All posts tagged ‘Finance’

File Under: Business
Dec
12
2007

Wesabe’s New Mobile Finance Site Helps Track the ‘Latte Factor’

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WesabelogoWesabe, the online personal finance tracker and social site, has unveiled a new mobile version for tracking your spending on the go.

The mobile optimized version of Wesabe lets you check your balances, see recent transactions, and, perhaps the highlight for heavy users, enter cash transactions, from any mobile browser.

Of course entering transactions from the tiny keypad of your mobile device is something of a pain so Wesabe only asks for a minimum of information in the mobile version.

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Sep
20
2007

Mint: New Personal Finance Site Competes With Wesabe

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Wesabe, the online money management service, has some new competition in the form of the recently launched Mint. No, not the popular traffic tracking software, Mint.com is a new personal finance manager which just launched at the TechCrunch40 conference. Mint is still in beta (I don’t think you can be part of the Techcrunch40 if you aren’t a beta), but we didn’t have any problems using the site.

In terms of features and use, Mint more or less mimics Wesabe, which we looked at last year. To use Mint you’ll need to sign up for an account and then set the site up to connect with your bank. Mint can automatically connect to most banks, it was even able to connect to my credit union, which requires a custom recorded script on Wesabe.

On the downside, Mint grabs all your accounts from a given institution whereas Wesabe has more fine-grained control, meaning you can ignore certain accounts that you don’t want to track.

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File Under: Business, Other
Aug
2
2007

Back To School Tip: Textbookflix Is NetFlix For Textbooks

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It’s back to school time and students know that that means, time to bend over and take one from the textbook publishers. But if long lines and artificially inflated prices aren’t your bag, you might want to look at Textbookflix.

Textbookflix is a new service that allows students to rent textbooks in the same way your rent movies from Netflix (which explains the horrible name, I think). Textbookflix is the brainchild of Chegg, a classified network where students can buy and sell textbooks.

In theory Textbookflix will let you search by school, course and professor to find the books you need and then you can rent them for the semester. The service is currently a private beta, but you can sign up to receive an invite.

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File Under: Business, Software & Tools
Jul
25
2007

Track Your Spending With Wesabe’s New Firefox Toolbar

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Wesabe, the personal finance tracking site, has launched a toolbar extension for Firefox users. The Firefox extension makes adding and updating your Wesabe account much easier and will do background syncs any time you use Firefox and are logged in through the toolbar.

We looked at Wesabe last year when it launched and came away fans of the money management site, in spite of our lack of money to manage.

And the new Firefox toolbar makes the site even easier to use. Rather impressive are the options for getting your back account to send data to Wesabe. According the video below, Wesabe records and stores a small script to grab your bank data if you bank doesn’t offer an easy way to export.

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File Under: Business, Other
Apr
24
2007

Yapta: Revolutionizing How You Buy Airline Tickets

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The airline industry has perhaps the most cryptic pricing structure known to man and deciphering it to get the best deal is never easy. Yapta (short for Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant), a new startup set to launch by the middle of next month, aims to save you the trouble of figuring out the best price by offering refunds even after you’ve already purchased a ticket.

We at Compiler generally avoid writing about startup sites we haven’t personally used, however Yapta is compelling enough, and has potential enough, that it warrants a look.

Yapta is currently in closed beta but, according to startup watch site TheNext, hopes to go public by May 15. However, early reports suggest that the site will not be the focus, instead Yapta will offer a toolbar bookmarklet that allows you to bookmark and track airfares. It sounds remarkably similar to MPire, but dedicated to airline tickets.

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File Under: Business
Jan
19
2007

Yahoo Adds Personal Finance Portal

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Yahoo has added a new section, Personal Finance, to their popular Yahoo Finance portal. As the name suggests, Yahoo Personal Finance is a new suite of financial tools covering every major area of personal finance.

The major sections can be seen in the screenshot after the jump, including taxes, retirement, banking and budgeting and more.

Within each section there are numerous subsections with content from over twenty-five content providers ranging from Consumer Reports and The Motley Fool to CNNmoney and The Wall Street Journal. The majority of the aggregated content consists of advice columns, expert opinions, articles and how-to guides.

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