Financial software maker Intuit is releasing the latest version of QuickBooks, its bookkeeping tool for small businesses. The company showed me a bunch of new features, but the most interesting from a technology perspective is an App Center where customers can buy applications that make QuickBooks more powerful. Intuit actually launched the Intuit Partner Platform , its platform for applications built by outside developers, called last year, and it says it has …

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