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If you've been dilly-dallying on buying something for your sweetheart this Valentine's Day, don't worry: Now that retailers know what the best-selling items are for the lovers' holiday this year, we can pass that information on to you.

Gilt Groupe pioneered the private "flash sale" fashion website biz, which is now one of the fastest growing sectors in retail. Kevin Ryan, Gilt Groupe's CEO, spoke with us about growth opportunities, the world of private-sale sites, and competition -- including why it has a leg up on Amazon.

A management overhaul at Conde Nast is meant to help its iconic magazines -- including Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker -- flourish in this century as they did in the last.

Jennifer Aniston takes it all off for the promotional campaign of her first fragrance, Lovalie, launched with the privately-held Falic Fashion Group. The images show Aniston, clad only in a towel, sitting on top of rocks in Cabo. The former "Friends" actress says of her new perfume, according to...

The philosophical ideas of three writers, taken to illogical extremes, have wreaked havoc on the world's economy. Here, a look at the danger of embracing the wisdom of James Surowiecki, Thomas Malthus, and Ayn Rand.

The commercial printing industry is ripe for M&A. First of all, the market is highly fragmented, with 30,000 printers in the United States. About 400 companies control less than 30% of the market. Next, the printing industry has been undergoing significant change, as print media has declined...

Among the big victims of the recession has been the media world's conventional wisdom. Just a year or two ago, it was still thought that Conde Nast Publications (my previous employer, it should be noted) would weather the downturn that was then beginning more comfortably than any of its competitors...

Advertisers aren't the only ones using nudity -- or, more often, coy near-nudity -- to raise eyebrows and sales. It's also a favorite trick of magazine editors, as GQ reminds us with its July issue. The cover features Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen in character as Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion...