Your Post-Spring Conference Season News Roundup

July 1, 2019 / 58:29/E89

Blake and David get caught up on all the news that slipped by during AICPA Engage, Scaling New Heights and Xerocon, plus David's got some new intel on QuickBooks Live. Facebook announced a new cryptocurrency, B2B IPOs are triggering investor zeal, a disappointing percentage of firms are taking advantage of videoconferencing tech, we have a couple of podcast recommendations, the CMA is growing like crazy, Pilot plans to bring 450 jobs to Nashville, Freshbooks has a new Retainers feature, and much, much more!

Show Notes

00:58 - Welcome to the Cloud Accounting Podcast!
01:45 - We got more reviews! Click here to leave a review on iTunes.
07:23 - Scaling New Heights 2020 will be in St. Louis
08:00 - Xero is launching apps.xero.com as the new Xero Marketplace
08:56 - Make the move from ‘trusted’ to ‘transformative’ | Accounting Today
10:59 - QuickBooks Live Bookkeeping update: Interested in becoming a QuickBooks Live Bookkeeper? | Firm of the Future
12:21 - The recruiting site for QuickBooks Live bookkeepers is now live
16:24 - Enterprise-Technology Companies Trigger Investor Zeal | WSJ
19:41 - Facebook’s Libra is live: What CPAs should consider about the new cryptocurrency | Accounting Today
25:49 - SURVEY: Nearly Half of Firms Use Videoconferencing | CPA Trendlines
28:08 - Top Video-Conferencing Tools: GoToMeeting, Skype [SURVEY] | CPA Trendlines
30:15 - 10 tech stories you may have missed: Faster WiFi is coming | Accounting Today
34:36 - OneDrive Personal Vault brings added security to your most important files and OneDrive gets additional storage options | Microsoft
36:19 - Warning Issued For Millions Of Microsoft Windows 10 Users | Forbes
38:12 - #144 Dark Pattern | Reply All
39:18 - Episode 922: The Cost Of Getting Your Money Back | Planet Money
41:36 - IMA celebrates 100th year | Accounting Today
43:01 - The state of bookkeeping in 2019 | Accounting Today
47:15 - Finding and Hiring Quality Staff a Top Challenge in 2019 | CPA Practice Advisor
50:39 - San Francisco company to bring division HQ, 450 jobs to Nashville | bizjournals.com
51:28 - Fresh off a $2.65B valuation, Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving | TechCrunch
52:29 - Skubana raises $5.4M for its e-commerce operations software | TechCrunch
53:55 - Thomson Reuters to Acquire Audit Company Confirmation | CPA Practice Advisor
54:51 - Fluidly wins £5M in RBS competition funding to unlock AI for SMEs | Fluidly
56:09 - Acumatica acquired by global private equity firm in bid to take on Oracle, Microsoft and other business software giants | Geekwire
56:28 - FreshBooks Adds Retainers to Help Service-Based Businesses Collect Recurring Revenue | PR News Wire

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