Avalara announced it has acquired VATLive.com, the global online resource for tax news, insight and rate changes.

Bill.com released Bill.com Fast Pay, a new service for small businesses to pay and get paid electronically.

U.S. accountants are shifting from traditional accounting to trusted advisory services, according to the findings of the latest Sage Accountancy Index.

As the ITA kicked off its Fall 2014 Collaborative Dec. 7-9, the independent association of consulting firms and technology vendors announced new membership.

A fundamental shift has already occurred in cloud adoption, according to technology author Nicholas Carr, and with that comes big new challenges and opportunities.

Innovation requires change, and many of us resist or are reluctant to change. But hopefully not me.

Just in time for the season of giving, social gaming company Vouchr’s newly launched app Surpriise offers a giving platform for a variety of gifts, experiences and services that could come in handy for that next round of employee appreciation.

Cloud-based document management provider LedgerDocs has launched an integration with QuickBooks Online, allowing users to create transactions from documents posted directly to QBO.

TSheets and Cougar Mountain Software announced a planned integration of the former’s Time Tracking system with the latter’s Denali Payroll Accounting system.

Intuit has made its new QuickBooks Online Accountant available to new users.

Sqrl announced an e-signature add-on, 88seventysign, for its client communication platform.

Cloud-based document storage and sharing solution provider SmartVault has closed a $4.5 million round of funding.

Greatland has begun offering Web-based features for its Yearli technology for reporting and filing W-2 and 1099 forms.

The business payments technology network Bill.com said Thursday that its clients can now earn continuing professional education credits for Bill.com training.

Mary Meeker is famous for her technology reports. In her 2014 Internet Trends report she shows tablets growing faster than PCs ever did.

Crowe Horwath LLP has introduced the Crowe International Tax Manager, a Web-based automated information gathering tool that helps streamline tax-reporting processes.

Compliance and data security have recently been in the spotlight, due to major breaches at Experian and Home Depot, among numerous others.

Accounting and finance software developer Cougar Mountain Software has attained Gold Application Development competency from Microsoft.

A roundup of recent technology news.

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