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New iPhone app! Passcode, Editing, and More!
Many of us at Mint are iPhone users so we’re as excited about our new iPhone app as we hope you’ll be. Keeping things simple is especially important on a mobile device so rather than cram in 100s of new features just to tick the boxes, we...
Intuit Not Out to Change Mint Says Founder
Scott Cook from Intuit here. OK, I’m about to date myself. Long ago (27 years ago in fact), I watched my wife complain about paying the bills. That gave me an idea. And that idea became Quicken. Check with your parents – they might use it. Maybe...
Why Mint.com + Intuit is a Big Idea
Today, exactly two years after launching at TechCrunch40, I’m excited to announce that we have signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Intuit, makers of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax, for approximately $170 million. It’s a great opp...
MintLife Nominated for OMMA Award
A star is born. MintLife, our still new online magazine devoted to helping you manage your money and understand the economy is a finalist in the OMMA Awards for Web Site Excellence and your voice counts. Vote for us! ...
More of What You Want From Mint
By popular demand, we’ve come out with a new release of Mint.com that provides you with even more insights into how you manage your money. We’ve completely revamped our budgeting features and added additional graph types so that you can s...
My (Fabulous) Date with Suze Orman
Mint CEO Aaron Patzer recently had the privilege of meeting larger-than-life personal finance guru Suze Orman. Here\'s what you\'re dying to know....
Mint Goes to the Webby Awards
Last week Mint's lead designer Jason Putorti had the honor of representing Mint at the 13th Annual Webby Awards in New York City. He was there to accept two awards for Mint.com, one for Best Financial Services Website, and another, the People's Voice...
Welcome Microsoft Money users
Microsoft today announced that it will stop selling Microsoft Money, its venerable personal finance software, by the end of June. While the software will continue to work, users will no longer have access to automated data feeds from their banks, cre...
Start your day with Mint.com on MyYahoo!
Many Americans start each day on their personalized My Yahoo! homepage. Starting today, they can use our new Yahoo! application to keep an eye on their money and budgets right along with their email, weather reports, sports scores, and news streams. ...
Helping Military Families With Their Finances
As we head into Memorial Day weekend and look forward to spending time with our friends and families, our thoughts go out to those in military families who are separated from their loved ones. While Mint.com can't help much in bringing them physicall...
Get your Mom on Mint.com for Mother’s Day
Most Moms already handle all of the household finances. If you use Mint.com, you already know how easy it makes managing your money. Flowers and chocolates don't last. Give her a gift that will, a little of your time in getting her set up with Mint.c...
Mint.com Nominated for a Webby
We're passionate about good design around here so we're especially thrilled to have been nominated for The 13th Annual Webby Awards in the Financial Services category. We are one of only five nominees in the category and we're eligible for both the W...
Mint.com Takes the Silver, Obama Takes the Gold
In late February, we learned that Mint.com was up for a 2009 Thomas Edison Award in the category of Lifestyle and Social Change for the work we've done helping over 1 million users manage their finances and save money. We were up against some heavy h...
Meet Our Millionth User
Meet our millionth user. Tami K, a 35-year-old married mother of two from Gresham, Oregon is learning to live within a budget, with the help of Mint.com. Tami manages a dental office and is also in charge of her family's finances. Mint.com has change...
Mint Goes to the White House
Last week, I was invited by the Obama administration to the White House. With me were Evan Williams of Twitter, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, the founders of Method, Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen, Jessica Jackley of Kiva.org, and many more young business lea...
Obama Administration Seeks Economic Advice From Young Entrepreneurs
Mint‘s founder, Aaron Patzer, was at the White House today to consult with top officials in the Obama administration. Patzer joined the founders of innovative Internet startups including CollegeHumor, Daily Candy, Kiva.org, Threadless, Twitter, and...
$2,000 For Our Millionth User and a Friend
We're just weeks away from signing up our millionth user and if that turns out to be you or your friend, there will be a $2,000 prize in it for both of you. We expect to reach this milestone by March 18, our 18 month anniversary. In celebration, we'...
Mint’s Growth is “Unbelievable”
At Mint we're all about the data -- so allow us to share one more stat with you. Thanks to you, we are well on our way to adding our millionth user. Over the last six months we've seen a sizable increase in the number of people using Mint.com to bett...
Mint Now Tracks Home Values
We know you're more than the sum of your financial accounts and that's why we've just made it possible for you to add your personal assets to your Mint account. Mint now lets you add the property you own, the art you collect, the family heirlooms yo...
Mint.com iPhone App: Putting Money in your Pocket in Time for the Holidays
We're proud to announce that our iPhone application launched today. If you’re a Mint.com and iPhone user, we invite you to unwrap this holiday gift early — download it now, it’s free! ...
Mint Does Davos
400 years of democracy and what have the Swiss got to show for it? Well, besides chocolate, the cuckoo clock, and the Swiss army knife, Switzerland also boasts the World Economic Forum, the organization that hosts Davos every year. Amid the debates o...
Money Speaks, Now It’s Your Turn
At Mint, we share a belief that the best medicine in an ailing economy is a routine checkup that can help you to understand and manage your personal finances. If, at the same time, it can actually save you money, that's all the better. So we are hono...
Text Mint to See if You’ve Been Naughty or Nice
We’re all mothers, fathers, sons and daughters here. So we know that the upcoming holidays are all about good Communication … and Shopping. We thought this was a great time to introduce (and remind you of) Mint.com features which help...
Mint Makes Investment Tracking Easy
If our recently released custom categorization features got your personal financial management taste buds salivating, then have we got a juicier main course for you! Here by popular demand, detailed investment tracking. ...
Mint’s Categories get Personal
Here by popular demand: Custom Categories. And by popular, we mean both as requested by our users and Mint employees alike. We’ve launched the biggest update to date in our Categorization, Tagging and Trends features – all to provide you with ...
Credit Where It’s Due
While the focus of the news this past week has rightly been the financial irresponsibility of large lenders and government regulators, we thought it was important to recognize that a large and growing number of Americans are showing greater financial...
Mint Congratulates TechCrunch50 Winning Presenter
The stakes are high, the demo is nerve racking, and although 52 are given the chance, only one company can emerge as the best presenting company. Read on to find out who won this year. ...
Meet the TechCrunch50 winners
From quantifying the Mint experience in actual dollars saved, to exploiting a Gmail contact list, to creating an entire website devoted to Mint.com, our TechCrunch50 winners all have interesting stories to tell. Here's how they did it. ...
Congratulations TechCrunch50 winners!
We said we’d be awarding two free passes to TechCrunch50 today, but we’re going to have to give out three! Here are the winners of Mint’s Be Our Guest at TC50 Contest: Most Referrals and New Users generated Ryan M. of Berkeley, Cali...
Hello Mint Readers
I'm Lee Sherman, Editor of Mint's blog. As the newest face of Mint, I wanted to take a minute to say hi. Just as Mint's software streamlines the management of your personal finances, our content delivers a fresh perspective that gives you the action...
