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• New Banking Trojan Horses Gain Polish As banks improve their ability to detect and fight fraud, the Trojan horses that criminals devise become even more sophisticated.
• Keep Your Passwords Private--and Handy--With LastPass An online airing of tens of thousands of stolen Webmail passwords suggests that it’s time to find extra protection.
• Mint Puts Twitter to Work Mint's new Money Tweets feature shows how businesses can put Twitter to good use.
• Quicken 2010 Takes Cues from the Web Even with Microsoft Money out of the picture, Quicken continues to improve--and offers solid value for those who prefer to track their personal finances with desktop software.
• Quicken Online to Taste Like Mint When the Intuit-Mint deal is finalized, Quicken Online will become a reskinned Mint.
• Intuit to Buy Free Online Rival Mint Intuit has announced that it is purchasing online personal finance rival Mint for $170 million.
• Banking Services Aim to Help Gen Y Manage Money Who is doing it: PNC Financial Services--a 2009 CIO 100 honoree--is targeting 18- to 24-year-olds with its Virtual Wallet, a mobile and online banking service that...
• London Stock Exchange Drops Windows System Analysis: System brought LSE to a standstill for almost an entire day, with more than enough blame to go around. But who really is at fault?
• Save Money, Online and Off Here are six money-saving tips that can help you reduce bills, avoid financial pitfalls, get cheap event tickets, and more.
• Not All Free Credit Reports Are Created Equal The FTC counters FreeCreditReport.com ads with parodies promoting its AnnualCreditReport.com--and goes after credit-repair scam sites.
• 10 Cool New Technologies You Need to Check Out Instant-on access for any PC. A netbook with a detachable screen. And a cheaper way to get out from under your home mortgage. These and other creative Web services, software and hardware were introduced at the DEMO 09 conference.
• DEMO 09: Home-Account is Trying to Replace Your Mortgage Broker New Web service tries to match home owners with banks to make it easier to finance a home.
• Regulator Fines E-Trade Units $1 Million The online brokerage E-Trade has been fined $1 million for having inadequate policies to prevent money laundering.
• 9 Sites to Help You Survive the Recession A growing number of good Web sites, like Prosper and Bankrate, are popping up, offering useful tools to help you manage and conserve your money.
• 12 Promising New Web Sites and Services At two conferences this week--Demo Fall 2008 and TechCrunch50--developers unveiled more than a 100 new Web sites and services. Here are a dozen of our favorites.
• Discover Your Solar Savings at Roofray If you've been thinking about solar power for your home, a nicely designed new site can show you just how much you'd spend and save for a custom array on your roof.
• Make Banks Compete for Your Deposits In MoneyAisle's real-time auctions, banks bid up rates on certificates of deposit and savings accounts.