The story behind Intuit Fasal, a free SMS-based service that provides rural farmers with real-time price information, which has blossomed into a program with more than 500,000 users and huge effects on the lives of Indian farmers.READ»
A big chunk of change dropped into the mobile payments company’s lap this week when Kleiner Perkins signed on as an investor. Square's COO, Keith Rabois, tells us where the dough will go.READ»
01 / PayPal
For leading the charge on digital money. In November 2009, PayPal made the radical move to open up its system to third-party developers and allow them to integrate its payment system into their Web sites, mobile ...READ»
Electronic payment firm VeriFone launched a surprise attack on competitor and hot mobile-payment startup Square today, with CEO Douglas Bergeron penning an open letter chastising what he says are Square's security flaws. Is this just a bold PR move, or does Square actually have security loopholes to close?READ»
Armed with iPhones capable of processing mobile transactions, Girls Scouts in Southern California will soon be knocking on doors, ready to take your order. Don't even try telling them you don't have any cash on hand. READ»
Was it a good year or a bad year for small business? It really depends on who you ask. More importantly, will 2011 be better or worse? What are the trends saying? With so many questions, we look to the experts in small business economy for the answers.READ»
Intuit-owned Mint.com, the service that made budgeting a fun task, has partnered with Scholastic to offer free personal-finance education in 30,000 classrooms for 100,000 students. Unfortunately, says Mint, teachers aren't up to the task.READ»
Before being acquired by Quicken's maker Intuit, Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer had some serious frustrations with the product--and isn't afraid to express them.READ»
Wesabe, a personal finance competitor to Mint.com
that emphasized its community features, ran out of money. CEO Mark Hedlund wrote in his farewell message that the site had been operating on starvation rations recently, which is ...READ»
The abrupt shuttering of FiLife, a well-known personal finance destination backed by IAC and Dow Jones Interactive, has loosed speculation that the site was paying for clicks to reach its eye-popping 3.4 million monthly unique ...READ»
Mint is already aggregating data from its 1.5 million users and mining it for personal spending trends. Now the newly-acquired company is planning to sell that data on a case-by-case basis.READ»
Yesterday, we reported that popular personal finance site Mint.com would be sold to Intuit for $170 million, just a few weeks after Founder and CEO Aaron Patzer closed a fresh $14 million round of "preemptive" funding. "We could have ...READ»
Writing about personal finance systems we once likened Intuit's Quicken to Old Spice and spiky start-up Mint to Axe Bodyspray. Now Mint's success is being bought up by Intuit--will the smell of Old Spice overwhelm all else?
The ...READ»
Generation Y (the young men and women born after 1977) are different
from other generations in many respects, from their political views to
the careers they choose (or don't choose). Their presence in the
workplace is truly ...READ»
