Happy Monday! Here is a recap of industry news from the last week.  Sources are in the hyperlinked text after the headline.

Brands and Retailers

• Legacy retailer and disruptive brand partnerships are on the rise.  Forbes
• Mattel sales fall despite strong showing from Barbie.  The Wall Street Journal
• Target focuses on private label brands to compete with Amazon.  Glossy
• Buzzfeed launches Goodful product line with Macy’s.  MediaPost
• The affordable cashmere wars are heating up just in time for sweater weather.  Fast Company 
• Sam’s Club looks to fend off Amazon with cashier-less stores.  Fast Company
• How Peapod plans to win over customers in the crowded online grocery market.  Digiday
• Shopify adds Venom as a checkout option just in time for the holidays.  AdWeek
• Measuring the fashion world’s go-to-market strategy.  McKinsey
• Foundation is becoming the most innovative category in makeup.  Fashionista
• Nordstrom adds “early-bird” pick-up this holiday season.  USA Today

Marketing and Social Media

• Tinder preps programmatic ad partnership with Google.  Digiday
• Twitter beats on Q3 earnings.  TechCrunch
• Stickers are coming to WhatsApp.  AdWeek
• The Standard hotel created a virtual lobby so you can meet fellow guests IRL.  Fast Company
• Levi’s, Disney partner on sales via Snapchat. AdWeek
• What Gen Z wants for Christmas.  RetailDive
• Amazon’s ad bonanza continues with $2.5B last quarter.  AdAge
• Apple plans for subscription TV launch.  Mashable
• Blue Apron partners with Jet.com.  TechCrunch

Startup + Emerging Tech + Acquisitions

• IBM buys Red Hat for $34B.  Fast Company
• Grocery, food delivery firms raises billions in new funding.  The Wall Street Journal
• Facial recognition system to approve alcohol and cigarette sales to be trailed in British supermarket.  Telegraph
• Samsung teases a reveal for its foldable, dual-screen smartphone.  
• IBM is making a perfume based on artificial intelligence.  Vox
• Entrepreneurs create $750M bra business by exposing Victoria Secret’s weakness.  Forbes

International

• Cartier meets TMall in Richemont-Alibaba online luxury tie-up.  Bloomberg
• India has already hit record number of $1B startups this year.  Bloomberg
• Vogue said to launch Hong Kong edition.  South China Morning Post
• Goop, new to London, is already being reported to U.K. regulator. Fast Company
• Yoox-Net-a-Porter ink joint venture deal with Alibaba to target Chinese consumers.  The Drum
• Alibaba used shoppers’ data to invent spicy Snickers bar.  Bloomberg 
• Russia’s Yandex trumpets fastest growth in six years.  Reuters