The other day, as I was browsing LinkedIn, I saw a job advertisement for a tax manager. Now I can honestly say I know nothing about the firm or even the location, but the first three words in the ad made me stop dead in my tracks (and no, I’m not looking for a new job.) “Beautiful Downtown Office.”

Armanino announced that Silicon Valley professional services firm The Brenner Group will become an Armanino company, effective Sept. 1.

Wipfli announced it will be the first U.S. partner to provide business process outsourcing powered by Microsoft in the United States, joining European providers of the Microsoft BPO Platform.

Instapaper, once at the forefront of the "read later" tools, continues to evolve, providing broader functionality than its younger competitors.

Moss Adams announced it has agreed to combine with boutique IT consulting firm Curtis Consulting Group to expand the firm’s IT consulting and software development capabilities.

Damien Greathead of Receipt Bank talks about how accountants can use technology to spend more time with clients, in an interview with Accounting Technology editor-in-chief Danielle Lee.

Wipfli announced its technology consulting practice has joined the NetSuite Solution Provider Program.

TaxBuzz, an online directory of tax professionals, has released a new service to help its users verify their providers' identity and trustworthiness.

Thomson Reuters announced the integration of its ONESOURCE Indirect Tax solution with commerce platform Hybris.

Sage’s 2015 Summit crystallized a new mission for the company, sparked with the hiring of Stephen Kelly as the accounting and payroll software provider’s CEO last November and continued with the rollout of a flurry of new cloud-based solutions in the spring.

Cristina Garza is a real-life accounting super hero.

This morning while at Sage Summit (during a breakfast of beignets) I had the opportunity to meet IRL (in real life) the global CEO of Sage, Stephen Kelly. And guess what? He knew my name. After all, we’re Twitter friends.

Laying the packages and their capabilities out, side by side

I’ve covered printers and MFPs here before. But they were for individuals or small offices, and none of them that I talked about cost close to a thousand dollars.

Today’s value-added resellers know they must keep up with market trends associated with the software they sell so they can provide implementation and service for the software, but is that all there is to their business?

Four cutting-edge technology firms share their strategies

Disruptive technology leads to increased productivity

Net@Work announced the acquisition of consultancy and Sage reseller AXIS Integrated Solutions.

Sage announced several product revamps to kick off the 2015 Sage Summit Tuesday, including Sage X3 in the cloud and Sage Live, developed in partnership with Salesforce.

Jim Metzler is as close to a crystal ball as you’ll get