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App Store for the Mac: Will It Be a Home Run?

The iPhone and iPad app store has been a huge success for Apple. Can Steve Jobs make lightning strike a third time -- on the Mac? Here's why it may be a little more difficult.READ»

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Getting Square: A Guide to the New Mobile Credit Card Payment System for iPhone and Android

Anyone--and I do mean anyone--can sign up to use Square and begin accepting credit card payments. Here's how it works.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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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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Does H&R Block Do Well by Doing Badly?

Fast Company likes to cover businesses that do well by doing good. But sometimes the opposite is equally true. Earlier this year, the nation's leading tax-preparing company paid $4.85 million to settle a class-action lawsuit ...READ»

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Business As Usual?

"To survive in this age, individuals and organizations must examine what they're doing to earn a living and ask themselves three questions:" From Daniel H. Pink, author A Whole New MindREAD»

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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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Listener Runner-up: Intuit

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

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The Permatemps Contretemps

It is the dark side of Free Agent Nation. Here's how the mix of Microsoft's human-resources policies, unwilling temps, high-tech union organizers, and "permatemp" agents produced unintended consequences -- and a cautionary tale.READ»

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Relaunch!

Unit of OneREAD»

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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»

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Tax Code

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