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It's that time of year: W2 forms are starting to appear in mailboxes, ushering in tax season for millions of Americans. And while doing taxes online has been popular for years, 2011 may be the start of a mobile era for tax filing. SnapTax, made by the folks at Intuit's Turbotax, is a newly released app that lets users file their state and federal income taxes on iPhones or Android smartphones. Anyone who qualifies to fill out the… Read More

In a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, six top U.S. technology companies—Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, and Pixar—have agreed to end agreements with each other under which they would not try to recruit each others' top employees. The Justice Department's concerns were that the no-solicitation agreements between the companies significantly reduced competition to recruit highly skilled… Read More

Let's be candid: Macintosh users' relationship with personal finance company Intuit has ranged between frustrated and rancorous for the better part of two decades. Despite Intuit chairman and CEO long having warmed a chair on Apple's board of directors, Intuit's support of the Macintosh platform has always been half-hearted, dollar-intensive, and years late. Intuit has repeatedly released delayed Macintosh versions of… Read More

Financial software giant Intuit—makers of well-known products like Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax—has announced a deal to acquire personal finance services Web site Mint.com for some $170 million in cash. Mint.com is a financial services Web site designed to show consumers ways in which they can save money by analyzing their financial actions and habits. The service claims some 1.5 million users tracking nearly $50 billion in assets and $200… Read More