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»
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»
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»
As the quest to improve America's health-care system continues, the tech crowd is ready to offer its own prescription: Apply the fundamentals of Web 2.0 (consumer-focused tools; crowd-sourced, minable data; robust community) to the ...READ»
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»
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»
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»
Before I used computer-aided design to create products, I had pencils. Before I had pencils, I had Legos. Before Legos, crayons. Before crayons, blocks. And with these tools, I have always been a designer.
The act of exploring ...READ»
Whatever happened to personal digital assistants (PDAs)? You remember -- those devices that turned your wonderful penmanship into gibberish, cost nearly as much as a new computer, and still couldn't store a spreadsheet.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»
The Y2K computer bug will be your problem if you PC doesn't know what year it is. Don't waste time waiting for your company's techies to bail you out. Here's how to help yourself.READ»
Intelligence and common sense are sometimes divorced from each other, and common sense - like a Stussy T-shirt - never goes out of fashion. The names have been removed to protect the guilty.
I remember meeting with a partner in an ...READ»
I grew up in northern Virginia, about 10 miles from AOL headquarters. At age 15, I taught myself Java and C++. At age 16, during two summers, I worked for the now-dead boom startup Tidalwave Telephone (at various times also named ...READ»
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»
Now that computing's gone palm-size, the question is this: Which palm's on top? Here's a handy guide to the top of the palms - and add-ons to make them handier.READ»
People around the world are radically changing their attitudes towards saving and spending, and alternative financial services sites are reaping the benefits. That was the message from the young ...READ»
