Danielle Lee

Intuit announced a new 15-city national QuickBooks tour to offer training, certification and connections for accountants and developers.

SurePrep, provider of tax automation and paperless workpaper solutions, announced the release of its 2014 enhancements.

Intacct chief executive officer Rober Reid was recently named a Gold winning “Customer Focused CEO” in the CEO World Awards, an annual program recognizing top leadership in companies of all types and sizes.

Intuit released its last QuickBooks Online update of the year.

Business software review site G2 Crowd announced the latest rankings of time-tracking software in its winter 2015 Grid report.

Cougar Mountain Software released the latest version of its Denali Accounting software, Denail 5 with TSheets Time Tracking, providing small businesses with in-house payroll and accounting processes.

AccountingSuite has been designated an Avalara certified solution partner, joining a community of software publishers that integrate Avalara’s SaaS offering into their own applications.

Jetpack Workflow has launched its cloud-based client management system for small to medium-sized accounting firms and accounting professionals.

Kashoo announced its move on to the Android operating system with the release of the Kashoo Accounting-Quick Entry app on Android.

More businesses are operating on the cloud than two years ago, with more transformational motivation on both the employee and client side, according to a new report from KPMG.

Xero released an updated accounting dashboard with new look and feel and new automated features.

Independent payment network Dwolla recently announced partnerships with both accounting software provider AccountingSuite and Microsoft.

Avalara announced it has acquired VATLive.com, the global online resource for tax news, insight and rate changes.

Bill.com released Bill.com Fast Pay, a new service for small businesses to pay and get paid electronically.

U.S. accountants are shifting from traditional accounting to trusted advisory services, according to the findings of the latest Sage Accountancy Index.

As the ITA kicked off its Fall 2014 Collaborative Dec. 7-9, the independent association of consulting firms and technology vendors announced new membership.

A fundamental shift has already occurred in cloud adoption, according to technology author Nicholas Carr, and with that comes big new challenges and opportunities.

Email app CloudMagic was already industry-vaunted for creating a clean and intuitive environment for users to manage all their email from various email services in one well-designed inbox.

Deloitte appointed Paul Sallomi, partner of Deloitte Tax, to national sector leader for technology within Deloitte’s technology, media and telecommunications practice.

Sunrise Calendar’s seamless compatibility goes beyond its cross-platform connectivity with Google Calendar, iCloud and Exchange, with the free app continually adding connections with other popular apps.