Word: intuit
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...doing taxes in the digital age be as easy as buying a book online? This year it may be. Last week Intuit launched a service at www.webturbotax.com that lets users securely fill out and file all returns ($10-$20 each) on the Web without downloading any software. Kiplinger TaxCut, its main rival www.taxcut.com) just started offering free Web filing, but only for the 24 million taxpayers who qualify for the simple Form...
...forgive spectators from being a little confused today when U.S. v. Microsoft resumes after a two-week holiday break. We pick up almost exactly where we left off: A little fish (in this case, Intuit) describing how the big piranha from Redmond offered to swallow them up -- or grind them into fish sticks with the power of its Windows operating system. Because most of the testimony has already been leaked to the press (and Microsoft's PR machine has already responded), today may play like an old rerun...
...with concrete allegations of hyperaggressive businesses tactics streaming in from companies such as Sun, IBM, Netscape, Apple, Intuit, Packard Bell, AOL and now Disney -? on Tuesday the court heard testimony claiming that Microsoft had threatened the Mouse for getting too cozy with Netscape -- one can?t help but get the feeling something unpleasant, if not patently illegal, is going on. At the very least, Gates's image has undergone a downgrade that will take years to make over...
...game. "Be as careful choosing software as you are with books," she advises parents. "Learn what's right for different ages." Marleen McDaniel, the CEO of Women.com lets her two boys, ages 7 and 10, play "almost as long as they like--as long as their homework is done." Intuit executive Scott Cook allows his three kids virtually unlimited time on the computer, with one trade-off: "We sharply limit...
Omidyar has packed his board with branding-savvy executives from Hasbro, Intuit and Starbucks. But everyone finds working on the auction sites, well, different. Auction Universe chief executive officer Larry Schwartz recalls how someone tried to sell a live kidney for $250,000 before the company yanked the organ off-line. Suburban mom Kathy Barnett of Hoffman Estates, Ill., says she buys "garage-sale doodads" and quickly resells them on eBay: "I paid 10[cents] for a 1930s cookbook and auctioned it for $10." Ray Geeck of Lake Panasoffkee, Fla., began casually hawking dolls from his home and claims...