H&R Block Rebrands Taxcut Tax Preparation Software

December 21, 2009

The new tax season is starting in a few weeks and TurboTax and H&R Block have just released their new tax preparation software programs. The biggest change for 2010 is that H&R Block have rebranded their TaxCut programs, which will now be known as H&R Block At Home. This decision is taken partly to increase [...]

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Quicken Online to be Phased out in 2010

November 25, 2009

Intuit has decided to phase out its web-based personal finance program Quicken Online, after its recent acquisition of competitor Mint.com. Plans are to suspend Quicken Online in the next six to nine months. The decision was made by Mint founder and CEO, Aaron Patzer, who now heads up Intuit’s Personal Finance Group. This move is [...]

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Microsoft Office Accounting Software Discontinued

November 5, 2009

Microsoft has announced that it will no longer be selling its Office Accounting software after 16 November  2009. As was mentioned here at News & Reviews earlier this year, Microsoft has discontinued a number of software and web services such as Microsoft Money Plus personal finance software. The reason given by Microsoft for the decision [...]

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Intuit Releases Quicken 2010 – Free Quicken WillMaker Included

October 20, 2009

Intuit released new versions of popular Quicken personal finance software last week. There are several new features and improvements in their 2010 release. New faster,  easier guided setup – get started in just a few steps Improved design for a simpler interface New home page offers a snapshot of all your most important financial information [...]

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New QuickBooks 2010 Accounting Software

September 28, 2009

We are pleased to report that Intuit have today released their new 2010 accounting software. Some of the new features this year include: More customization options for the Company Snapshot view New Document Management – users can now scan documents and attach them to their customer, vendor, employee or transaction records in QuickBooks. Attached files [...]

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Intuit Buys Mint.com

September 20, 2009

It was announced this week that Intuit, who produce popular finance applications Quicken, QuickBooks & TurboTax,  will buy their online money management competitor Mint.com for $170 million, a deal which will be completed by the end of the year. Mint.com had been growing steadily since it first launched in 2007, with now approximately 1.5 million [...]

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Green Sherpa Launch Web-Based Money Management Solution

September 8, 2009

Along with more and more companies entering the already highly competitive market of online personal finance programs, Green Sherpa launched their web-based money management solution at the end of August 2009. The service provides the usual features you’d expect to see such as account monitoring, automatic transaction categorizing, expense tracking, reconciliation, alerts, budgeting and goal [...]

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New GoPayment Credit Card iPhone App from Intuit

August 17, 2009

Intuit has released the iPhone/iPod Touch application GoPayment this month. The new app which is free to download, will allow business owners to process customer credit card payments on the go. Business owners will now be able to process payments as soon as they finish a job, by entering credit card numbers directly into the [...]

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New Online Financial Planning Software: MoneyDesktop

July 31, 2009

MoneyDesktop.com is a new online financial planning program just released this month. It proposes to get Americans out of debt with the help of advanced financial management tools. MoneyDesktop offers traditional personal finance software features such as monitoring accounts, expense tracking & budgeting and real time financial reporting, as well as some great long term [...]

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Financial Planning Software – What Benefits Can It Offer?

July 26, 2009

With the growing uncertainty regarding the security of retirement income, more people are becoming concerned about the health of their future finances. Personal debt is still rising and most people are not saving enough, especially for retirement. As well as managing short term budgeting plans, most individuals & households should also now be looking at long-term financial planning.  If you [...]

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