Carlson sells Asian fast-casual brand to focus on T.G.I. Friday's.

William Rast, the men's and women's fashion collection by Justin Timberlake, has arrived at Target stores in the U.S. along with a new campaign.

Those kids who grew up riding in minivans are now parents themselves. Ford is betting that these Millennials are looking for smaller, more fuel-efficient alternatives to the modern super-sized minivans. The company plans to heavily market the C-Max, which marks Ford's return to the minivan segment for the first time in seven years. Ford's timing might be good: After years of declines, minivan sales are up 9.3% this year, about the same as 2010 industry sales.

CEO John Donahue says he looks "through the eyes of the customer" as he leads the company against rival Amazon and hundreds of smaller, specialized retail sites. He has been working to: buff up the site's e-commerce technology; expand eBay's mobile capability; open up PayPal, eBay's online payment service, to developers for new applications, which has helped continue its dominance; and orchestrate a series of acquisitions that reinvigorated the online auction pioneer. He also picks the brains of rivals like Zappo's Tony Hsieh on how to improve customer service.

The Public Citizen report said off-label promotion of drugs was the No. 1 reason for pharmaceutical-company penalties in recent years. In the past five years, off-label penalties have increased six-fold over the previous 15 years. Leading the charge: Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline.

The maker of Jimmy Dean foods and Ball Park hotdogs, recently rejected a takeover offer from Brazil's JBS, deeming the price too low, sources told the news agency.

The arrangement with the new U.S. version of Simon Cowell's hit show "The X Factor" heralds a return of the cola wars that marked music and entertainment in the 1980s and 1990s to American television screens.

A long time coming, the combined efforts of major players and successful startups have irrevocably changed the way consumers shop.

Well? Would you?

Many retailers have cut way back on the number of bands they carry and some aren't even selling them. America's hottest 2010 fad seems to have snapped.