Pretty much everybody has a little bit of debt these days. Whether it be a $500,000 mortgage or a $7000 car loan, pretty much everyone has a regular payment coming out of their salary to pay for a big ticket item. If you want to minimise the interest and pay your stuff off sooner, an app like iHome will let you take a closer look at exactly what you’re paying.
I’m the resident ANZ customer pulled in to test ANZ’s new goMoney app. And somehow that ended up meaning I had to send Nick $5 to ‘test’ things. But isn’t this app free? Damn you, Broughall! Luckily ANZ goMoney made me the happiest I have been with a bank service since net banking first hit the scene.
There are three items that can be found in pretty much every man’s pockets (and every women’s handbag) – Keys, wallet and a mobile phone. Given the proximity of your phone to your wallet then, it makes sense that instead of collecting receipts like they were Pokemon, the best way to track expenses is through a smartphone app. We like Expenditure.
So, it’s happened. By at least one serious metric, for at least this very moment – it could change tomorrow – Apple is now bigger than Microsoft. Apple’s market cap passed Microsoft’s today, just two months after edging under Walmart. The latest showing from Google Finance puts Apple’s market cap at $US225.98 billion to Microsoft’s $US225.32 billion.
Additional Apple-related shenanigans from CNBC as they report on Apple stock “tanking” in January following Steve Jobs’ poor health:
Monster Cable, purveyors of grossly overpriced products, feel your pain during these tough financial times. That’s why they are reducing their ridiculous prices to slightly less ridiculous prices during the recession.
Originally designed to fight the Soviets in WWIII, the F-22 Raptor has never seen combat. And now, Barack Obama needs to decide whether to keep building them or kill the plane forever.
Financiapocalypse has claimed yet another victim. This time it is Office Depot—and they are planning to close 112 stores, or 9% of their North American locations over the next three months.
After a Jefferies Group analyst cut Microsoft’s 2009 revenue forecasts, Microsoft’s stock fell to its lowest levels since 1998.
