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personal finance
Quicken Online To Be Shut Down Next Year, Accounts Merged With Mint
When news broke back in September that Intuit, the company behind Quicken, was buying personal finance website Mint, everyone wondered how the two services would co-exist. The worst case scenario was that Mint would be absorbed somehow into Intuit's in-house competitor, Quicken Online. Thankfully, it looks like the opposite will happen. More » -
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What's The Over/Under On Mint Starting To Suck Now That Intuit Bought Them?
I blanched when I saw the subject line, "Mint.com to be acquired by Intuit, maker of Quicken." More like "Mint.com to be acquired by Intuit, makers of crap," I thought. Judging by your comments, I don't blanch alone. More » -
mergers and acquisitions
Intuit Will Buy Mint.com For $170 Million
No longer wishing to compete with Mint.com, Quicken-maker Intuit has decided to buy it. The AP says that the company plans to keep its current offering, Quicken Online, but that it will be aimed at customers who also use its Quicken desktop software. Mint.com will become the company's primary personal finance website.
Are you cool with this?
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personal finance
LendingTree Launches Financial Advice Website
MoneyRight, a new website from LendingTree, seems at first aimed to take on Mint.com in the easy-to-read/use financial snapshot category of web services. However, it also offers financial advice based on your current situation and future goals. More » -
above and beyond
Mint Alerts Users Whose Accounts Were Fraudulently Charged
A couple days ago, we wrote about a fake company called Adele that was fraudulently charging 25 cents to credit cards. Personal finance site Mint heard about the scam too, and they reviewed their users' records and notified them if they found a fraudulent charge. More » -
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Mint Launches iPhone App
The popular personal-finance dashboard site Mint.com launched a free iPhone app. Now you can enjoy the ease and power of Mint anywhere your$99$197 Walmart phone goes. Screenshots inside... More » -
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What's The Best Personal Finance Software?
Slate tested a slew of personal-finance tools recently, and Mint and Quicken Online were the top two winners, with Mint only a point behind. Besides the advertising disguised as "ways to save," one area where Mint lost points was not being able to create custom categories. Three days later, Mint announced that they were enabling custom categories. So, in a do-over, Mint would probably win. Plus it's free. UPDATE: Quicken Online just launched a basic tier of service for free. The dance continues!
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Make Converting Bank Transactions Easier With Sites Like Wesabe Or Mint
One unpleasant surprise about switching to USAA from Washington Mutual is that I could no longer download all my transactions in .CSV format.When I was with WaMu, this made it very easy to import all my banking into my tricked out Excel sheet I use to manage my finances.USAA only lets you download in Quicken or Microsoft Money's proprietary formats. Cutting and pasting the transactions as they appear on the website, even in Print mode, still is less than perfect.What I found out though is you can use a personal finance management site like Mint or Wesabe to do most of the grunt work for you. UPDATE: Reader Stephen pointed out there is a handy link at the bottom of the USAA page that lets you export as .CSV. I didn't see this link because I was looking at the "download fund activity link," which doesn't have a .CSV option. More » -
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Mint.com's Plans For Portfolio Recommendations
I asked Mint.com whether they would be adding some features to their new investment tracking tool similar to what they do with credit cards and banks. When you add your credit cards and banks to Mint, it has a section where they recommend different credit cards to switch to and show you how much savings or lower APR you can get. In response, CEO Aaron Patzer said that in the future they will identify the lowest cost brokerage for you based on how often you trade and with how much money, as well as, and, this is very important, exposing management fees and expense ratios.Very cool. Investors could really benefit by such transparent access to investing-rleated feesFor a good perspective on how fees can really chew up your nest egg, read our post, "How Your 401(k) Is Ripping You Off" -
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Review Of Mint.com's New Investment-Tracking Features
I got to check out personal finance management site Mint.com's new investment-tracking component before the private beta launches tomorrow. You can now add Brokerage, IRA, 401k and 529 assets. The two biggest things it offers are line graphs, and a way to see all the fees, dividends, deposits and withdrawals in one, clear, organized window. Unlike with the credit card tracking, they don't seem to be making any suggestions about how you might save money by switching to a different investment firm. You also can't yet push assets between accounts through Mint. As before, you will have to give up your username and password to your various financial services to let Mint scrape the data. The new brokerage features are hardly mind-blowing, but by having investment-tracking now Mint can basically be your entire financial dashboard, you just can't touch all the levers yet. Sexy screenshots, inside... More » -
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Chase Rep Cancels Credit Card Because Of Mint
A hyper-vigilant Chase CSR canceled a woman's credit card and issued her a new one when she called in to confirm her interest rate, because Mint was showing a slightly higher rate. A Mint representative confirms that "while we can generally get pretty good info about APR, APR can vary widely by customer & there won't always be a 100% match (that's why we allow customers to edit their account information)." More » -
money
Why Do You Hate The Dollar Coin?
Our beloved U.S. Mint has apparently redesigned the dollar coin to feature a rotating slate of Presidents. Each President gets a three-month stint on the coin. On Thursday, James Madison, our 4th Chief Executive, took his rightful place on the golden slab - but nobody seemed to care. Why? More » -
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Mint.com - A New Free Personal Finance Management Site
The free personal finance management site Mint.com opened to the public today.
Via a pleasing interface, Mint allows users to add their credit card and account information, then autosyncing with your financial institutions to grab every single one of your transactions. Each purchase is automatically categorized by type, a significant timesaver when getting started with a budget. From there, Mint tracks your spending habits, identifies areas you can find savings, and allows a complete at-a-glance overview of your personal finances, along with a slew of other features.
Looks to be a great site for getting an easy handle on your money.
Mint.com [Official Site]
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