Stock traders are among the many groups of people who have taken up Twitter as a way to discuss their interests. They’ve even developed their own shorthand; a stock symbol is typically prefaced with a dollar sign, such as $MSFT, and tweets that discuss stocks often end with two dollar signs.
Stock Tweet App has taken [...]
In 1975 Bill Gates, Paul Allen and a certain unnamed, cloven-hoofed, hot-under-the-collar associate made a pact: to rule the world! It seems, 35 years, billions of dollars and dozens of lawsuits later that they’ve made it.
For the quarter ending December 2009, Microsoft saw a net, record-breaking profit of 6.66 billion dollars on revenue of [...]
BillShrink is a web service that helps you find the best deals on cellphone service, credit card accounts, and even the best gas prices. Since launching a year and a half ago as a wireless comparison engine, the BillShrink team has steadily continued adding new services. Now BillShrink has added bank accounts to its lineup.
In [...]
Portfolio Viewer is a slick desktop application for keeping track of the value of your stock portfolio. While it doesn’t link to your investment account for actually making trades, the program does plot user-entered transactions on a chart and keep track of historic stock and fund prices.
You can create multiple portfolios like, say, one [...]
Last week Microsoft announced that it would be discontinuing Microsoft Money, the company’s personal finance application. Download Squad readers came up with a number of great suggestions for anyone looking for a replacement. But the 800 pound gorilla in the room is Quicken. And now Intuit, the company behind Quicken are reaching out to Microsoft [...]
No, that headline doesn’t mean that Microsoft isn’t making money as in cash profits anymore. But Microsoft has decided to discontinue Microsoft Money, its personal finance application.
Microsoft will stop selling the application in June, although it will still be supported for another 18 months or so. After that point, you’ll still be able to [...]
For a while now the top contender in iPhone finance apps was Bloomberg Mobile. Enter DailyFinance’s iPhone app [iTunes link], featuring real-time quotes, portfolios and watchlists and some rather impressive charting tools. Mike Rose has a nice write-up over on TUAW, and the DailyFinance site has a good summary of features and a demo video. [...]
Rudder is a personal finance management site that pushes your banking info and upcoming due bills to your email inbox. This may free you from your compulsion to log in to your online bank site. Generally, there are all kinds of tools available from banks nowadays which push account updates to you via text, email, [...]
Trying to figure out where to tighten your belt during the financial crisis? You might want to take a look at Shoeboxed. It’s an online service that helps you keep financial records by recording receipts that you mail, email or upload. The latest big feature addition is automatic receipt sorting, which comes in handy when [...]
Smoking is widely considered to be one of the hardest “bad habits” to kick. Way more so than turning your underwear inside out and wearing it a second time.
If you’re having trouble quitting, why not download CostOfSmoking for a massive dose of reality. It’s an ugly, quickly assembled program (it looks like a packaged MS [...]
