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A Texas college student has singlehandedly subverted the premise of American Apparel's self-congratulatory foray into plus-sized merchandise -- which the retail chain defines as sizes 12 and 14.

Legal filings show that Google initially offered to pay as little as $8.4 billion for Motorola Mobility before finally settling for $12.5 billion demanded by financial advisers.

While most Target stores nationwide are sold out of the retailer's red hot Missoni for Target collection items, eBay has exploded with products for resale.

Gold fell by nearly 1 percent on Tuesday after European leaders appeared to take a fresh step toward quelling the euro zone debt crisis, which dented other safe-haven assets, in spite of more data highlighting the fragility of the U.S. economy.

Auction.com, the nation's leading real estate auctioneer and loan sales advisor,has announced its upcoming online auctioning of over 325 Non-Performing Notes & Commercial REO Properties located throughout the Southeastern U.S., representing the largest online auction of commercial real estate to date for the company that pioneered modern real estate auctions.

The top U.S. securities regulator has formed an advisory panel of fast-growing companies and venture capital funds as it reviews whether it needs to update rules on how private companies can access public investors.

If you weren't one of the door busters or quick-fingered enough to snag a Missoni item for sale at Target on Tuesday, there are countless other designer collections offered at discount prices through retail chains.

Missoni for Target sold out within hours of its initial launch -- was this exactly what was supposed to happen?

The Internet is blazing Tuesday with two red hot retail deals that some consumers can't get enough of and some consumers have already had enough of. One is the Whole Foods/LivingSocial deal offered Tuesday, in which the daily deal company is offering a $10 coupon for $20 in food. The other is the launch of Missoni for Target line of clothing and accessories.

With the Target Web site down, eager Missoni for Target would-be shoppers have taken to Twitter to solve the Missoni mystery.

The collection sold out of stores within minutes and crashed the Target website

Missoni for Target is red hot. The designer collection launched at Target on Tuesday, quickly selling out at many stores around the country and crashing the company's retail Web site.

AT&T announced on Monday it will start offering the Acer Iconia Tab A501 featuring Android Honeycomb, on Sept. 18. Anyone who commits to a two-year agreement for a new $35, 3GB monthly data plan can snag one of the 10.1-inch tablet for $330.

Cargill Inc said on Sunday that it will recall ground turkey products at one of its U.S. facilities for the second time in two months after a U.S. government body found salmonella contamination.

Amazon is about to launch a consumer tech battle with its highly-anticipated new tablet, expected to be launched in October, and the company is likely to try to win customers for its new product through a low product price-point and an annual content subscription model that will let readers have free access to older books and streaming movies and TV shows.

Silver, bronze, ebony and plastics are seeing greater use in jewelery as surging gold prices put off price-conscious consumers, jewelery makers at an international trade fair said.

Greek workers threatened on Monday to sabotage a new property tax decided by the government as a last-ditch effort to please international lenders, ignoring warnings that Athens will run out of cash next month.

Across from a noodle shop in a Yokohama suburb, Hisayoshi Teramura's inn looks much like any other small lodging that dots the port city. Occasionally, it's even mistaken for a love hotel by couples hankering for some time beneath the sheets.

Amazon showed the world after the dot com bubble that an Internet retailer could be huge, profitable and powerful. Then, the company effectively created the booming ebook industry. Now, Amazon is trying to change to change our world again, talking with traditional book publishers about creating an ebook rental service.

Gold fell further on Monday after posting its worst closing since June last week but bargain hunters could cushion the fall, while escalating worries about Europe's ability to resolve its debt crisis sent bullion priced in euro to a record high.

The most awaited smartphones apart from Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 are the Samsung Galaxy S 2 and the Motorola Droid Bionic. The Droid Bionic is finally available in stores, more than eight months after the device was unveiled.