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Adaptu Aims To End Both Overspending, And The Exploding George Costanza Wallet

There are times when it would be great to have our own miniature Suze Orman in our heads, a voice of reason to talk us down from buying that 72-inch 3D HD LED TV that’s calling our name from across the showroom. Luckily, Adaptu has the solution. Their new app includes a predictive spending feature--and just in time for the holidays.READ»

How Mint Exec's New Company Will Teach All Employees To Teach Others

Training has traditionally been part of centralized departments—and the bane of everyone else. MindFlash is about to change that.READ»

Can Offermatic Deal With Groupon?

The automatic deals site's new tech brings an expanded platform. As of this moment, Google has not offered $6 billion to buy it. READ»

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Mint Launches Online Finance Game for Middle School Classrooms

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»

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Why Mint.com Founder Aaron Patzer Hated Quicken

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»

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First Look: Bundle's Savvy New Features Prove It's More Than Just a Pretty (Inter)face

This week, Bundle unveils its "Version 1.0" redesign, offering a host of new features including -- at last! -- the option to sync to multiple accounts.READ»

Wesabe Personal Finance Site Goes Broke; HelloWallet Fills Its Coffers

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»

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Use Bundle to Snoop on Your Neighbors' Finances

A new Web-finance tool helps you learn from a virtual peek inside your neighbors' credit-card bills.READ»

FiLife Goes Broke: Is There Any Personal Finance Hope for Generation Debt?

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»

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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Tiny Robots Doing Your House Chores

Forget the robocalypse: Remember the robot-laden utopian home of the future, as portrayed in the Jetsons and a thousand sci-fi shows? It's on its way, and surprisingly soon you'll find many a household task in the hands (claws?) of ...READ»

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Wanna Know How Your Neighbors Spend Their Money? It's All on Bundle.com

These days, there are few things more valuable than finding your virtual doppelganger--a "friend" who shares many, if not most, of your tastes and traits. On Last.fm, his scrobbles reveal catchy new songs. On Twitter, her tweets ...READ»

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Consumers Plan to Spend a Little More on Christmas Cheer This Year

Is this the end of the recession? Gallup's latest poll for projected Christmas gift spending shows that U.S. consumers may be about to spend a little more money than they did last year. Some $743 on average, versus a measly $639 in ...READ»

The iPhone 25

Here are the companies with the most iPhone buzz, the winningest apps, and the most popular platforms.READ»

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Data Mining the Mint.com Demographic

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»

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Mint's Founder Gets Control of Intuit's Personal Finance Division

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»

Mint Sells to Intuit for $170 Million, Will It Wither on the Vine?

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»

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Not So Fast: The Breakup

Why users are calling it quits with traditional software.READ»

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Easy Money: Mint.com CEO Aaron Patzer is Merging Personal Finance with Web 2.0

Aaron Patzer is taking on Quicken by merging personal finance with Web 2.0. Can he get twentysomethings to be smart with their cash? READ»