Wiretap: Catching Up With Bill Harris
Last fall, I wrote about Personal Capital, the online financial advisory service launched by former PayPal and Intuit CEO Bill Harris. Harris had recently landed $25 million in venture backing for the...
View ArticleQuoted: Steve Jobs’ email to Palm over employee poaching
“My advice is to take a look at our patent portfolio before you make a final decision here.” — Steve Jobs, in a 2007 email to then-Palm CEO Ed Colligan, as the two discussed the Apple CEO’s accusation...
View ArticleHit the Payvment! F-commerce startup folding its tents.
Palo Alto’s Payvment was briefly one of those buzzy Silicon Valley startups, with more than $7 million in venture funding from BlueRun Ventures and 500 Startups. Now the Facebook e-tailer has folded...
View ArticleDot-com veteran Justin Kitch takes wraps off new startup, Curious
Back in the dot-com era, Justin Kitch launched a startup called Homestead, which gave online novices simple tools to build websites. Homestead ended up hosting millions of those sites, and Intuit...
View ArticleMore companies named in employee anti-poaching case
PandoDaily calls it “The Techtopus,” a web of agreements between companies not to recruit from each other. Silicon Valley’s no-poaching case, involving seven prominent tech firms including Apple and...
View ArticleTrouble with a capital T: TurboTax stops work on state tax returns
As if Americans didn’t have enough headaches already with the tax season approaching, now comes news that TurboTax, the nation’s best-known DIY tax software, has halted work on all state tax returns...
View ArticleQuoted: Intuit CEO talks tough after fake TurboTax filings
“I’m fired up to beat them.” — Brad Smith, Intuit CEO, talking about cybercriminals in the wake of a big test for him and his Mountain View company. TurboTax, the company’s tax-filing software, had to...
View ArticleOn-demand workforce to include 7.6 million people by 2020, new study says
Neither regulatory battles facing Uber and Airbnb nor mounting pressure on tech startups to convert their independent contractors to employees will slow the rapid-fire growth of the on-demand...
View ArticleIntuit launches new round of job cuts
Shares of Intuit rose Wednesday after the finance software company disclosed a fresh round of job cuts that would bring the total number of employment reductions launched this year to about 550. “In...
View ArticleStudy: The on-demand worker puts in an average 12 hours weekly
On average, a worker in the so-called on-demand economy is clocking in about 12 hours a week. And the money earned from this work provides 22 percent of the person’s household income. Those are some of...
View ArticleBill Campbell, former Intuit CEO and ‘The Coach’ of Silicon Valley, dies
Bill Campbell, the former CEO and chairman of Intuit, who was known as “The Coach” throughout Silicon Valley by the many executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists he advised, has died, Intuit...
View ArticleBiz Break: Fitbit’s in shape, Intuit ‘innovates’
Top Of The Order: Staying In Shape: For Fitbit, this year has mirrored what it can be like for someone going through a roller-coaster dieting experience this year. Lose. Gain. Repeat. The cycle goes...
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