Business news: online retail businesses are becoming more expensive to run than traditional design stores, according to Bradford Shellhammer, who co-founded Fab.com and launched Bezar.com. More about It's now cheaper to open a traditional shop than an online store, says Fab co-founder
Interview: PCH is the $1 billion manufacturing company you've never heard of. With its acquisition of Fab.com, that could be about to change. Dezeen spoke to founder and CEO Liam Casey about his plans to do for design what Zara did for fashion. More about "We understand how to bring design products to market" says PCH founder
Business news: design e-commerce platform Fab.com has been bought by manufacturing company PCH, which plans to sell unique products alongside the website's existing offering of furniture and accessories. More about Fab acquired by PCH to create "the Netflix of design"
Exclusive: Fab.com co-founder Bradford Shellhammer is to return to online design retail with a new venture called Bezar (+ interview). More about Fab co-founder returns with Bezar, a new marketplace for emerging designers
News: Fab.com is reportedly in acquisition talks with electronics development company PCH International, which could see the online design retailer sold for a fraction of its earlier valuation. More about Fab.com in reported million acquisition talks
Maison&Objet 2014: Hem, the brand launched by online retailer Fab.com and Finnish design company One Nordic, has revealed its first collection of customisable furniture (+ slideshow). More about Fab.com and One Nordic reveal first collection under new design brand Hem
News: following online retailer Fab's acquisition of Scandinavian design brand One Nordic, the two companies have announced the creation of a new furniture brand called Hem that will sell products by Form Us With Love. More about Fab and One Nordic announce new design brand Hem
News: furniture e-commerce company Fab has bought Finnish design brand One Nordic in a move to expand its catalogue of original designs and European business. More about Online furniture retailer Fab buys design-led manufacturer One Nordic
News: online design retailer Fab has changed its strategy yet again, ending its relationship with external designers and brands across Europe and instead focusing on selling its own custom-designed furniture. More about Fab "taking a break" from selling designers' work in Europe
Interview: Bradford Shellhammer, founder and chief design officer of Fab, explains why the company dropped the "flash sales" model to become both a manufacturer and online retailer of design. In an interview with Dezeen he discusses how Fab is disrupting the industry, how it can help designers and how it "absolutely" wants to open physical stores. More about "Fab did rely too heavily on kitsch" says co-founder Bradford Shellhammer
Dezeen promotion: online retailer Fab is calling for designers to present their work to a panel of experts at The Conran Shop Marylebone on 19 September, during London Design Festival, for the chance to put their designs into production. More about Call for designers to enter Fab's Disrupting Design competition in London
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with online design store Fab to offer readers the chance to win a range of bold luggage and travel accessories from the new Fab luggage collection. More about Competition: a range of Fab luggage to be won
News: online design retailer Fab.com has announced it will design its own range of furniture and homeware to be sold alongside its existing inventory. More about Fab.com to design its own range of products
News: online design retailer Fab.com is closing its UK site and relocating up to 35 staff from London to Berlin as part of a move to create a single European e-commerce site based in Germany. More about Fab.com launches "shopfront for the whole of Europe"
Dezeen Wire: just two months after launch, flash-sales site llustre.com has been taken over by American rival Fab to become Fab UK. More about llustre.com becomes Fab UK