In under two years, Mint.com has emerged as the most popular website in online money management, racking up more traffic than competitors like Wesabe and Geezeo. A month ago, CEO Aaron Patzer told Bloomberg News that he expected the company’s revenue to increase by 10-fold this year (Mint won’t disclose how much money it’s actually bringing in). The company also has announced a deal to put a Mint.com app on Yahoo’s customized My Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) home pages, which is expected to add significantly to the company’s audience. All that growth hasn’t been without controversy, though. Patzer told Bloomberg that one way the company hoped to raise sales was by selling anonymous user data, raising eyebrows in the blogosphere. (Right now, Mint makes money when users act on its recommendations. For instance, if they open a new savings account that Mint alerts them to). In a recent interview with paidContent, Patzer talked about why he is so bullish about Mint’s prospects. Edited excerpts after the jump. How will revenue increase 10-fold this year? If you double revenue quarter over quarter, that’s not unachievable ... The financial crisis has been pretty good for us. More people want to manage their money. We’ve seen applications for credit cards ... up 50 percent since January. So are you planning to sell user data like Bloomberg implied? It’s a misinterpretation. We would never sell user data. It’s in our terms of use. It’s just a bad idea. What we would do instead is create spending indexes. Just like the government puts out a consumer spending index, Mint has data on a category level, on a local level. (We could license it) as a potential revenue source or a press play. I don’t think there is anything insidious about it. How big of an impact do you think the My Yahoo deal will have on membership? If things go well and if we’re selected as a top application, it could add a couple hundred thousand users, maybe more. If this one works well, we might go to (Google’s customized home page) iGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG). This is part of a platform distribution (strategy). Mint is on the iPhone, eventually on RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and Android and Windows Mobile. This is about getting Mint out to where people are most active and interested in their finances. What are your projections for membership? We have 1.2 million or so. We’ll get up to 2, 2.5 million (this year) depending on My Yahoo. So what sort of additional functionalities are you thinking of adding to the site? A step-by-step guide to improving your financial life. It launched in beta to 10 percent of users. (It gives you a) score every month ... based on five principles. We know how much you spend each month. We can tell automatically whether you have three months of savings. We give you credit for all the good financial things you do. You earn points that add up to a score.

In under two years, Mint.com has emerged as the most popular website in online money management, racking up more traffic than competitors like Wesabe and Geezeo. A month ago, CEO Aaron Patzer told Bloomberg News that he expected the company’s revenue to increase by 10-fold this year (Mint won’t disclose how much money it’s actually bringing in). The company also has announced a deal to put a Mint.com app on Yahoo’s customized My Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) home pages, which is expected to add significantly to the company’s audience. All that growth hasn’t been without controversy, though. Patzer told Bloomberg that one way the company hoped to raise sales was by selling anonymous user data, raising eyebrows in the blogosphere. (Right now, Mint makes money when users act on its recommendations. For instance, if they open a new savings account that Mint alerts them to). In a recent interview with paidContent, Patzer talked about why he is so bullish about Mint’s prospects. Edited excerpts after the jump. How will revenue increase 10-fold this year? If you double revenue quarter over quarter, that’s not unachievable ... The financial crisis has been pretty good for us. More people want to manage their money. We’ve seen applications for credit cards ... up 50 percent since January. So are you planning to sell user data like Bloomberg implied? It’s a misinterpretation. We would never sell user data. It’s in our terms of use. It’s just a bad idea. What we would do instead is create spending indexes. Just like the government puts out a consumer spending index, Mint has data on a category level, on a local level. (We could license it) as a potential revenue source or a press play. I don’t think there is anything insidious about it. How big of an impact do you think the My Yahoo deal will have on membership? If things go well and if we’re selected as a top application, it could add a couple hundred thousand users, maybe more. If this one works well, we might go to (Google’s customized home page) iGoogle (NSDQ: GOOG). This is part of a platform distribution (strategy). Mint is on the iPhone, eventually on RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) and Android and Windows Mobile. This is about getting Mint out to where people are most active and interested in their finances. What are your projections for membership? We have 1.2 million or so. We’ll get up to 2, 2.5 million (this year) depending on My Yahoo. So what sort of additional functionalities are you thinking of adding to the site? A step-by-step guide to improving your financial life. It launched in beta to 10 percent of users. (It gives you a) score every month ... based on five principles. We know how much you spend each month. We can tell automatically whether you have three months of savings. We give you credit for all the good financial things you do. You earn points that add up to a score.

Lithium Technologies, an Emeryville, CA-based provider of white-label social networking tools focused mainly on the enterprise market, has done a small acquisition: it has bought Keibi Technologies, which develops automated content discovery, analysis, and moderation software for social media sites and services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Keibi’s technology is being used on AOL-owned Bebo, among others; it was founded in 2006, and raised $5 million in one round of funding from Hunt Ventures and Catamount Ventures in 2007. Lithium has raised a total of about $21 million in two rounds of funding, but has been around for a long time, since 1999. The technology was originally created as part of online gaming portal Gamers.com. CEO Lyle Fong and his brother Dennis co-founded Gamers.com and its parent, GX Media. Its solution is being used by Best Buy, Sony (NYSE: SNE), AT&T (NYSE: T), RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), Univision, and PayPal, among others. More details in release.

