Free real-time quotes have returned to Yahoo! Finance this week. Read more about it on the Yodel Anecdotal blog announcement. Yahoo!’s stock has been pretty flat since the Microsoft buy-out offer, but for stocks that move a lot during day trading, this should be pretty cool.... (Read More)
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It might be the stress of several late nights sorting out the taxes, but this email tonight from the TurboTax filing center made me laugh: I feel like a winner: “Congratulations!” it says. Now all I have to do is pay my taxes! I guess at some level I should feel good that the IRS has accepted my creation. The... (Read More)
This morning, the front page of the San Jose Mercury News included this disturbing story: Unopened rebate requests found in San Jose dumpster. Tech writer Dean Takahashi writes: … I am staring at more than 1,300 rebate requests sent to Vastech on Bonaventura Drive in San Jose. The envelopes were tossed - unopened - into a garbage dumpster near... (Read More)
Well, it looks like my problems yesterday weren’t special at all. Everyone was having trouble according to the Mercury News story this morning: For Intuit’s customers, Tax Day turned out to be even more stressful than they’d feared - and the company faced quite a challenge, too. The Mountain View financial software company’s servers couldn’t cope with the massive Web... (Read More)
Doing my taxes today and wrestling with TurboTax as usual. Check out this cool error message while trying to file electronically:... (Read More)
I recently received an unsolicited offer from a credit card services company asking me to sign up for their affiliate program. It looks like my blog was discovered based on my Nascar postings, because the first card profiled is the Nascar-related Visa. What was interesting to me was the amount of money being offered for these deals. There were a... (Read More)
