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Sears Holdings, which owns Sears and Kmart stores, announced this week that the company would soon enter the digital video marketplace by selling and renting videos on Sears.com and Kmart.com. The new service, dubbed Alphaline Entertainment, is scheduled to go live later this year on numerous...

This week Walmart made news by purchasing VUDU, a video on demand service that allows users to rent and purchase more than 16,000 movies through an Internet connected Blu-Ray player or Web enabled HDTV. The purchase is a win for Walmart, which needs to compensate for falling DVD sales, but an...

It reportedly is a growing trend: people desperately trying to increase income to stave off foreclosure by renting out one or more rooms in their own homes. In a telephone interview with WalletPop, Sharleen Kilgore, of California-based Project Sentinel, a non-profit agency that offers free housing...

Starting Friday, Jan. 22 you'll be able to rent movies on YouTube for $4. To start, YouTube will only be offering five movies from the Sundance Film Festival, but the offerings will expand in the coming weeks. These five movies will be available for a 48-hour rental period until Jan. 31. The...

The buzz around the Web this week is that video streaming giant YouTube is in talks with movie studios to start renting movies in the near future. Even though YouTube isn't known so much for video quality as it is video quantity it could provide an exciting new ability to consumers. If YouTube...

From tuxedos to DVDs and cars, renting something for the short term makes a lot of sense.For college students spending the annual nationwide average of $700 to $1,100 for textbooks, Chegg.com and sites such as bookrenter.com offer textbook rentals by the quarter or semester, saving students...

Keeping your car in good condition doesn't have to be an expensive endeavor. In fact, if you can tell the difference between a screwdriver and a socket, plenty of the routine maintenance on cars can be done without much hassle.I used RepairPal.com, a repair cost estimation website, to check the...

The local newspaper recently published a list of delinquent tax properties for our county, which painted a telling portrait of the local economy. The list, which takes up two thirds of a page and includes over 600 properties, wasn't just made up of individuals threatened with losing their homes;...

During the Depression, it was so common for homeowners to share housing costs by renting rooms to strangers that a whole romantic milieu arose from the practice, with teenage (or, in Lolita's case, younger) girls falling for the remote, lonely, mysterious older men who shared a kitchen table with...

The recession and collapse of the housing market may have one bright spot for animal lovers. As the owners of houses and apartments become more motivated to find renters, more are considering allowing pets.I talked last week with Mike Torchia, president of Healthy Pet Nation, a Los Angeles-based...