Most personal finance sites let consumers look but not touch--they can view bills but not pay them. Tech startups and a few brave banks are slowly trying to change all of that.READ»
Did ya hear? Infographics are the rage these days. But the downside is that the quality of infographics out there is generally horrible. Visual.ly, a startup, is hoping to solve that problem for anyone that wants to hire a good ...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»
Inflation is an iron law of economics. But not everything rises in price
over time: When people talk about "rising standards of living," they're
referring in part to the fact that over time, lots of things actually
get cheaper, ...READ»
That is the question in Silicon Valley as the acquisitions market heats up. And with it, another head scratcher: Are acquisitions good for anyone?READ»
Mint.com's data shows that American consumers are finally waking up from economic hibernation, just in time for the biggest shopping day of the year.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»
