Mint.com users feeling the hurt, pinching pennies
Personal finance site Mint.com has gathered data showing that its users spent an average of $300 less per month in August than in January this year — a 6 percent drop suggesting that the site’s 500,000 users are adjusting to the economic downturn (at least a little better than Wall Street).
Anonymous data culled from free finance sites like Mint, Geezeo and Wesabe that allow users to track their bank balances, set budgets, and control different… Continue Reading
DEMOfall08: Green Sherpa wants to manage your personal finances on the Web
New companies offering web-based personal finance management tools are popping up like Eggo Waffles in the 80s, ever since early start-ups like Mint emerged last year and won accolades.
There was Wesabe. We’ve also seen Geezeo, Buxfer and expensr all show up to take a shot at leadership in this area, but so far none seem to even come close. A new rival appearing at DEMOfall 08 is Rudder.
Tomorrow, at DEMO, another player, this one called… Continue Reading
Finance site Geezeo raises $1.2M from TheStreet.com
Geezeo, a site that helps you manage credit cards, loans, checking and savings accounts and more, has raised $1.2 million from investment site TheStreet.com. The deal gives TheStreet.com a 13 percent stake and an option to purchase the Framingham, Mass. startup at an equity value of $12 million.
Geezeo competes with other financial management sites like Mint and Wesabe. TheStreet.com owns sites like Stockpickr.com and MainStreet.com, and received a $55 million investment from Technology Crossover Ventures… Continue Reading
Roundup: Geezeo, online ads booming, FaceTunes?, Docstoc invites
Here’s a Friday afternoon roundup of the latest action:
1) Geezeo connects you to personal and financial online services
2) Online advertising worth almost $10 billion in the first half of ‘07
3) Rumor: Facebook has iTunes competitor in the works
4) DocStoc private beta invites
Geezeo, an online financial management service, now connected to even more financial institutions – We’ve recently covered Mint, a personal finance site that lets you aggregate your online bank accounts, then analyze things like your… Continue Reading