finance

Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining

Kara Swisher in Commerce on April 30 at 12:40 pm PT

Will a shake-up of the board of the daily deals company help its prospects?

A Countdown to Apple’s Cash Conference Call

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 19 at 4:04 am PT

After nearly a decade of watching it grow, Apple will finally do something with its cash other than watch it grow.

Here’s a Facebook App That’s Basically a Bank

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 20, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

Seattle-based Bobber Interactive is launching a social networking application that helps you manage your money and even earn cash rewards.

Mac Alternatives to Quicken

Walt Mossberg in Mossberg’s Mailbox on July 13, 2011 at 5:58 pm PT

Walt answers a reader’s question on alternatives to Quicken for Macs, putting a computer to sleep and watching TV on the iPad.

Voices

Tales From the Front Lines

Rebecca Blumenstein, Laura Landro, Julia Angwin and Alessandra Galloni, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 11, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

The challenges women face often cut across industries. But some are also unique to specific sectors. Women who have risen high in four industries–finance, health, technology and media–sought to illuminate these issues by recounting their own experiences and assessing how women generally have fared in their fields.

Yahoo's Got a Digital Newsstand

John Paczkowski in News on February 10, 2011 at 9:23 am PT

Chief Product Officer Blake Irving defines Yahoo as “the premier digital media company in content and context.” That’s a far shorter answer to the “what is Yahoo” question than the one he provided last year. A bit more cogent too. And it sets the stage for the company’s latest push into mobile content, Livestand, which it announced moments ago.

News Byte

Spotify Isn't in the U.S., but It's Hiring Here

Peter Kafka in Media on February 2, 2011 at 6:12 am PT

Spotify has one U.S. label deal and at least one more–with Citigroup’s EMI–that’s very, very close. That doesn’t mean the music service is guaranteed to land in the States, but it’s hiring as if it will: It has just picked up former LimeWire engineer John Pavley, and will put him to work at Spotify’s New York office. It’s also looking for a finance pro.

Talking Schmidt: Google’s CEO in His Own Words

John Paczkowski in News on January 20, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT

Eric Schmidt once said Google’s “policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.” But during his soon-to-end tenure as CEO he happily high-stepped across that line like the grand marshal of the Tone-Deaf Technocrat Parade, as I once joked. After the jump, a collection of some of his more remarkable pronouncements.

Don't Want to Sign In to Yahoo? That's Okay, Use Your Facebook or Google ID.

Liz Gannes in Social on January 18, 2011 at 11:12 am PT

Yahoo this week will begin allowing users to participate on its properties without signing in to a Yahoo account. It’s a significant move for the company, which had for a long time incessantly popped up login screens whenever visitors tried to do seemingly anything on the site.

Voices

Early Adopter: Pothole-Reporting App SeeClickFix Raises $1.5 Million to Help You Be a Squeakier Wheel

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on January 14, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

It’s a fine line between keeping your potholes filled and walls graffiti free and being a civic tattletale. Civic nuisance reporting app SeeClickFix lets you toe the line, and just got another $1.5 million from O’Reilly AlphaTech and Omidyar to help users keep at it.