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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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Wabi Sabi, Wesabe

A new generation of financial behavior tools is borne from the personal financial management companies of yesterday.READ»

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Alex Payne, One of Twitter's First Employees, Deposits Himself at Banksimple

One of Twitter's earliest employees joins a startup intent on simplifying the way you bank.READ»

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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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Best Digital Tools for the Paperless Tax Return

You've got less than a week to turn that pile of odd-sized W-2's, 1099's, and paper receipts into an income tax return that won't break the bank or get you audited. This April there are more free, cheap, online tools that can help ...READ»

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Most Innovative Companies - Finance

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SBS Group Spreads Holiday Cheer

Woodbridge, New Jersey-- December 21, 2009 - On Thursday, December 17th, SBS Group donated presents, gift cards, and toys to mothers and children seeking refuge from domestic violence. SBS Group, a leading technology consulting firm, ...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»

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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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Doug Schrandt Financial Security

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Doug Schrandt - Focus on your finance

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Not So Fast: The Breakup

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

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Work/Life: TurboTax - crunching words as important as crunching numbers

Last post I detailed my 24-hour worryfest over a TurboTax glitch. It turned out no more sinister than a doh! from deep in the bowels of Intuit HQ. The TurboTax damage control unit are all over me now. Someone saw my ...READ»

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Work/Life: Will the real Turbotax please stand up?

April 9: See UPDATE at the end of this article. +++ With tax time approaching, spammers, scammers and phishermen are kicking it up a notch - with kid leather toecaps. Not only are their fake phishing sites getting ...READ»

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Work/Life: Will the real Turbotax please stand up?

With tax time approaching, spammers, scammers and phishermen are kicking it up a notch - with kid leather toecaps. Not only are their fake phishing sites getting slicker and sexier, they've even got customer service departments to ...READ»

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Accounting: Beyond the Basics

From monthly profit-and-loss statements to annual reports, accounting is just basic business hygiene, right? Wrong. Read on to see how your business can use financial information as a strategic tool to improve day-to-day business results.READ»

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Richard Morochove -- How Small Businesses<br></br> Are Thinking About Technology

The president and founder of a Toronto-based computer consulting firm discusses how companies are beginning to use financial systems as a business advantage.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»

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Sneak Peek

What: Intuit's Quicken for Health Care When: Mid-2007 Intuit wants to kill the confusing medical bill--and, even better, the supremely confusing "this is not a bill" explanation of medical benefits. Quicken for Health Care is the ...READ»

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Case Studies

You asked us for real examples of how people keep the business side of Me, Inc., running smoothly. So here's some sound advice (and nitty gritty details) from other free agents.READ»

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The Beauty of Simplicity

Marissa Mayer, who keeps Google's home page pure, understands that less is more. Other tech companies are starting to get it, too. Here's why making things simple is the new competitive advantage.READ»

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Listener Runner-up: Intuit

Intuit has many ears, open to the Voice of the Customer.READ»

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Fast Talk: Brand Revivers

The only thing harder than developing a hot brand is turning around a once-popular one. We spoke to five brand stewards going through the process of breathing life into iconic names to see how they're doing it.READ»

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Sudden Impact

There are few career moments as exciting -- and these days, as perilous -- as taking over the top job at a company, business unit, or department. But what exactly do you do once you're in charge? How do you jumpstart growth in a slow-growth environment? How do you clean up the mess you inherited? How do you unleash big ideas in cautious times? From the CEO of a high-profile software company to the new owners of a 127-year-old restaurant, four leaders offer 8 tactics to make a sudden impact.READ»