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Mint’s Aaron Patzer: “We Will End-Of-Life Quicken Online” In Six to Nine Months
Mint’s Aaron Patzer: “We Will End-Of-Life Quicken Online” In Six to Nine Months
Yesterday, Intuit closed on its previously announced $170 million acquisition of personal budgeting site Mint , making Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer the new vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group. He is now in charge of not only Mint.com, but also ...
Quicken Online To Be Shut Down Next Year, Accounts Merged With Mint [Personal Finance]
Quicken Online To Be Shut Down Next Year, Accounts Merged With Mint [Personal Finance]
consumerist.com — When news broke back in September that Intuit, the company behind Quicken, was buying personal finance website Mint , everyone wondered how the two services would co-exist. The worst case scenario was that Mint would be absorbed somehow into Intuit's ... (more) Quicken Online To Be Shut Down Next Year, Accounts ...
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The "Other" Entrepreneurship; Inside Intuit
Inc.com — ... Minting a new Intuit. After Intuit closed its deal to acquire personal finance site Mint.com earlier this week, TechCrunch caught up with Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer to discuss the details of the acquisition. Along with the $170 million for the start-up, he also receives a new title: vice president and general manager of Intuit's Personal Finance Group. His first official mandate as boss? Putting the kibosh on Quicken Online, which, according to the post, has significantly fewer active users than Mint.com. "Over the next six ...

Quicken Online To Be Shut Down Next Year, Accounts Merged With Mint [Personal Finance]
Consumerist — ... , everyone wondered how the two services would co-exist. The worst case scenario was that Mint would be absorbed somehow into Intuit's in-house competitor, Quicken Online. Thankfully, it looks like the opposite will happen. ...

Quicken Online to Shut Down Next Year, Users Moved to Mint [Personal Finance]
Lifehacker — ... , CEO Aaron Patzer of the latter personal finance site tells TechCrunch that Quicken Online will be discontinued in six to nine months. Users of Quicken Online will have their data transitioned to Mint, although numbers show only 100,000 of the 1.5 million registered are active users. The really good news? Patzer says he might incorporate one key feature of Quicken Online into Mint: manual cash transaction and uncleared check entry. [ ...

The hammer falls on Quicken Online; Mint.com emerges solo
Between the Lines — ... yesterday. That made Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer the new vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group, heading up Mint.com, Quicken Online and Quicken desktop products. His first decision? Quicken Online must die. “Over the next 6 to 9 months,” he said to TechCrunch , “we will end-of-life Quicken Online and their customer’s data will be migrated over to Mint.” ...

Intuit to phase out Quicken Online in favor of Mint.com
Macworld — ... , there was quite a bit of uncertainty as to what would happen to the popular online financial service. More often than not, when a startup is acquired by a large, established company, the startup is given just enough rope to hang themselves. Fortunately, Intuit appears to see plenty of value in Mint.com. Mere days after the Mint.com acquisition was completed, Intuit has announced plans to phase out Quicken Online in six to nine months in favor of its new Web service. The catalyst for this decision was the user base for Quicken Online and how it compared to Mint.com’s. While ...

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Mint.com Founder Promises To Kill Quicken OnlineSilicon Alley Insider
With Intuit's $170 million buyout of Mint complete, Mint founder and CEO Aaron Patzer tells us Quicken Online will be killed and replaced by Mint in the next several months. Read the rest of this story » See Also: Mint.com: Staying Free At Intuit, Android App In The Works (INTU)  ...