Lending Tree is getting sued for a dreaded, TJ-Max-esqe data breach. Apparently caused by some of their partners, Lending Tree managed to lose names and social security numbers for a number of their clients. It serves a great reminder, that even the biggest institutions are not immune for data theft. This is particularly important to [...]
Lending Tree loses your data - watch out PFM’s
May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Tags: · data theft, lending tree, mint, wesabe
Why isn’t enterprise software sexy?
December 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments
You rarely hear of big VC money going after a tech company who makes software for businesses. Most of the new you hear is about Wesabe or SmugMug or Snooth or YouTube or any other web site/application that consumers use. And probably because most enterprise software sucks.
Vinh from Subtraction says,
This is partly because enterprise software rarely [...]
Tags: · 37Signals, core processors, smugmug, snooth, wesabe, youtube
Mint grabs some big VC money!
October 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I’m really curious to see how the battle of the personal finance sites plays out in the next year or so. Mint announced this morning that they’ve raised $4.7M in VC money. Wesabe has some VC backing, but not nearly that much. While I prefer the Wesabe model of the community helping each other find [...]
Tags: · mint, personal finance, quicken, vc, wesabe
