9 posts and columns on Home Depot

PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns

in Commerce on February 6 at 7:00 am PT

PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
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Here’s How PayPal Is Pitching Mobile Payments to Major Retailers (Slideshow)

in Commerce on February 6 at 6:30 am PT

Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
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eBay’s John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments

in Commerce on January 19 at 6:00 am PT

In an interview, eBay’s CEO provides a few details about the company’s mobile payments trial with Home Depot, and how it would expand from five to 51 stores across the country over the next week.
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Picking the Brightest, Most Efficient Bulb

in The Digital Solution on January 17 at 3:41 pm PT

Katie offers a brief guide to the latest energy-efficient light bulbs.
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Sears’s Softer Side Includes iPads and Free Wi-Fi

in Commerce on October 17, 2011 at 2:00 pm PT

Sears has joined Lowe’s, Home Depot and other major retailers in rolling out iPads and iPods to assist employees in stores nationwide.
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Apple’s iPad Already Replacing Cash Registers by the Bushel

in Commerce on August 23, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Mobile devices — and especially Apple products — have become fairly mainstream at U.S. retail locations. Today, Pacific Sunwear announced a significant deployment of mobile devices in its stores.
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Demand CEO Richard Rosenblatt Talks Panda

in Media on May 9, 2011 at 6:29 am PT

Last week, after he turned in better-than-expected earnings and tried to explain to a worried Wall Street how the search algorithm changes at Google, called Panda, were significant but not devastating to his business, BoomTown had a short phone interview with Demand Media CEO Richard Rosenblatt.

Padopolis Wants to Move the Billion-Dollar Retail Catalog Business to the iPad

in Commerce on April 20, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Instead of clogging up your mail and piling up uncontrollably on your coffee table, Padopolis wants to deliver the same content you’d find in a catalog in electronic form–starting with an iPad application. Catalog Spree, which launched yesterday on the iPad, aggregates a number of catalogs in one place, similarly to a mall, where consumers can go to one place and find multiple stores.

MySpace Welcomes Media Link (and Wenda Millard!): The Complete Internal Memo

in Media on August 20, 2009 at 12:55 pm PT

As Kara Swisher just reported, News Corp.’s MySpace has hired media consulting firm Media Link, along with Media Link President Wenda Harris Millard, to overhaul the social network’s sales group. Here’s the complete internal memo from CEO Owen Van Natta, which describes Millard’s position as head of the ad sales group as an “interim” one, and announces that former sales boss Jeff Berman is out.