Bank Simple–Not Traditional Banking But Definitely Not Banking 2.0
I’ve written in the past about Banking 2.0 – a concept that sees the flexibility and openness of web 2.0 bought that most staid of industries, banking. As I see it, like the web we now know, banking 2.0 would involve banks creating APIs that would allow (and yes, after correct authentication of course, third […]
Chase Bank Loses Customer’s … No, Not Money, Just Email
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words – so here’s my 2k-word essay, straight from Chase Online: OK, that should be easy, let’s click to get that email: Oops – dear Chase, where’s my message? Of course on the week when the IMF and the US Senate gets hacked, GoDaddy goes down […]
MinTuit: a Second Look. (You Will Be Assimilated).
TechCrunch50 could not have asked for a better start: they get to announce that personal finance startup Mint winner of the $50K grand prize @ TC50 two years ago just got acquired for $170M. Great exit for a startup – not so sure about concerned users. But the big question today is why it made […]
Intuit Did Not Kill MS Money. Microsoft Did. Slowly, Over Long Years. Here’s the Full Saga.
An era comes to an end on June 30th, when Microsoft discontinues their PFM (Personal Financial Management) product, Money. The story started outside Microsoft, with a startup named Intuit releasing their first DOS-based PFM software, Quicken. The concept was simple and powerful: balance your checkbook, keep track of your financial transactions electronically. It worked; in […]
