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Intuit Completes Acquisition of Mint.com
By Aaron Patzer, VP and General Manager
New VP and GM, Aaron Patzer
This week, Mint.com and Quicken will come together into one organization, the Personal Finance Group at Intuit, where I will be the new Vice President and General Manager.
In the past, you may have heard me say things like “Quicken isn’t quick enough”. I stand by all the things I’ve said when Quicken was a competitor – there is much to improve in Quicken going forward. I like to think that the great improvement we’ve already seen in Quicken 2010 was at least in part inspired by the competition of the past few years.
What I couldn’t say in the past, as a rival, I’ll say now. Quicken desktop is the best tool out there for handling your investments. It does tax-lot accounting, time-weighted returns, and has unparalleled accuracy and depth in this area, making it a good fit for someone with many assets. Quicken has great tax functionality, like the ability to export medical or business expenses to make calculating your deductions easy. Even Quicken Online has a few features we’d love to add to Mint.com – the ability to track cash and outstanding checks more easily, and import historic data.
In the future, everything that’s good about Mint.com will be incorporated into Quicken desktop, and vice versa. Over the next year we’ll be incorporating better categorization technology in Quicken, so that you see exactly where you money is going, with less effort. We’ll be adding a new “savings engine” in Quicken that looks at all of your financial accounts, and finds products with better interest rates and fewer fees. With this savings engine, you’ll have a software “advisor” that lets you know when it’s time to refinance your mortgage, or switch to a different savings account that yields more interest. We’ll pull cash and check tracking and the ability to import past transactions into Mint.com.
Both the online and desktop experience will improve dramatically – creating a continuum of products for people as their financial lives and needs change. The new, combined Intuit Personal Finance team can help even more people save and do more with their money.
What is Quicken Live Community?
There’s something a bit different about the Quicken Community lately—namely, that we’ve moved to the Live Community platform!
You may recognize the Live Community if you’re one of the millions of people that used TurboTax last year to file your taxes. The Live Community has been enormously successful in helping users get their questions answered and find out more about filing their taxes, so we’ve brought it to our Quicken desktop customers. Read More »
Quicken Online - Made Simple
Here’s our new “Quicken Online – Made Simple” video…
New Home for MS Money Customers to Ask Questions About Quicken
When we announced Microsoft’s MS Money discontinuation, and our Quicken discount welcoming MS Money customers (running until July 30, 2009) we anticipated you’d have some great idea and questions. We just didn’t know how much! In order to help you better, and put you in touch with your fellow customers and Quicken employees to get more answers, we’ve pulled together the Quicken Live Community for you. The people that build Quicken products will monitor daily to answer your question. Please use this forum to ask questions so we can get you answers from people who know best.
Quicken Online Wins Award for Favorite New Financial Service
We learned late last week that Quicken Online emerged victorious in the brand new Favorite New Financial Products/Service category in the first ever People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite New Products. Read a little more background. The nationwide online vote was conducted by the Stevie Awards, sponsors of the annual American Business Awards. We’re sharing with you now, and since this is an award chosen by the people for the people (100,000 in fact). Thanks for choosing Quicken Online as your favorite new financial service.
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More than 100,000 votes were cast over the past month in 12 categories including Favorite Entertainment/Media Product or Service, Favorite Gadget, and Favorite Smartphone/PDA. Thank you Quicken Online customers for voting for us and using our free service!
Save the Date: May 14 is Intuit's Second Town Hall on Money Matters
If you’ve got a Web connection and some spare time, join us this week for Intuit’s “Money Matters” Town Hall series. This will be our second Town Hall (read more about the last one). The Town Hall is dedicated to providing consumers with advice they need to make their money matter, even in an economic downturn.
Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) is hosting the event and it’ll be lead by well-known personal finance and small business experts Farnoosh Torabi and Gene Marks. Town Halls provide insights and tips on surviving and thriving in the “new normal” economic climate. Read More »
Quicken Online Mobile: Now Working with iPod touch (1st gen) and in Canada
Hi you passionate Quicken Online Mobile users!
Thanks for your great feedback over the past week as you tried out our new iPhone app. You helped us identify two things we needed to fix right away. We’re happy to share that Quicken Online Mobile will now work with the iPod touch (all generations). Also, Quicken Online Mobile is now available for download in Canada. Thanks for helping us improve the app quickly.
Looking forward to your continued feedback,
The Quicken Blog Team
You Might Be a Tax Procrastinator If...
CC Image Courtesy of Niklas Bildhauer
The tax deadline is April 15. Yes, you have just two days to file your taxes. We’ll call today Tax Day Eve Eve. And, despite the fact that I work for TurboTax, I still haven’t filed my taxes yet. If you’re like me and procrastinate on well, pretty much everything, you’re not alone. According to the IRS, 40 million people wait until the last two weeks to
file – that’s about 20% of all taxpayers. Read More »
2009 Webware 100 Nominee: Yours Truly, Quicken Online
Yes, we’re tooting our own horns here, but Quicken Online is a finalist in the Productivity category for CNET’s 2009 Webware 100 Awards. Nominations stopped March 6, and according to Webware, they “… will honor the people’s choice for the best Web 2.0 apps and services.”
The 2009 Webware 100 Awards voting starts on March 31, 2009 at noon PST and will end at noon PST on April 30, 2009. On May 19, CNET will announce the winners. If you think Quicken Online makes your money life more productive, please vote for us!
Here is a list of previous winners.
We've Added More Financial Institutions to Quicken Online
This week we added 19 new financial institutions to the list of those that work with Quicken Online. Read More »
