In what looks like great news for Mint.com investors but bad news for users, Mint is going to be purchased by Intuit, maker of Quicken finance products, later this week.
Intuit offers a very close competitor to Mint, Quicken Online. That may mean the end for Mint.com in the next few months when Quicken attempts integrate Mint users into their existing service. If not, Mint may stay around but be changed quite a bit. Either way, I am not all that thrilled to hear that my favorite staple of the Personal Finance Arsenal is changing hands.
This might be a good time to give Thrive another look. Or, you can just start using Quicken Online itself, which stopped charging a fee a while back.
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