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September 26, 2013 

From the Business Learning Institute: Turn analysis into insight. Donny Shimamoto (IntrapriseTechKnowlogies LLC) talks about transforming accounting and adding value to the businesses your working with and the accountants role in effective decision making.

September 26, 2013 

Chicago-based accounting firm E. C. Ortiz & Co., LLP volunteered at Feed My Starving Children as part of Illinois CPA Society's Annual Day of Service.

Taija Sparkman

September 26, 2013 

Secure communications provider Ziptr, who we covered in our April 2013 review of Client Portal Products, has notified customers that they will cease operations at noon on Friday, September 27th. Founder and CEO Firdaus Bhathena sent a message earlier this week to users, which included the following message:

September 26, 2013 

The Baby Boomers are about to retire en mass. A new report on age and retirement benchmarks in the U.S. shows that as much as 18% of the U.S. workforce could retire within the next five years.

September 26, 2013 

Thomson Reuters recently released Checkpoint Learning’s enhanced Premier Plus CPE Package for tax, accounting, audit, and finance professionals. It offers more than 500 Webinars and 450 online/downloadable courses covering legislative and industry changes in a cost-effective bundled subscription package

September 25, 2013 

Retailers' annual surge of holiday hiring will be more muted this year, according to a new forecast.

September 25, 2013 

Thirty-nine percent of developers working with Big Data think a government agency is tracking the data that they create, gather, or use in their database applications.

September 25, 2013 

Business Executives Look the Other Way When it comes to Data Security in the Cloud, Survey Shows

September 24, 2013 

Commercial Logic announced the release of a new version of TrakTime Central for QuickBooks. TrakTime Central 2013 features new reporting options and now supports QuickBooks Enterprise in addition to QuickBooks Pro and Premier.

September 24, 2013 

Round one of Intuit’s Small Business Big Game campaign ended Monday, Sept. 23 with more than 10,000 small businesses advancing to the next round.

September 24, 2013 

A New Jersey judge slapped the Minnesota Vikings owners Monday with an order to pay $84.5 million in damages to former partners they defrauded in a decades-old real estate deal.

September 24, 2013 

Privately held companies are growing sales at an annual rate of less than 4 percent in 2013, according to financial statements, according to preliminary estimates in the latest Sageworks Private Company Report today, a quarterly update on the health and state of privately held U.S. companies.

Isaac M. O'Bannon