CEO Aaron Patzer’s surprising big news is that Mint.com is now on the Yahoo homepage.  I think everyone was expecting Patzer to mention Intuit’s acquisition of Mint, but it’s probably too soon to comment on it yet.  I used to watch stocks on Yahoo Finance years ago before Google, so now may be a good […]

Canopy Financial has an iPhone app where you find out local health care costs and manage health saving accounts. Canopy mobile will let you know what are your out of pocket expenses and give information on deductibles.  This is great information to have so that people can decide on the most cost efficient use of […]

On Deck Capital provides small businesses with loans. Analyzing cash flow, credit and transaction data is how On Deck decides what businesses to can qualify for a loan. The loan application is online and a loan can be approved quickly.  On Deck offers short-term loans and they often to lend to businesses who have a […]

Kasasa works with community banks and credit unions to create free checking ans saving accounts for consumers. Kasasa does all the marketing and creative. Kasasa is a product of BancVue/FirstROI. Kasasa Tunes free stuff from iTunes.
The guys from Kasasa had a great presentation even if it was a little corny. Helping the smaller local banks […]

POPMoney  is a new product from CashEdge. You can send money via your online banking to another person via email, mobile number or bank account. For me and anyone else who uses PayPal to pay people or get payment, this sounds great.
I am really excited about POPMoney. It could be a great replacement to using […]

Kapitall is a web platform for investing. Graphical interface makes it interesting and the display looks very user friendly. one of the founders expressed that he wanted the site to resemble a game. Kapitall is partnering with TD Ameritrade. Beta will open on September 30.

I caught the end of Home Account presentation. They want to be the Kayak.com of home lending.
CEO Amy Butte presented TILE Financial.  Amy was formerly the CFO of the New York Stock Exchange. Tile is a financial dashboard for young people. It looks similar to Mint.com. Donations to charities are featured. The goal is to […]

Tonight I mixed and mingled with many of the attendees and presenters of Finovate 2009. Finovate is like TechCrunch 50 for banking and investing and finance-related start-ups. I will be at the conference tomorrow for most of the day except for the hours I will be doing bookkeeping.
It was good to see Jon and Michael […]

Finovate New York is Tuesday, September 29. Online financial applications including Money Strands, Bill Shrink and Outright will be there. I am also attending and will do plenty of blogging about the conference.

Wow!  News of Mint.com being sold to Intuit is a surprise to me when I read about it this morning. Mint.com recently got another of funding, so I didn’t expect that it would get gobbled up by Intuit.  Hopefully Mint will help Quicken be quicker and easier to use.

I just reading about a new personal finance application that also manages cash flow.  It is called Green Sherpa.  I have to try it out to see how it is different from Mint, Thrive, Geezeo or Wesabe.  If you are using Green Sherpa, let me know in the comments.

Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist is now a social network which is like a  Facebook  for professionals.
Koda.us is a new site for social recruiting. KODA allows emerging talent and smart companies to go beyond the resume or traditional job posting with employer and employee profiles that allow both sides of the hiring equation to get to […]