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InDinero Adds Automated Financial Forecasts for Businesses
InDinero wants to help you predict the future of your business.
When we covered the launch of the Y Combinator-funded business finance app in early July, co-founder Jessica Mah told us that automated financial forecasts were in the pipeline, and the startup recently delivered that promised feature.
InDinero Launch Gives Small Businesses Real-Time Financial Tool
A new Web application launching today promises to be the small business answer to Mint.com.
InDinero, a four-person startup funded in part by venture firm YCombinator, offers a real-time financial dashboard that hooks into a company's existing bank accounts and displays key business metrics like cash balance, income, spending and profit, among many other things.
First iGoogle Banking Gadget Released By Fidelity
Fidelity, one of the world's largest financial service institutions, has just launched the first iGoogle secure banking gadget for use by their tens of millions of customers. With the new Fidelity Secure Gadget, customers no longer have to visit Fidelity.com or NetBenefits.com in order to check their account balances - they can now do so right from their own iGoogle homepage.
Mobile Messaging Reaches Record-Breaking Numbers
Mobile messaging is experiencing a period of record growth, according to some figures released from VeriSign earlier this week. Looking at the numbers more closely, some interesting trends emerge. Those include the use of messaging for social and political change, marketing, such as that done by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's mobile campaign, and the use of mobile messaging for charitable donations. Other sectors experiencing significant increases are the enterprise and financial institutions. In those two areas alone, mobile messaging has seen a 115% increase in only a year's time, and much of that is thanks to the financial industry's adoption of the medium for business to consumer communication.
Consumers Want to Use Mobile Banking, But Few Actually Do
According to the latest data from Compete, consumers are slowly warming up to the idea of mobile banking, but this growth is slowed by the fact that most users, even though they already use online tools to interact with their bank, never use their mobile devices to access the Internet. 72% of those who bank online never access the Internet from their mobile devices and only 8% do so more than 20 times per month. Because of this, it it no surprise that only 5% of online bankers use a mobile device to check their bank accounts.
Your Money in the Cloud: Personal Finance Tool Mint Comes Out of Beta
Given the state of the economy right now, keeping a close eye on your personal finances is becoming more of a necessity than ever before. Mint, the cloud-based personal finance tool that launched in September 2007 has now come out of beta and added a number of handy new features, including an IRA Rollover tool, and the ability to add custom categories to track your spending habits.
Who Really Uses Mint.com (And Other Banking 2.0) Services Anyway?
Given the U.S. economic crisis, people are looking for new and better ways to get a handle on their personal finances. We recently profiled 10 money management web applications that promise to do everything from analyzing your spending behavior to saving you money by negotiating lower rates on credit cards.
The proliferation of these types of apps would have you believe there's a big demand for web-based financial tools. But is there really? We would hope so, considering how their advanced technology can provide detailed analysis about your money (or lack thereof). However, we secretly wondered if the only people logging in to sites like Mint.com and the like are the young kids of Gen Y. Do adults with mortgages, credit card debt, and 401Ks even know how to use these tools?
Weekly Wrapup, 15-19 September 2008
It's time for our weekly summary of Web Technology news, products and trends. This week we surveyed the leading online banking products and 10 recommended photo sharing sites. We also checked out a new 'deep web' search tool and reported on Joost's move to the browser. Our prediction question this week was about the controversial 'Twitter for enterprise' app Yammer - check out the results below. On the trends side, we looked into a report about "super influencers", gave you some suggestions for quality social media consultants, reported on the latest Tim Berners-Lee foundation, and analyzed how the economy shake-ups this week affect the tech sector. Last but not least, we bring you the latest from our new Enterprise Channel.
Banking 2.0: Money Management Moves to The Cloud
There was a time when managing finances from your computer meant you had to use desktop software. Today, that's no longer the case. There are now a number of applications that let you do your banking in the cloud, a trend we've dubbed "banking 2.0."
These sites aren't just simplified versions of our former desktop apps, either. Instead, they offer a number of features that take advantage of their "always on" status. Forget downloading updates and typing in your transactions line-by-line, these new banking 2.0 sites can offer you better insight into your financial situation with no additional effort on your part beyond just logging in.
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