Archive for the ‘Products’ Category

IdeaStorm

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Dell has started making some good progress towards turning the company around and their new IdeaStorm site is awesome.It just launched on Friday, February 16th, but the content of the site is already taking off. The basic idea behind the site is for current, or potential, Dell customers to ...

It’s Pay Day!

Friday, December 1st, 2006

Here's fun promotional savings idea: have parents bring their kids in to open a youth savings account, or deposit some amount of money, and receive the board game Pay Day for free! What's in it for the parents? We'll match your pay day!CNNMoney posted an article about "5 gifts ...

more on ING’s "Electric Orange"

Friday, December 1st, 2006

More press coverage of ING's new online checking account.Deleware Online - The News Journal

Form 8888 (again)

Friday, December 1st, 2006

I want to put an IRS for in our statements. Sounds kinda weird, huh. I want to put Form 8888 into our year-end statements (see original post here), which contains our 1099's, and have it pre-populated with our routing number. Give the members a little instruction sheet, tell them what ...

Mastercard posts interchange rates

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Just a Visa recently did, Mastercard has released their interchange rates here.

Why you (and your members) need Form 8888

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

What is Form 8888 you say? It is the draft version of the new IRS direct deposit form for your tax refund! Currently, your basic 1040 just gives one line to fill the depository institution's information on. Form 8888 will let the taxpayer designate up to 3 ...

Visa releases interchange rates

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

Visa has finally made public all of their interchange fees/rates so now you can see where all that money is going! Here's the page and here's the PDF.And Mastercard has said they will be releasing their rates by November 1st. Read the article here.

The Reality of Virtual Economies

Monday, October 16th, 2006

In-game money is beginning to attract real-world tax attention. From the article:Second Life, for example, was specifically designed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab to have a free-flowing market economy. Its internal currency, the Linden dollar, can be converted into U.S. dollars through an open currency exchange, ...