Microsoft is partnering with rival Intuit with the shared goal of getting more developers to write cloud-hosted applications targeted at small businesses. The pair announced they're releasing a beta ...

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Intuit and Microsoft have jointly announced a partnership that will see Intuit able to reach out to the huge Microsoft .Net and Azure developer network. According to the release: The two companies ...

After jettisoning its small-business accounting product line late last year, Microsoft is aligning with former rival Intuit to help bring Intuit's large contingent of QuickBooks users into the cloud.

Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) plan to create new opportunities for software developers to deliver and market Web applications to small-business customers through the ...

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Sometime-rivals Intuit and Microsoft are now partners in an effort to encourage software developers to use technology from the two companies to create Web-based applications for small businesses that ...

The planned merger by personal computer software giant Microsoft Corp. and Intuit Inc., maker of the dominant Quicken personal finance computer program, collapsed Saturday, dashing the two companies’ ...

Two things can be said with certainty about the business of managing personal finances electronically. The first is that it is virtually in its infancy and there is vast room for growth, change and ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp., in the software industry’s largest acquisition ever, agreed yesterday to acquire Intuit Inc., the producer of the leading personal finance program, in a stock swap ...