Longtime Goth-teen store fave Hot Topic (HOTT) rocked right through the first year of the downturn. Then, fickle teens turned on the 650-store chain, shrinking its sales for a year straight, including ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder announced on Thursday afternoon that 20-year-old guard Nikola Topic has been diagnosed with cancer. Topic, a Serbian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City ...

Trendy clothing store chain Hot Topic is closing one of its four Sacramento-area locations. The retailer will shut the doors of its store at Sunrise Mall shopping center in Citrus Heights in March, ...

The internet didn't just nuke the traditional music industry — it's been wreaking havoc on physical retail locations with increasing effect. Weathering all of this is Hot Topic, which, according to a ...

Millions of customers of Hot Topic have been informed that their personal data was compromised during an October data breach at the American retailer. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), the breach notification ...

Hot Topic shoppers may have had some of their personal information accessed by hackers after the clothing company announced a breach. The company identified "suspicious login activity to certain Hot ...

Many associate the stores with goth, emo, punk, or grunge. But Hot Topic has grown to become much more than its ‘90s persona. It’s evolved into a pop culture fashion leader and one of the ...

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