TrendCentral: With much of tweens’ entertainment—and thus their spending—happening online and now even through gaming consoles (PS3 games cost $8 per download), it has become more difficult for parents to track what their kids are charging to their credit cards. A recent slew of “allowance 2.0” tween-friendly debit programs are giving tweens responsibility for their own spending and we expect to see more products and services fulfilling similar needs. Example is PAYjr; this allowance-tracking website allows parents to create lists of chores with corresponding dollar amounts; when kids check off their completed chores money is automatically transferred to a prepaid debit card.

Tween-friendly debit programs [TrendCentral]

dBusinessNews: Spooz, Inc. announced today it will launch its flagship product, SpoozToolz(TM), at 4:00 PM CST. As pre-cursor to the product launch, Spooz will publish its e-commerce website, www.spooztoolz.com, earlier in the afternoon.

Spooz, Inc., a publicly traded company based in Chicago, provides a suite of solutions designed to simplify financial trading for traders and hedgers alike. SpoozToolz(TM) and its modules, the Company's flagship products, add built-in trading capabilities to the popular Microsoft(R) Excel software application, combining a customizable interface, streaming quotes, charts, technical analysis, a comprehensive historical database, and electronic trade execution into a simple add-in that becomes part of the Excel tool bar.

SpoozToolz to Launch [dBusinessNews]