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Friday, 27th August 2010

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…

John Paul Titlow comments

USA Today: Goin' Mobile

The national newspaper USA Today has announced a shift from print with an online presence to a "multi-platform media company" with an emphasis on mobile. This is a far cry from a year ago when one of its writers blamed that kind of technology for everything from educational shortcomings to car crashes.

Mobile Curt Hopkins comments

7 Stories About Women Heroes in Tech - Please Send Us More

The technology press is full of stories of heroic men. In the startup economy, they often take the form of brave men who quit steady day jobs to join crazy startups. That's an inspiring kind of story; I wrote about Louis Gray doing that earlier this week and really enjoyed sharing his news. (How Chris Messina Got a Job at Google is a related…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Why Cloud Equals Better Outsourcing

Business Week published an article recently that talked about changes in outsourcing. They got the cloud part right - massive disruptions and changes in the IT infrastructure stack both in technology and company power positions. But they got the outsourcing part wrong. There will be big changes for large and middle-tier outsourcing companies. But…

Guest Author comments

Google Beat is the "Best Week Ever" for Web Search Trends

If you haven't discovered Google Trends yet, you're missing out on some of the Web's most interesting data and information. At any point you can see what searches are trending on Google and can use this data to compare the popularity of trends over time with nifty graphs. It's fun to play around with - but wouldn't it be nice if someone spoon-fed…

Chris Cameron comments

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