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»
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»
Eating out is a way of life in New York City. But where do people spend their money, and how much do they shell out? In short: Expensive, old-timey places, and more money than you expected.
The financial site Bundle -- which is ...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»
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»
Mint is a robot that propels itself around your floors, mopping up dirt at the press of a button -- which means that even really lazy slobs don't have an excuse anymore.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»
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»
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»
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»
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»
