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Meet the Press tackled the issue Sunday, as did The New York Times with a spotlight on the Western Pennsylvania city of Johnstown.
The perpetrators are mining information from company websites and Facebook in order to appear legitimate when placing fraudulent orders for high-end items, the JSA warns.

The iD100, which is used to identify lab-grown diamonds even when they’re set in jewelry, is available for $3,995--for now.

The online retailer of mostly handcrafted things faces increasing competition from the Handmade section of Amazon.com.

Discover Financial Services CFO R. Mark Graf joins the retailer as longtime board member Dale W. Hilpert retires.

A present from her brother-in-law, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore the engraved 18-karat gold Cartier timepiece for decades.

The diamond miner and marketer sold $530 million in rough diamonds in its fifth sales cycle of the year, down 6 percent when compared with the same period last year.

Retailers who utilize the Thinkspace website platform will be able to easily promote JFC to their customers.

It will take place July 24 at the Javits Center at the same time as the JA New York Summer show.

The longtime Tourneau executive joins the online pre-owned marketplace, effective immediately.

Through “Lovemonster,” Amish Shah wants to change the conversation the industry is having with consumers about lab-grown diamonds.

The grant from the Accredited Gemologists Association will help fund his cutting-edge work on origin of color in diamonds.

“Classic Parisienne” hoops and the self-stacking “Double Symphony” were among the pieces the Italian jewelry brand brought to Couture.

These were the five most-read stories on National Jeweler last week, according to Google Analytics.

Fosun Gold has put in an offer for the company that tops the one made by the miner’s biggest investor, Pallinghurst Resources.
Jim Sensenbrenner’s “No Regulation Without Representation” Act would prohibit states from imposing sales tax collection requirements on businesses that have no physical presence in the state.

One is a 105-carat D color, Type IIa diamond while the other is a yellow stone that weighs nearly 152 carats.

Sears will lay off more than 400 while HBC, which operates Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, will eliminate about 2,000 positions.
The International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research said it is the first device in the industry that can test multiple stones set in jewelry at once.

The app has the same functionality as the diamond company’s website, plus a voice recognition feature.

He has resigned after five years at the helm of the online diamond seller and will be replaced the former head of Target.com.

For years, its owner thought it to be a piece of costume jewelry. Now, she’s almost a million dollars richer.

The boards of Jewelers of America and the Diamond Council of America have approved an agreement that aligns the two organizations.

The Diamond Producers Association will have a lot more money to promote diamonds to millennials in Q4, the bulk of which will be spent in the U.S.















