The online shoe company cofounded by Kim Kardashian announces it's scrapping the monthly subscription model and adding lingerie and dress lines. The moves reveal its true secret sauce. ShoeDazzle started out as one of the new generation of consumer startups centered around a monthly subscription model: Sign up for the service and you get a new pair of pumps (or wedges, or boots, or stilettos, or…) every month for a mere $39.95. And they were celebrity-endorsed, no less.

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Boston Scientific Corp. will acquire closely held company Cameron Health Inc., which has developed an alternative to traditional defibrillators. Boston Scientific will pay $150 million upfront and an additional potential $150 million upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Cameron's S-ICD wireless system, the only commercially available subcutaneous implantable defibrillator. The agreement also calls for up to an additional $1.05 billion in revenue-based milestone payments over a six-year period after FDA approval.
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