Drugstore chain CVS has taken down CVSPhoto.com while it investigates a possible credit card data breach. “We have been made aware that customer credit card information collected by the independent vendor who manages and hosts CVSPhoto.com may have been compromised,” reads a statement on the website.

Royal London Group has appointed Mediavest to handle its media planning and buying duties, previously handled by VCCP Media. The contract covers all media including TV, outdoor, digital. A spokesperson for the insurance company said there are plans to spend GBP10 million annually on media going forward. Mediavest will be working in conjunction with White Spider Media - a business-to-business media specialist. VCCP will continue to handle Royal London's creative advertising.

Pabst Blue Ribbon will return to Milwaukee, to the very site of the former brewery, shuttered two decades ago. The company will open a microbrewery, including a tasting room, at the former Pabst Brewing complex on downtown's west side. Most of the former brewery buildings have been redeveloped into a hotel, apartments, offices and other new uses, with more projects in the works.

Amazon only said that members shopped at record rates during its first ever "Prime Day." But it was different story on social media, where consumers expressed frustration and disappointments about the quality of the offered deals. Amazon's daily sales in the U.S. were up around 80% as of noon Wednesday in New York and 40% in Europe, compared with a year earlier, according to ChannelAdvisor.

A recent survey by University of Michigan researchers finds that just over 15% of drivers want an autonomous vehicle. The survey, conducted by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, polled 505 people and found that 43.8% didn't want any form of autonomous technology in their vehicles while 40.6% were comfortable some level of self-driving tech. And 96.2% of respondents want a steering wheel, brake and gas pedal in their vehicle no matter the level of autonomy.

Marketing budgets have increased for the 11th consecutive quarter but confidence is heading in the other direction, per the IPA Bellwether Report. The report says 12.2% of companies registered an increase in budgets in the second quarter of 2015, up from 11.8% in the first quarter and 6.1% in the fourth quarter of 2014. But confidence in companies' own financial prospects dropped to a nine-quarter low of 25.3%.

Google's official buy button for mobile is called "Purchases." The button will appear as "Buy on Google" or "Checkout." When you click on that button on your mobile device screen, usually below the search result item, you go to a retailer-branded site to execute the buy. Both the site and purchase process will be hosted by Google, while the retailer will maintain the transaction connection to the customer.

Airbnb CMO Jonathan Mildenhall says the authentic, local experience that is the basis of the brand position benefits it on a global stage. "Globalization has created a fantastic market for us. Now you have people, particularly the millennial generation, and increasingly the baby boomers, who actively avoid the places where [global hospitality brands] are present. Take, for example, someone who's going to San Francisco for the first time but they're an experienced traveler ... they'll stay in neighborhoods."

General Motors, which had signed on as lead sponsor of the Kid Rock summer tour, is staying on the bus, despite the performer's support of the Confederate flag, the company said. GM rep Pat Morrissey said that Rock, who once employed the Confederate flag in performance, will only fly the American flag, "and to our knowledge, Kid Rock has not used the Confederate flag on stage for several years."

Forty-six percent of American smartphone said, in a Gallup survey, that they can't imagine my life without their smartphone. Over half of women agreed, compared with 41% of men. Younger respondents were more likely than older ones to feel attached to their phones. Women ages 18-to-29 years old were most likely to say that, at 58%, and 45% of their male cohorts said life without smart phones is unimaginable.