Spendview draws $2M for personal finance tool
Yet another company, a Houston, Texas team called Spendview, has received funding for a personal finance site aimed at helping people keep track of their spending and better plan their own financial habits.
Among its many existing competitors are Buxfer (coverage here), Expensr, Geezeo, Mint (coverage here), Wesabe and several others.
Each company has its own approach. Spendview’s appears to concentrate on giving users insight into their own spending habits through plenty of visualization tools like graphs.
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HotPads to show rent vs. buy home prices
With plummeting housing prices and rental rates going up (credit crunch victims need a place to live, after all), prospective home buyers face more confusion about whether it’s better to buy or rent a home.
Housing search engine and listing service HotPads.com thinks it has the answer to the conundrum: showing rental and mortgage rates side by side on the screen.
On Monday the Washington, D.C. company will launch the first “buy vs. rent” search feature in… Continue Reading
Shipwire raises $4M for storing and shipping products for ecommerce sites
Shipwire, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that gives small businesses a place to store their merchandise and then have it packed and shipped to customers who order it over eBay or other sites, said it has raised $4 million in a first round of funding.
Shipwire’s service starts at $29.95 a month.
Shipwire says its customers include green mattress retailer Keetsa, DoggyPads (for housebreaking) and Indigo Clothing.
The financing was led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital, and is timed… Continue Reading