Aaron Patzer

Last week during the Data is Money panel at SXSW, Aaron Patzer, the CEO of popular personal finance management Web site Mint.com, ignited a firestorm of controversy by bragging about the high quality of real time data that Mint is able to see -- such as which movie rental services are used most,...

Mac owners still have deal with a lack of proper Mac compatible versions of many popular programs, although the situation is improving. For the past few years this shortfall has included personal finance software such as Intuit's Quicken, an issue that has finally been addressed with the release of...

When Intuit, the makers of popular personal finance software Quicken, purchased Mint.com for $170 million, users of both services expressed concerns about the future of their favorite financial tool. After it became clear that both Mint and Quicken Online would remain free, the only real question...

"Nice shirt." That's the first thing Mint.com CEO and online finance wunderkind Aaron Patzer said to me when we sat down in a small conference room in the company's offices in Mountain View, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. My shirt was lime green. Patzer also wore a green shirt. The office...

Intuit, the makers of Quicken, announced it is purchasing Mint.com, a rival personal finance Web site, for $170 million.According to the announcement on The Quicken Blog, by joining the two companies will be able to better achieve their common goal to "help consumers do more with their money with...