ING Direct customers can now transfer payments to friends with the bump of a cellphone — no account numbers needed. The bank released an updated version of its iPhone app on Wednesday morning that integrates an API from Bump Technologies, a startup that makes it easy to transfer information between phones by tapping them together.
Archive for the ‘personal finance’ Category
File An Extension If You Have To
April 8th, 2011 
Nichelle Procrastinators, you can breathe easy. April 15 is less than a week away. This year the tax deadline is the April 18, but the three extra days may not help you if you have a pile of receipts in a shopping bag. If you absolutely know you won’t be to file your taxes on time, [...]
Take Five: Betterment, Tax Credits and More
April 4th, 2011 Nichelle Betterment is one of the start-ups that presented at Finovate that I really liked. The New York Daily News talked to Betterment founder Jon Stein about how Betterment makes investing easy. Hospitality is their specialty: Accion is a nonprofit microlender that has seeded small businesses in the food, beverage and hospitality business. The New York [...]
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1 Comment »Making Dough
March 23rd, 2011 Nichelle I posted this picture of hibiscus doughnuts from Dough in BedStuy because it is really popular on my food tumblr. Today I met Steph Auteri who runs Freelancedom, a very resourceful blog for freelancers and the like. Wall Street Journal has an article on start-ups on a shoestring, only $150 investment. Start over! Clean your [...]
Finovate Day 2 and Best In Show
October 6th, 2010 Nichelle Yesterday, I arrived at Finovate a wee bit tired after hanging out Brandy Library with some of the conference attendees the night before. The whiskey tasting was fun and informative. Anyway back to the conference. A great way to keep up with the 56 companies who presented is to check out this mind map created [...]
Summary of Finovate East Day 1
October 4th, 2010 Nichelle Today is the first day of Finovate. First off, there’s a definite clash of cultures. Lots of people are wearing suits. I was here last year, so it doesn’t surprise me at all. Some of the start-up guys are surprised to see suit and ties. Another thing is that Finovate is much bigger than last [...]
Will Be At Finovate Today
October 4th, 2010 Nichelle Finovate East is today and tomorrow. I will be doing live updates on KeepingNickels.Wordpress.com and on Twitter (http://twitter.com/niche) Full posts and key takeaways will be posted here by at the end of the week.
Take Five: Surviving Divorce, Updating Resume, A New Way To Pay
August 30th, 2010 Nichelle “Most women are one man away from welfare.”- Gloria Steinem. It may not be welfare, but the truth is that divorce can create a financial breakdown for many women. Mary Pilon has a great article in the Wall Street Journal about how to minimize the financial burden when a couple divorces. Need to be more [...]
Bookmark This: Lifehacker’s Personal Finance
July 6th, 2010 Nichelle Lifehacker has lots of content on how to be more productive, how to use technology and gadgets and even to how to cook things. One thing I love about Lifehacker are their posts on personal finance. You can find all of them at http://lifehacker.com/tag/personalfinance/. Recent topics include setting up a CD Ladder for savings and [...]
Financial Tune-Up At New York Times Center
March 26th, 2010 Nichelle Last night I attended a wonderfully informative and free event at the New York Times. Sponsored by Ally Bank and Lufthansa, the Financial Tune-Up discussion was moderated by Ron Lieber the “Your Money” columnist for the New York Times. The panelists were personal finance rock stars, Jean Chatzky, Ben Popken, and Burt Malkiel. The idea [...]
Broke Diaries Presentation
March 13th, 2010 Nichelle Thanks to all who came to our SXSW panel. This presentation has the sites that were mentioned. Update: ABC News wrote a nice article about The Broke Diaries panel, Five Social Media Secrets To Saving Money.
SXSW Interactive Panel: The Broke Diaries is March 12
February 24th, 2010 Nichelle The panel that I am moderating for SXSW, The Broke Diaries: Blogging and Twittering About Living on the Cheap is March 12 at 2PM. If you will be at SXSW, please come to the panel. I will be joined by a panel of “thrift experts” which are Larry Chiang (Duck9), Hayes Davis (CheapTweet), Emily Farris [...]
BillShrink.com: People Love To Know Their Options
October 5th, 2009 Nichelle Last week after Finovate, I met with BillShrink’s Director of Marketing, Jenny Michalski to talk about BillShrink. We talked about how BillShrink may make consumers more brand agnostic especially when it comes to mobile phone service. However, people will tend to hold on to their American Express card even if there credit cards with better [...]
Billeo.com
October 2nd, 2009 Nichelle Billeo is a site that makes it easy for you to pay bills and manage online passwords. At Finovate, Billeo.com announced their offer assistant which is a tool that shows what retailers have offers. This is similar to RetailMeNot but may be better since you find the offers via a Google search instead of [...]
Cents City: Teaching Kids About Money
October 2nd, 2009 Nichelle While I was in grade school, I learned about money via Junior Achievement. In 2009, Skill Life has developed a game/web portal called Cents City. aims to teach kids about money with a fun interactive site where they can earn points and collect in a passport which can be used later for actual products.
