Intuit, the Mountain View maker of TurboTax and other financial software, has added features similar to its Mint.com site to its newest version of Quicken.
Intuit bought personal finance website Mint.com last year for about $170 million. Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer, now vice president and general manager of Intuit’s personal finance group, said in a news release today that the new Quicken 2011 for Windows is the product of “collaboration between the Quicken and Mint teams.”
Patzer said the new version of Quicken has “improved functionality and cleaner design” similar to the Mint.com site with “easy to read graphs and charts, improved navigation and increased automation.”
Intuit has released several versions of the software, ranging from a $29.99 “starter edition” to a $99.99 version for consumers who are running home businesses and a $149.99 version for Quicken users who also need to track rental property income and expenses.
The company today also released upgrades to its $49.99 Quicken Essentials for Mac software.
Intuit stock finished today at $47.31, down 26 cents, or 0.5 percent, from Wednesday’s closing price.
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