Technology

Hoffman Estates, Ill.-based Sears is placing all of its online tools on sale through a promotion called “Wow now!”

Customers received the news in their email inboxes Friday, as well as through Facebook, announcing an overstock on select tools with savings up to 75% off.

If all politics are local, Sarah Palin was by all measures the local girl up...

Las Vegas -- New this year to the National Hardware Show was the Pitch Tank, where inventors got two minutes to demonstrate their new products to a panel of three experts for some criticism and advice. But there was no Simon Cowell skewering the amateurs in the glass-walled booth near the Inventor’s Spotlight section. Kevin Harrington of ABC’s Shark Tank and chairman of TVGoods, along with two other product development specialists and marketers, offered mostly positive feedback to a cavalcade of hopeful candidates.

An auction to sell off the remaining inventory of Terre Haute, Ind.-based retailer Paitson Bros. Ace Hardware has been set for Dec. 18, according to the Tribune Star. 

New products from the 2012 National Hardware Show in Las Vegas had a tremendous variety of end users in mind. Here’s a small sample. 

Hardware co-op caught selling wiper fluid with higher VOCs....

The contest winner explained to fellow Ace owners why he couldn’t make a go of...

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) interpreted the 10.5% rise in August housing starts...