade. Link
• Digital lockers will take parcels and clean laundry. Link

International:

[APAC]

• Zalora opens first offline shop. Link
• India’s Snapdeal forays into premium designer segment. Link
• China’s Alipay offers ePass payment service for U.S. retail websites. Link
• Apple set to open 25 new stores in China by end of 2016. Link
• Zara stumbes in India. Link
• Taobao Marketplace launches click-and-collect in Singapore. Link

[AU/NZ]

• Sydney’s Big Commerce takes on Amazon with Alibaba deal. Link

[EU]

• American Eagle lands in UK. Link
• Amazon web services to open German center. Link
• Primark prepares to make entrance in U.S. Link

[CA]

• Target Canada to experiment with overstocking in turnaround effort. Link

Mobile, Tablet, + Wearables:

• Urban Outfitters tackles in-app product search challenge. Link
• Google wants to organize your life with new email app. Link
• TestFlight Beta testing goes live for all iOS developers. Link
• Amazon takes retail approach to push flagging Fire phone. Link
• Google wants Inbox to be your email system for the next decade. Link
• Amazon quietly launches app store within its main Android app. Link
• Square launches app marketplace to make third-party integration painless for businesses. Link
• Twitter unveils Fabric, a welcome gift to mobile developers. Link
• Fitbit announces new fitness trackers, including its first smartwatch. Link
• Microsoft makes progress with phone and tablet sales. Link
• Nike sees brighter wearables future with Apple. Link

[Apple Pay coverage]:

• Square encircled as Apple, Paypal aim for mobile payments. Link
• Apple Pay threatens a competing approach to simplifying payments. Link
• CVS and RiteAid disable Apple Pay. Link
• CurrentC is the big retailers’ clunky attempt to kill Apple Pay and credit card fees. Link
• Bank of America customers double-charged in Apple Pay snafu. Link
• Jumio launches card-scanning mobile checkout for retailers’ iOS and Android apps. Link

Other:

• How to turn your company into a movement. Link
• The psychology of web design. Link
• Roku could file for IPO soon, raises as much as $150M. Link