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Technology will only quicken the pace at which news is moving away from the universal and toward the individualized. Several companies already offer services that let a computer user totally customize his or her daily supply of information: "I'll take the Washington headlines, please, plus the health news, N.F.L. scores, updates on AT&T's stock price--and anything on Madonna." The Daily Me has arrived on our doorstep, not with a thump but with a polite mechanical chime...
...Learning how to integrate financial planning with the rest of the group's structure and how to implement basic accounting procedures will likely help inexperienced leaders balance budgets. We are glad that beginning next year, every group will be required to submit its financial reports using the software program Quicken; such uniformity will make mistakes and discrepancies easier to spot. As one treasurer said, "If the dean's office honestly believes that they can tell us things that will prevent us going to jail, then...
...Epps said that starting next fall, student organizations will be required to submit their annual financial reports using the software program Quicken...
...already pay bills and check balances through computer networks like America Online and CompuServe. Microsoft, too, has been signing up banks to provide electronic financial services. Integrion plans to battle the software giant by linking consumers to accounts through the Internet, and with financial software like Intuit's Quicken. The partners will also set up interactive kiosks that act like bank branches for home banking away from home. "With this new venture," says IBM chairman Louis Gerstner, "electronic commerce will take its biggest step forward to date...
...YORK: They couldn't buy it, so now they're trying to kill it. Microsoft, which abandoned its bid to acquire Intuit and its popular Quicken program amid antitrust allegations, is pursuing a partnership with Visa International instead. The top software and credit card providers, respectively, said Wednesday that they would team up to offer online banking services in an attempt to break Intuit's lock on the personal-finance software market. Quicken gained its 80 percent niche by allowing users to pay their bills electronically, with the processing handled by Intuit. The Microsoft-Visa plan would allow people...