Category: intuit

TurboTax maker Intuit buys Credit Karma to corner personal financial data

[ad_1] Credit Karma will run as a stand-alone outfit, with existing CEO Kenneth Lin still in charge. Intuit expects the acquisition to close in the second half of 2020 if it clears the regulatory process. The deal makes sense for Intuit. While it has the budgeting site Mint under its wing, it doesn’t have a […]

Avast packaged detailed user data to be sold for millions of dollars

[ad_1] The investigation incriminates a lot of big name companies. We don’t know for certain which are past, present or potential clients, but the list includes Expedia, Intuit, Keurig, Condé Nast, Sephora, Loreal and more. Microsoft said it doesn’t have a current relationship with the company. Yelp said Jumpshot was “engaged on a one-time basis,” […]

Tax prep companies can’t hide their free filing software from Google anymore

[ad_1] This week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced changes that will hopefully make it less stressful for a lot of Americans to file their taxes in 2020. In an addendum to the almost 20-year-old Free File agreement, the agency has put new protec… [ad_2] Source link

Tax prep companies can’t hide their free filing software from Google anymore

[ad_1] Moving forward, the addendum prohibits TurboTax maker Intuit and the other nine companies that make up the Free File Alliance from “engaging in any practice” that would prevent their free software from showing up on Google or any other search engine. Additionally, all 10 companies must now stick to a standardized naming scheme so […]

A student’s guide to keeping track of your finances

[ad_1] Good money habits It doesn’t matter if you’re starting high school or graduating college; right now is the ideal time to develop good money habits. If you can live by a few rules, you’ll be able to survive, regardless of what happens in your future. The first rule is the simplest: Your income needs […]