Quicken’s Intuit May Snag Mint for $170 Million

It looks like Mint, a free money management site, may be gobbled up by Intuit, the company behind the popular Quicken software suite. TechCrunch reports that the deal will go down for $170 million, after Mint was valued at $140 million earlier this year. The Web site has grown by leaps and bounds since launching in 2007, when TechCrunch bestowed its top prize upon Mint at the TechCrunch50 event. At one point in the interim, Mint claimed it was growing so fast that Intuit demanded an explanation, unable to fathom how the site was gaining 3,000 new users per month (to be fair, Mint was counting people who signed up, but hadn’t linked their bank accounts). The deal should be announced in a few days. [via TechCrunch]