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This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. Once a month, a small group of folks at The Motley Fool gather...
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At Intuit, we pride ourselves in being customer centric. In the Personal Finance Group, that means follow-me-homes for Quicken where we actually watch users perform their daily financial tasks. For Mint it means regularly surveying our users to prioritize our next feature set. For example, we’ve found that over one third of all customer...
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Dennis Yang finds this chart misleading: Musicians have long known that in order to make real money, they'd either have to be U2 big, or tour. However, it's very interesting to note that in the new, digital era, artists actually make more off of their album sales in iTunes than they did in the...
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Are you afraid of the dark? Good thing Horror Squad is here to shine a light on all things that go bump in the night. The only thing you should be afraid of is missing a single day of news, opinions, and reviews from some of the most dedicated horror freaks on the planet....
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Forty states and Washington, D.C., applied for the grant program, and 16 finalists were named this month. Any state can apply for the second round of grants, with applications due in June. Leaders in many of the states that didn't win Monday have vowed to strengthen their applications and try again. “Georgia will reapply...
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