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Tax-Prep Sites: The Big Three Fight for Your 2009 Return

(Reviews) Tax-Prep Sites: The Big Three Fight for Your 2009 Return

Acclivity Updates AccountEdge Accounting Software

(News) Acclivity has introduced a new annual edition of their small business accounting software, AccountEdge. AccountEdge 2010 now includes more detailed tracking of...

IPhone Bill Trackers

(Reviews) Any reminder application for the iPhone or iPod touch has one simple hurdle to clear: Does it remind you to remind you? It doesn't matter whether the app is...

QuickBooks 2010

(Reviews) There is much to be pleased about in Intuit's QuickBooks 2010 and, unfortunately, still quite a bit to be disappointed with, as well. While Intuit has made an...

FreshBooks

(Reviews) FreshBooks is a Web-based and 256-bit encrypted accounting, time billing, estimate, and invoicing application that seeks to replace desktop-based accounting...

Intuit to Phase out Quicken Online in Favor of Mint.com

(News) When financial software maker Intuit acquired Mint.com, there was quite a bit of uncertainty as to what would happen to the popular online financial service...

PayPal Introduces Open API to Put Payments Into Apps

(News) PayPal Introduces Open API to Put Payments Into Apps

Intuit Readies New Version of QuickBooks

(News) Intuit took the wraps off QuickBooks 2010 for Mac on Wednesday, touting time-saving features and improved business-management tools for its accounting...

Oracle Buys Financial Reporting Software From HyperRoll

(News) Oracle is buying software assets from HyperRoll to improve the reporting capabilities in Oracle's financial management software, the companies announced Monday.

IFinance 3

(Reviews) iFinance 3.0.9 is a beautifully designed personal finance application that helps you budget your money and manage stocks, income, and expenses. Unfortunately, it...

Intuit to Buy Free Online Rival Mint

(News) Intuit to Buy Free Online Rival Mint

Intuit Likes the Taste of Mint

(News) Since opening its virtual doors two years ago, Mint.com has made quite a name for itself. The online personal finance site has won praise for its easy account...

Snow Leopard and Exchange: It Just Works

(News) Microsoft Exchange is the most common groupware server for businesses, allowing workers to share calendars, contacts, and e-mail. But connecting to an Exchange...

Free Online Invoicing Tool Boosts Productivity

(How To) Bamboo Invoice saves money, plus its server-side installation allows access from any PC at anytime.

Amazon Offers Businesses Their Own Private Cloud

(News) Amazon Offers Businesses Their Own Private Cloud

USAA iPhone Check Deposit Hands-On

(How To) USAA iPhone Check Deposit Hands-On

Finding Mac Accounting Software for Your Small Business

(News) When you get right down to it, small businesses face the same everyday essentials as any working stuff--get paid and pay bills.

Quicken Financial Life Delayed Until 2010

(News) We know the folks at Intuit are busy, but we worry that perhaps they forgot to flip their calendar forward some time back in 2007. On Thursday, the company said...

AccountEdge Makes Its Return to Canada

(News) The last time there was a new version of AccountEdge in Canada, Jean Chrétien was prime minister, the loonie was struggling against the U.S. dollar, and Montreal...

SAP Wants to Help Microcredit Groups Manage Loans

(News) SAP hopes to help lower the cost of managing microcredits, as part of a partnership with French nonprofit group PlaNet Finance.

QuickBooks Online Opens Its Doors to Mac Users

(News) Back in January, Intuit used the annual Macworld Expo trade show to exhibit a number of its finance-management products, not the least of which was QuickBooks...

Software System Sniffs out Insider Trading

(News) The application will link stock data to news story headlines to detect suspicious stock trading

Use Big Business Expense Tools in a Small Office

(How To) ExpenseWatch tracks expenses, automates purchase approvals, and helps you find ways to save.

Accounted 2 Accounting Software Adds New Reports

(News) Oranged Software has announced the release of Accounted 2.0, an update to its accounting software for Mac OS X. Accounted...

Cut Your Accounts-Receivable Costs With a Free Online Invoicing Service

(How To) Cut Your Accounts-Receivable Costs With a Free Online Invoicing Service

IBank 3.4.1 Released

(News) IGG Software released an update for its personal finance application iBank, improving several components of the software.

Other Online Tax Options

(News) The story "Other online tax options," posted March 20, has been removed from the wire. It was posted by Macworld as a Macworld...

TurboTax Online, H&R Block TaxCut Online

(Reviews) You can do some great things in a Web browser, but some tasks are better left to software installed on your computer. This is...

Other Online Tax Options

(News) Editor's Note: As prominent a place as both Intuit's TurboTax and H&R Block's TaxCut enjoy, they're not the only places...

Intuit TurboTax and H&R Block TaxCut for Mac

(Reviews) With economic stimulus and bailouts in the news almost every day, this has got to be the one of the most confusing tax seasons...

Track Your Expenses On the Go With TextHog

(How To) Track Your Expenses On the Go With TextHog

Hackers Exploit Excel 'Zero-Day' Flaw

(News) Hackers Exploit Excel 'Zero-Day' Flaw

IBank Finance Software Improves Quicken Migration

(News) IGG Software has released iBank 3.4, an update to their personal and small business financial management software for Mac OS...

Preview: Quicken Financial Life for Mac

(News) Mac users last saw a new version of Quicken, Intuit's personal finance app, in 2006. The company hopes to change that this...

Involer Invoicing App Released

(News) Involer is a new invoicing app for the Mac.

Rules for Users

(News) In November, a federal judge in New York will decide whether to fix a user's spreadsheet error . Does that sound like...

QuickBooks Goes Global

(Reviews) The addition of multicurrency support and improved multiuser capabilities make Intuit's QuickBooks 2009 a worthy upgrade for many small businesses.

Let Zoho Send the Bill

(Reviews) Zoho's new service handles invoicing and collections for small businesses.

Microsoft Ditches Money Plus Update, Pulls Product

(News) Microsoft won't update its Money Plus personal finance software, as it has annually for 17 years, and has pulled the program...

EditGrid Brings Web 2.0 Tricks to Spreadsheets

(Reviews) Like Google and Zoho, EditGrid excels at Web-based collaboration, but it also brings online charts and other features to spreadsheets.

Web Services Make Quick Work of Payroll

(Reviews) Intuit Online Payroll and PayCycle Payroll Plus do a solid job of handling payroll preparation for small businesses.

SAP, Salesforce CEOs Spar

(News) Hasso Plattner and Marc Benioff tussled in a debate Thursday over whose company has the best software platform.

Dynamics GP aims at QuickBooks users

(News) Microsoft is making a new attempt to lure QuickBooks users over to Dynamics GP, its enterprise resource planning application for small and medium-size businesses, through a set of dedicated data migration tools and a new marketing campaign.

Microsoft's Office Accounting 2008 speaks Spanish

(News) The latest version of Microsoft's entry-level accounting program for small businesses released on Thursday can handle accounts in Spanish and English, and integrates with more online banking services than the previous version.

JasperSoft's next release aims for easy reports

(News) JasperSoft's next upgrade of its business intelligence suite, due out Nov. 1, will improve the ability for users to create their own customized reports.

Microsoft says next version of NAV not quite baked

(News) Microsoft Corp. has delayed the release of the next version of Dynamics NAV, one of its ERP applications for mid-size companies, company executives said Tuesday.

Wal-Mart buys SAP Financials

(News) Wal-Mart's decision to purchase SAP's ERP Financials, announced on Oct. 18, provides another piece of evidence that the IT strategy of the world's biggest retailer is shifting in favor of packaged applications.

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