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

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has launched an enhanced online marketplace at Tax.ThomsonReuters.com/Store. It is designed to help tax and accounting practitioners and corporate tax professionals more easily find and purchase the products they need, access news and insightful articles, join online communities of their peers, and more.

Bill.com has launched a new App Center that the company says is the first SaaS-based platform focused on streamlining workflows and supercharging productivity not just for CFOs but for entire companies.

AccuFund, Inc., which deveolops financial reporting and accounting software for non-profit, municipal and government organizations, has announced a reseller agreement with Brisbane Consulting Group. Brisbane specializes in providing technology services to nonprofit organizations.

There's a new collaborative financial management app that lets users securely establish and manage their social financial relationships. The new Yodlee app, called Tandem, allows users to set up financial circles from their phone contacts and social networks, with varying degrees of account access.

On the conference room shelf of a CPA’s office I visited recently, I noticed a Magic 8-Ball with the label “free tax answers.” When turned, the die floating in colored liquid inside the ball presses against the window to reveal an affirmative, negative, or non-committal answer such as “cannot predict now.”

Xero, developer of online accounting software, and Clio, provider of cloud-based legal management tools, recently partnered to provide streamlined services for lawyers.

Employment at small businesses in the U.S. dropped slightly in August, although employees saw increased compensation and hours worked. Small business revenues overall declined 0.18 percent in July; the construction industry was the only sector to show an increase, of 0.3 percent.