Target News

The mobile payment industry will get a major push, with an upcoming new smartphone payment system backed by top retailers like Wal-Mart and Target.

Apple plans to launch "store within a store" retail spaces inside Target locations, as it seeks to broaden its sales reach to compete against Google.

Retailers are offering mobile gift cards, loaded onto smartphones, making shopping more convenient during the holidays.

Retailers are using Facebook to promote their back-to-school products, betting the social platform will prove a cheaper, more effective way to reach their customers.

Target and RadioShack are reportedly cutting the price of the current iPhones, as anticipation for the iPhone 5 continues to build.

Some of the biggest U.S companies found themselves at odds with U.S. regulators this week, AT&T and Verizon squared off against each other, and a massive leak of personal information raised questions about how companies handle user data.

Verizon informed wireless customers Tuesday night that its data was accessed as part of the Epsilon security breach, the latest company among dozens in what may be one of the biggest e-mail hacking attacks in U.S. history.

A security breach at a marketing firm that potentially leaked millions of e-mail addresses and names highlights the privacy risks that companies expose customers to through shoddy security.

Target is selling Apple's older iPhone 3GS model for $50 -- half its original price -- following AT&T's and Apple's move last week, as the market prepares for the next-generation of iPhones.

Target will add mobile phone centers to about 850 of its 1,743 stores by December, with a nationwide rollout expected by the middle of next year.