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has begun shipping its flagship N97 mobile phone in more than 75 countries, the company said today. The phone, which sports a touch screen and Qwerty keyboard, is meant to compete with Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s Blackberry devices, sales of which ate into Nokia’s share of the smartphone market last year. In the UK, the N97 will be sold through 3, Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U, all of which have not yet disclosed tariff costs. Nokia stores will sell an unlocked version for £499. Nokia’s VP for N series handsets told Bloomberg that the N97 “should not be a niche product,” and that its goal was to have similar sales to the N95, which has sold more than 10 million units as of the end of March. According to Gartner, Nokia’s share of the smartphone market fell to 41.2 percent at the end Q1 from 49.4 percent at the end of 2007, while RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) doubled its share to 19.9 percent. Apple’s share has shot to 10.8 percent of all smartphones, from none two years ago. Read more on sister site mocoNews.net.

Lithium Technologies, an Emeryville, CA-based provider of white-label social networking tools focused mainly on the enterprise market, has done a small acquisition: it has bought Keibi Technologies, which develops automated content discovery, analysis, and moderation software for social media sites and services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Keibi’s technology is being used on AOL-owned Bebo, among others; it was founded in 2006, and raised $5 million in one round of funding from Hunt Ventures and Catamount Ventures in 2007. Lithium has raised a total of about $21 million in two rounds of funding, but has been around for a long time, since 1999. The technology was originally created as part of online gaming portal Gamers.com. CEO Lyle Fong and his brother Dennis co-founded Gamers.com and its parent, GX Media. Its solution is being used by Best Buy, Sony (NYSE: SNE), AT&T (NYSE: T), RIM (NSDQ: RIMM), Univision, and PayPal, among others. More details in release.

BlackBerry Applications for Lotus Software Now Available from IBM

New statistics from comScore show that Apple and Google are both gaining ground in the battle for smartphone market share in the United States. Perhaps, as Google indicated when introducing the Nexus One, the iPhone and Android platforms are really next-generation "superphones" and the comparison with "normal" smartphones is unfair....

New statistics from comScore show that Apple and Google are both gaining ground in the battle for smartphone market share in the United States. Perhaps, as Google indicated when introducing the Nexus One, the iPhone and Android platforms are really next-generation "superphones" and the comparison with "normal" smartphones is unfair....

Posted by: Olga Kharif on February 09 Android operating system for smartphones has more than doubled its market share in the U.S. between September and December, according to comScore's survey of more than 30,000 consumers aged 13 and up. Android's market share rose from 2.5% in September to 5.2% in...

Posted by: Olga Kharif on February 09 Android operating system for smartphones has more than doubled its market share in the U.S. between September and December, according to comScore's survey of more than 30,000 consumers aged 13 and up. Android's market share rose from 2.5% in September to 5.2% in...

Motorola was the number one OEM in the U.S. during the latter part of 2009, according to a new report from comScore. Regarding smartphone platforms, however, RIM led the pack, followed at some distance by Apple and Microsoft.Motorola and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion led a three-month snapshot of mobile device...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Limited (RIMM: sentiment, chart, options) was the target of heavy call volume yesterday, with activity rising to 1.40 times the usual level...(Read More)

Google, Apple gain smartphone share at expense of Palm, RIM and Microsoft (comScore) TALF losses from CMBS could exceed $500m for US Treasury in the worst case scenario (GAO via FT Alphaville) Assets of the largest 1,000 banks in the world grew by 6.8% in FY 2008/2009 to a record $96.4 trillion (IFSL) Hulu Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly [...]

The change in the mobile phone market caused by the introduction of Apple's iPhone has slightly cut the profits for the handset industry overall, but has most severely affected Nokia and Sony Ericsson, while boosting Research in Motion, according to data released today from Deutsche Bank.

That was quite the rollercoaster ride this week!  Something for everyone…bulls and bears.  Feasting on the run that started the week, bulls pulled in their horns in advance of Friday’s job report, and while today ended nearly flat that certainly wasn’t the case.  A loss of 20K jobs and some very heavy margin selling took the indices [...]

BloggingStocks: As I sit in the Istanbul Airport watching the snow fall outside, I'm reminded of the song by the great Willie Nelson. Some of the best memories of my childhood include singing that song with my father, as we traveled on holiday from campsite to ... Read more

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - Self Dicipline and Charting Your Weight

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open

Schaeffer's analyst Morgan Searcy takes a look at news on the Street before the market open.

Schaeffer's Andrea Kramer takes a look at unusual option activity on the Street