Quicken, Intuit's pioneering money management tool, and QuickBase, the application development platform that never seemed to fit Intuit, are being sold to private equity firms. Quicken will be sold to HIG Capital of Miami, Fla.; QuickBase to Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, based in New York City. Terms were not disclosed for either deal. 

You have to give the sponsors of Accountex USA, the conference that was known as SleeterCon credit for creativity in writing press releases. The February 23 release that says Doug Sleeter will keynote the event and ooze praise with phrases such as "Highly sought after for his ability to engage and educate accounting professionals on modern developments ..." His own description about his status with the company however, was a bit different.

Exact has begun using in-product messaging to inform the market about product developments for its cloud application, Exact Online. The company says in a blog post that "We thought it would be a good idea to tell you about the latest developments in the interface itself." Messages, the company says, will appear only in the appropriate menus and to relevant users.