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PayPal’s In-Store Payments System Hits Home Depot Stores Across U.S.

Lauren Goode in Commerce on February 28 at 11:18 am PT

After a test phase, online payments giant PayPal is rolling out its “offline” in-store payments system across the U.S.

June 30 Deadline for Apple Subscriptions

John Paczkowski in News on February 15, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Apple’s new subscription plan has a compliance deadline. June 30, according to a memo sent to publishers earlier this year.

Google Turns Its Local Eyes to Groupon–But Who Else Could Enter Bidding?

Kara Swisher in News on November 19, 2010 at 12:38 am PT

According to multiple sources close to the situation, Google is in discussions with local deals powerhouse Groupon about buying it. Without making the requisite joke about the deal of the day, sources said the price being considered is certainly no discount–well above the $2 billion to $3 billion that Yahoo offered Groupon in acquisition talks that took place earlier this year. But sources cautioned that the talks are not complete, and could also end up without any result, as the Yahoo discussions did.

Shopkick Checks In With Target–CEO Cyriac Roeding Talks About Social Shopping

Kara Swisher in News on November 16, 2010 at 10:28 am PT

The idea of being rewarded for being a consumer is getting a lot of heat of late, as retailers seek to take advantage of the fast-moving social phenom among consumers, especially young ones. Thus, a wide range of efforts to combine location-based mobile apps with purchasing, both online and offline. Today, another company in the space, shopkick, announced it had added another store–Minneapolis-based Target–to its list of retailers deploying its platform and mobile app that gives you points for simply walking in a store.

Yahoo's M&A Strategy–Maybe Local Commerce Rather Than Content (Hello, Groupon!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 10:08 am PT

It’s no secret in Silicon Valley dealmaking circles that Yahoo has been looking at what insiders have called a “transformative” acquisition to jumpstart the company. And while many think that has to mean grabbing one of the big content companies–such as AOL or Demand Media–right in Yahoo’s wheelhouse, sources said it is actually training its attention on, drum roll, commerce. That would be local commerce, most specifically, companies such as the hot start-up Groupon, which dominates social couponing.