Applications

Applications

Verizon Selling Tumblr to WordPress Owner

The blogging site was inherited as part of Verizon’s 2017 acquisition of Yahoo, which bought Tumblr in 2013 for $1 billion.

Debra Wallace
August 13, 2019
Technology

Salesforce to Buy Field Service Software Firm

The $1.35 billion acquisition of Israel's ClickSoftware adds to Salesforce's offerings for mobile workforces.
Applications

SAP Software Sales Dip in Asia Amid Trade Feud

"Trade-related uncertainty in Asia impacted our software revenue performance in the region," CFO Luka Mucic says.
GAAP and IFRS

FASB Gives Private Companies Breathing Room on Lease Accounting

FASB members voted unanimously to propose moving back the effective date for lease accounting and two other major new accounting standards.
Applications

Financial Application Buyers Are Stuck in the Present

In making software-buying decisions, finance organizations are too focused on gaining efficiencies and not enough on future digital needs, says Gartner.
Analytics

Salesforce to Buy Tableau in $15B Analytics Move

The acquisition combines Tableau's tools for understanding data with Salesforce's solutions for understanding customers.
Tax

Tax Departments Are Starving for Technology Investment

The tax function needs the same kinds of modern tools that finance and accounting are increasingly acquiring, Deloitte says.
Applications

Will Private Equity Takeover Benefit or Hurt Acumatica?

Jon Roskill, CEO of Acumatica, said his company couldn't have asked for "a better match of  technologies, strategies, and cultures."
Regulation

Machine-Driven Enforcement and Wrestling with Clouds

Are ever-growing compliance costs just the price of admission to the global economy?
Applications

Global Payments Agrees to Buy Total System Services

The merger is the latest in a series of deals involving large financial technology firms.
Legal

Supreme Court Deals Antitrust Blow to Apple

The court says iPhone users are eligible to sue Apple for overcharging them for apps sold in the App Store.
Tax

CCH Tax Software Outage Leaves Accountants in Limbo

A malware attack knocked out parts of the popular cloud-based tax preparation software from Wolters Kluwer for several days.
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