CEO Brad Smith says all is on track in Intuit’s integration of its QuickBooks Online accounting software with mobile payments provider Square, the company run by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey. A beta test of the partnership began on schedule last month as part of Intuit’s (INTU) larger launch of the Internet cloud-based QuickBooks Online, Smith told IBD. “We’re still in the very early days of testing, to make sure everything works
All systems seem to be “go” for Priceline to broaden its push into key markets in Asia and Latin America under the tutelage of the online travel agency’s new global-minded CEO, Darren Huston. Huston, the 47-year-old CEO of Priceline’s (PCLN) Amsterdam-based hotel booking website Booking.com, last month was named successor to longtime Priceline CEO Jeffery Boyd. Boyd, 57, led the Norwalk, Conn.-based online travel agency for 11 years in a notable
DirecTV Group’s outlook for Latin America and its stock buyback plan will draw investor cheers or jeers. The satellite TV broadcaster is slated to hold its investor day event in New York on Thursday. “Latin America is going to be on people’s minds,” David Heger, an analyst with Edward Jones, told IBD. “It’s still a potential growth driver because its pay-TV market is much less penetrated than the U.S.” Heger says that even with slower growth, the