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 billion in transactions. Intuit plans to make Mint.com the main personal finance management service it offers to consumers via the Web, while Intuit’s existing Quicken Online will continue to offer Quicken users online access to their Quicken services.
