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Tax Code

TurboTax and TaxCut make filing taxes easier in about the same ways.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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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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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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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»

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»

Conspiracy of Change

How do you overthrow a successful company? Intuit, one of the world's great software firms, was on the verge of losing its leadership position. Until it vowed to reinvent itself.READ»

The Breakup

Not So Fast: The Breakup

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

Listener Runner-up: Intuit

Intuit has many ears, open to the Voice of the Customer.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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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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Just Keep It Simple, Please

Click Here: Take control of your online life.READ»

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Return to Spender

While in an airport over the weekend, making a connecting flight, I saw a promotional stand for a product called NeatReceipts. A small, 12-ounce scanner scans up to six receipts a minute, and the accompanying software sizes and crops ...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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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»

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»

Congratulations, You're Promoted (Now What?)

The transition from team player to the leader can make -- or break -- your career. Here's Fast Company's six-point leadership guide.READ»

Doug Schrandt Financial Security

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Best Brands in the Land

According to a survey recently conducted by City Business Journals Network and Russell Marketing Research, the 10 brands best-known by American CEOs are as follows: UPS Dell Microsoft Sony Sam's Club Southwest ...READ»

Doug Schrandt - Focus on your finance

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Doug Schrandt - Focus on your finance

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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»

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»

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»