Tag: FINANCIAL

A little while back, we told you about Dwolla -- a new payment service with its sights set on challenging PayPal. Dwolla's angle? A flat rate per transaction of $0.25 and no other fees of any kind. It's also integrated with Twitter and Facebook, which makes it easy to send money to (or receive from) the people you're interacting with most online. Now, Dwolla is expanding its mobile offerings ...

Adobe, the software giant behind the monstrously-successful Creative Suite, Reader and Flash, has just racked up its first billion-dollar quarter. Up from $757 million in the same period last year, this represents a 33% year-over-year revenue growth, which is pretty damn massive. Over the entire year, Adobe enjoyed a total revenue of $3.8 billion, up from $2.9 billion in 2009. With all of the ...

You knew the trend toward transparency on the web would reach this point eventually: there's now an app that lets you automatically publish every credit card purchase you make to the web, where friends can comment and interact with them, Facebook-style. It's called Blippy. The idea of showing your friends everything you buy obviously raises some privacy concerns. Some purchases are ...

Grant talks to the team from Rudder, a new financial-tracking service that sounds a lot like Mint.com. The Rudder guys tell him how they distinguish themselves from Mint by focusing on planning for the future instead of tracking the past. Learn about the cool features that let Rudder turn finances into a game that you play with yourself. Can financial management seriously be fun? Find out in ...

You can access your bank account online, and your credit cards, student loans, mortgage payments, etc. In fact, you can pretty much handle all of your financial transactions online these days, which is great. There's just one problem. You have to visit approximately 21,874 websites in order to do it. And that makes it difficult to get a good picture of where your money is really going. Mint wants ...

Netvibes and Pageflakes might be the best start pages for the everyday user, but what about those that have to keep in tune with the financial world 24/7? That's InfoNgens job. InfoNgen is a start page much like Netvibes, or even iGoogle, but highly targets the financial industry. Sections that are pre set on the start page include: In The News Economics News Commodities News Key Results Deal ...

Banking online is a touchy subject. Many old-timers still don't want to touch it with a 20 foot pole due to a ton of privacy concerns, but many of us gravitate towards doing banking on our own time, and at our own convenience. Wesabe, a company that helps its members by sharing information about where they spend their money and linking to a dedicated community where they can help each other make ...

Everyone knows that Microsoft makes a lot of money off of MS Office, and you know, that operating system that's installed on the vast majority of computers in the US and many other countries. But ever wonder just how much? Turns out Microsoft made $51.12 billion in revenue during the fiscal year that ended June 30th. That's up 15% from the previous year. During the second quarter of 2007. ...

Dying to know what Google's business was like the past while? With the search monsters track record we know to expect some goodness, that said, Google will be holding their quarterly conference call to discuss the pile of cash they've made. How has the news of the Postini security acquisition affected things? Or the finalization of the GrandCentral buyout? YouTube hooking with LG? FeedBurners ...

Microsoft is tapping the social network phenomenon by starting up one of their own. This financial social network will focus on finance professionals, and be targeted towards career roles. By the sounds of things, this financial site could be based of the current Microsoft Live pages idea where users get their own personal blog area with the addition of forums, and on Microsoft Dynamics Live. I ...

Earlier this week Yahoo! announced changes that would roll out soon to upgrade aspects of the Yahoo! Finance property. One of these changes, and probably the most significant for daily users, is the completely overhauled Stock Charts. When Google rolled out Google Finance property, most of the hubbub around their offering was the dynamic charts. These hadn't been seen before anywhere and had a ...