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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»

Listener Runner-up: Intuit

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

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Director of Great People

Job Titles of the Future: Barb KarlinREAD»

Values Don't Change

The last two years at Intuit have brought tumultuous, deep-seated changes. But in periods of transformation, what stays the same? "Values," says Scott Cook. "The best companies stand for something. In our case, it is to do right by ...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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Think Ahead: Scott Cook

A dispatch from PC Forum 2001.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»

Ivan Glickman
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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»

Ivan Glickman
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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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Interview with Kris Halvorsen and Jennifer Hall of Intuit by Telle Whitney, CEO of Anita Borg Institute

Recently I had the chance to speak with several people at Intuit, including Jennifer Hall, their VP of Human Resources, as well as Kris Halvorsen, their Chief Innovation Officer. The reason we spoke was that I’ve been very ...READ»

Ivan Glickman

How Intuit Keeps the Pulse on Tax Advice to Help Customers

TaxAlmanac is a free resource for tax professionals, a wiki created by Intuit to help them stay current. In return the company gets free tips and advice from a roster of tax specialists that help improve its products for customers. ...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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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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Between The Lines

The stories behind this issue's stories.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»

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»

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The Three " Reals"

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

John Doerr's Startup Manual

If you could ask only one person for advice about starting a company or joining a startup, chances are you'd pick John Doerr.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»

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Building a New Nest

Smart companies are launching niche online communities--and getting out of the way.READ»

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Home Offices That Work for You

Going home doesn't mean leaving work behind.READ»

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Operating Values

Would anyone like to share their company's operating values?  Do you have written values?  How does your company use its values?  Do these values set the tone for your company culture? One of my favorite set of Company ...READ»

The Management Express

You want MBA smarts -- but without the MBA commitment. Look no further.READ»

Social Responsibility Gone Bad

One non-profit lobbies for tax-reform. Another non-profit airs a commercial criticizing the powers-that-be for an electricity shortage in California. Seems legit, right? But, what do you think when it turns out these non-profit lobby ...READ»

Built to Flip - Where Do You Come Down?

Has Built to Flip overthrown Built to Last? Should it? Fast Company asked five commentators to tell us where they come down on those questions -- and to offer strong opinions that will spark debate.READ»