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If you thought YouTube only featured videos of cute babies and stupid pet tricks, think again.

Creating open standards for health data, incubating talent, and eight other things that happened in technology this past month and how they’ll impact your clients and your firm.

A backlash against the app stores of Apple Inc. and Google is gaining steam, with a growing number of companies saying the tech giants are collecting too high a tax for connecting consumers to developers’ wares.

Millions of small businesses selling online; the return of retro technology; and eight other developments accountants and their clients need to know about.

Are you telling your clients and potential new clients what you do, or are you explaining to them why you do it?

Silicon Valley’s favorite compensation strategy — paying top employees in stock rather than cash — just got more expensive.

Software helps fight sales fraud, a crypto-surge and eight other recent technology developments and how they’ll impact your clients and your firm.

What was meant to be an opportunity to mingle in the sun in a southern French city turned partly into a public denunciation of tax practices of U.S. web giants.

Cloud, machine learning and analytics are in the offing.

Seattle levied an annual tax of about $50 million on big companies last week to help solve the city’s homeless problem. The tax was watered down from the original proposal but it was controversial and pitted the city against its most powerful corporate resident, Amazon.com Inc.

A key figure disappeared from Apple Inc.’s latest quarterly report. It’s also gone from the regulatory filings of Netflix Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google’s Alphabet Inc. and Oracle Corp.

Google’s Duplex AI points the way to a radical augmentation of the profession’s abilities.

America’s companies are swimming in cash thanks to the big cut in the corporate tax rate.

The European Union published proposals Wednesday for a 3 percent Digital Turnover Tax on the European B2B revenues of digital giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon (termed GAFA in Europe), Uber and Airbnb.

Large digital companies operating in the European Union could face a tax on their gross revenue based on users’ locations.

Businesses that were early adopters of the new rules have been running into some issues with regulators and investors.

Hangouts Chat has been added to Google’s G Suite, along with integrated bots from Xero and Egnyte.

Farewell, Ireland: it looks like corporate America will finally bring that cash home.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google moved 15.9 billion euros ($19.2 billion) to a Bermuda shell company in 2016, saving at least $3.7 billion in taxes that year, regulatory filings in the Netherlands show.

Google makes its e-mail the most secure on the planet, LinkedIn aims to make business chat snappier, a new digital bank for small businesses, and other new technology developments for you and your clients.