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As Tax Day Approaches, More Seek Accountants Online
The month of April begins tomorrow and for businesses and individuals in the United States, that means there's only two more weeks until the deadline for filing your federal tax returns.
As the deadline approaches, a growing number of businesses are turning to the Web to not only do their filing, but also to find accountants. The demand for online accountants has risen by 90% over last year, according to data released by oDesk, the job outsourcing site.
Quicken Online to Get Shut Down This Weekend, Replaced With Mint.com
It's been almost a year since personal finance startup Mint.com was acquired by Intuit, who this weekend will officially shut down Quicken Online and direct its users to Mint.com.
Quicken Online will be shuttered on Sunday, August 29, according to a note on the product's login screen. It will be replaced with Mint.com, where users will need to set up a new account if they do not already have one.
RWW Live: Online Personal Finance
You can't turn on the TV, visit Yahoo Finance or pick up the Wall Street Journal without hearing about the economic crisis we're in. It's caused most of us to step back and look at our own financial situation. In the next episode of RWW Live, to be broadcasted live at 3.30pm PST Monday (6.30pm EST), we look at how you can use Web tools to improve your personal finances. We have executives from Mint, Wesabe and Tip'd joining us.
You can tune into the show, and interact with us via the chat, by clicking here. You can also use the Calliflower Facebook app to tune in and participate.
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.
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.
Online Accounting: State of the Market
Accounting software for small business and personal use is increasingly moving from the desktop to online. However, compared to other office software, this transition to online has been relatively slow. Partly that's due to user reticence: writing a document online and sharing it with others (via Google Docs, Office Live, Zoho, or whatever you use) is one thing. Entering sensitive financial information into your browser is harder to adjust to.
The New Mint.com Launches: Site Redesigned, But Still No Data Upload
When Mint.com launched, they were taking a big risk - would people trust a web app to manage their finances online? Web 2.0 apps don't necessarily have a reputation as offering hardened security. However, Mint's efforts to prove they were safe and trustworthy won people over as did their easy-to-use personal finance tools. Today, Mint.com serves nearly 400,000 users, manages over $12 billion in transactions, and has saved $100 million+ for its users. However, one problem the site has struggled with was keeping its users informed as to all the new features of its product. Today, the Mint.com site gets an overhaul to specifically address this issue.
Strands Brings Recommendation Technology to Banking
Strands, the recommendation and lifestreaming service we've written about here before, announced a much anticipated deal this morning that will put it in the driver's seat for financial recommendations served up to millions of online banking customers around the world. The company's recommendation test-case in music is no longer all they will be known for around the world.
Customers of Spanish bank BBVA will now be offered recommended products and services, individual and anonymized aggregate analytics and personalized goal setting and alert services, all based on their banking activities.
Brighter Planet: Easy Data Tracking to Reduce Your Eco-Impact
Brighter Planet is a venture backed financial service that uses an innovative web interface to help you track and reduce your carbon footprint. Just like hybrid car owners obsess about the fluctuating MPG displays in their cars, Brighter Planet believes it will be compelling to show people visible progress online concerning their personal ecological impact.
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