Intuit releases debit card to be used with its mobile GoPayment system

Mobile payments are on the rise, but what about when a small merchant needs to make a payment? Intuit is releasing its own debit card, tethered to its mobile payments service GoPayment to help business owners keep the cash organized.

“In addition to helping them get paid, we’re helping them make payments,” said vice president and general manager of Intuit’s Payment Solutions division Chris Hylen in a statement. “This is just the beginning. Intuit will … Continue Reading

Mobile payments are on fire today, where will they be in 2015 (infographic)

We just can’t give enough love to mobile payments as we watch the world move from cash to credit to cardless. Intuit is feeling the evolution too and created an infographic to explain just how much mobile payments are growing and where they’ll be in 2015.

The two biggest payment players last year were obviously credit and debit cards, with a small, but rising mobile payments only making up 5 percent of purchases executed. But … Continue Reading

Apple, Microsoft-backed trade group now says “SOPA needs work”

After stirring up controversy with its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA) — an industry trade group that counts the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and 27 other tech companies among its members — now says that the controversial bill “needs work” before it can be passed.

“Valid and important questions have been raised about the bill,” wrote BSA president and CEO Robert Holleyman in a blog post today. … Continue Reading

Apple, Microsoft, and 27 other major companies are implicity supporting SOPA

While many tech companies have been vocal about their disdain for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) — a bill that is making the rounds on Capitol Hill and that could lead to unforeseen censorship on the web if passed — others like Microsoft and Apple have been mum on the subject.

Now it’s clear why: Apple, Microsoft, Adobe and 26 other tech giants are members of the Business Software Alliance, which has thrown its … Continue Reading

Mint finally brings its personal finance service to the iPad

Intuit-owned personal finance service Mint.com has finally launched an application for Apple’s iPad, which will help users who prefer the interactivity of tablets for tracking and analyzing their spending habits.

It’s strange that Mint.com has taken so long to launch on the iPad since the company has been generally fastidious about mobile development. Mint launched its iPhone app in late 2008, and moseyed its way to Android in May 2010. Regardless of how long … Continue Reading

Intuit’s payments team says mobile card readers will die

Payments and financial software provider Intuit has its own mobile card swipe reader, but that’s not stopping it from saying card readers’ days are numbered.

For all the development the company has sunk into its reader — two years’ worth, since the company began working on it in February 2009 — Intuit’s payments product manager Christopher Battles told VentureBeat that the card readers will be extinct as soon as a new technology can replace it.… Continue Reading

Demo: In a rare interview, Bill Campbell shares his coaching tips (video)

Updated: We’ve posted the video of Bill Campbell’s conversation with Brad Stone below.

Intuit chairman Bill Campbell is a legendary business adviser and “coach” to a generation of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, including the founders of Google and Twitter. He’s also a former Apple executive who has served on Apple’s board of directors since 1997. Campbell isn’t one to talk in public very often, but he finally caved in to VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall.

“He got me … Continue Reading

Mobile payments for dummies (infographic)

Confused about the many different flavors of mobile payments? The below infographic may help, courtesy of Mobile Payments Today.

The site has put together a truly useful diagram that cuts through the hype of mobile payments, and it delivers some useful projections to keep in mind as well. With the mobile payments market set to explode — Juniper predicts it will reach $670 billion by 2015, while Yankee Group thinks it could hit $1 trillion … Continue Reading

Square who? Intuit brings its GoPayment mobile card reader to Verizon Wireless stores

Intuit and Verizon Wireless announced this morning that they will be partnering to offer Intuit’s GoPayment mobile card reader in Verizon stores, bringing the device to more than 2,300 retail locations across the US.

Aside from the obvious benefit of more widespread availability, the partnership shines some much-needed light on Intuit’s two-year-old GoPayment technology. GoPayment launched a year before the more hyped mobile payment startup Square. which has made its tiny mobile credit card reader … Continue Reading

Intuit Brainstorm will help companies turn great ideas into action

Every company is full of smart employees with great ideas, but it’s often difficult to make those ideas a reality. That’s what Intuit is hoping to solve with Brainstorm, a new web-based collaboration tool launching today for organizations.

“We want to empower employees to change their organization,” Tad Milbourn, senior product manager for Brainstorm, told VentureBeat in an interview.

On the surface, Brainstorm appears to be yet another business collaboration tool — a place where … Continue Reading

Our third round of MobileBeat 2011 speakers includes Rich Miner, Tim Schaaff and more!

Preparations for our fourth annual MobileBeat conference are speeding along. Today, we’re announcing our thirdround of speakers for the event: Rich Miner, partner at Google Ventures; Tim Schaaff, president of Sony Network Entertainment; Laura Chambers, senior director of PayPal Mobile; Omar Green, director of strategic mobile initiatives at Intuit; and Humphrey Chen, executive director of new technologies development at Verizon Wireless. You can find all of our current speakers here.… Continue Reading