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Here are ten things in technology that happened recently and how they affect your business and your clients’ businesses. Did you miss them?

Even as you woke up from that three-day nap after April 18, you knew you had to make money the rest of 2016, too. Lucky you’re in a field where that’s getting easier.

Oracle Corp., lagging the competition in cloud-based services, is essentially buying market share with its $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite Inc.

Tax practitioners and their baby boomer clients are beginning to cope with a monumental financial and tax event—the onset of required minimum distributions from traditional IRAs and qualified plans.

The IRS Statistics of Income program has released data on taxpayers who hold IRAs, private foundations, tax-exempts and other categories.

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CohnReznick has opened a high-tech “Innovation Lab” in its New York office, providing clients with access to the latest visualization and collaboration technology where they can brainstorm with the firm on solutions to their business problems.

Highlights of some of our favorite tax-related blogs from the past week.

John Napolitano of U.S. Wealth Management discusses in this video how to distinguish your best personal financial planning clients from the others.

EY, the official professional services provider of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, announced this week that they will host a number of events during this year's Summer Games, as part of the firm's Building a Better Working World campaign.

The International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board has published new guidance on how the public sector can account for employee benefits around the world and is also considering changes in how to account for financial instruments.

Oracle Corp. gave its cloud-services strategy a big boost by offering to buy NetSuite Inc. in a deal valued at about $9.3 billion.

Robert Raiola, an accountant at PKF O’Connor Davies who specializes in tax issues for sports and entertainment figures, has been selected by Topps for its Allen & Ginter line of collectible baseball cards.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, together with its Global Forum members, is intent upon providing transfer pricing tax risk assessment assistance to tax administrations.

In his second Sage Summit keynote since taking the helm as CEO in 2014, Stephen Kelly promised a company future focused on “sensibly prioritizing around customers and market needs.”

Sage has launched a chat bot for accounting in partnership with bot platform Gupshup.

Dealing with your clients’ other advisors

Looking for a gift to give after all those June weddings? How about some solid tax advice for the newlyweds?

A torrent of money has started to flow from the IRAs and qualified plans used by over 77 million U.S. baby boomers to save for retirement.

The Georgia Society of CPAs has named Barbara Evans, the former CFO of Thomas Concrete Inc., as the new chair of the GSCPA’s board of directors, for fiscal year 2016-2017.