Credit Karma Exits Tax Prep, Square Enters

SponsorsSynder: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/synderClockShark: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/clocksharkOnPay: https://cloudaccountingpodcast.promo/onpayShow Notes03:30 - Amazon cloud-computing outage Wednesday triggered by effort to boost system’s capacity https://www.inquirer.com/business/technology/amazon-web-services-failure-added-capacity-20201128.htmlAWS Outage Interrupts Service for Spotify, Square And Others https://www.pymnts.com/amazon/2020/aws-outage-interrupts-web-service-for-spotify-square-and-others/People Can't Vacuum Or Use Their Doorbell Because Amazon's Cloud Servers Are Down - Eminetra Australiahttps://eminetra.com.au/people-cant-vacuum-or-use-their-doorbell-because-amazons-cloud-servers-are-down/74505/06:30 - Will Zoom Apps be the next hot startup platform?https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/18/will-zoom-apps-be-the-next-hot-startup-platform/08:44 -  Salesforce in Acquisition Talks with Slack – Good News or not? https://customerthink.com/salesforce-in-acquistion-talks-with-slack-good-news-or-not/13:54 - Salesforce buying Slack would mark the first big software deal in a boom year for the cloud https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/28/salesforce-slack-would-be-first-big-deal-in-boom-year-for-software.html14:05 - Expensify Surpasses $100 Million in Annual Recurring Revenuehttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201123005455/en/Expensify-Surpasses-100-Million-in-Annual-Recurring-Revenue19:28 - Tudor, the Virtual Accounting Robot, launched by Connectionshttps://business-review.eu/tech/tudor-the-virtual-accounting-robot-launched-by-connections-21518927:22 - Pentagon fails audit yet again, could pass around 2027, comptroller sayshttps://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-auditor/pentagon-fails-audit-yet-again-could-pass-around-2027-comptroller-says-idUSKBN27X03P29:45 - Some in Scottsdale will get deliveries from Walmart in autonomous Cruise vehicleshttps://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2020/11/10/walmart-use-cruise-vehicles-autonomous-deliveries-scottsdale/3761006001/31:52 - Pandemic Speeds Americans’ Embrace of Digital Commercehttps://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-speeds-americans-embrace-of-digital-commerce-1160543620034:07 - FinTech Stripe Eyes Funding Round, $100B Valuationhttps://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2020/fintech-stripe-eyes-funding-round-that-could-put-valuation-at-100b/34:46 - Second Share Purchase Values Toast POS At $8Bhttps://www.pymnts.com/restaurant-technology/2020/second-share-purchase-deal-values-pos-startup-toast-at-8b/35:58 - TurboTax maker Intuit wins U.S. antitrust nod for Credit Karmahttps://bankinnovation.net/allposts/focus/comp-reg/turbotax-maker-intuit-wins-u-s-antitrust-nod-for-credit-karma/Credit Karma To Divest Tax Unit In Merger https://www.pymnts.com/news/partnerships-acquisitions/2020/credit-karma-to-divest-tax-unit-to-square-in-7-1b-merger-with-intuit/38:22 - Square and Xero: Enhanced integration and point-of-sale features for UKhttps://www.xero.com/blog/2020/11/square-xero-enhanced-integration-uk/39:05 - Xero's cash mountain suggests a major deal is on the horizonhttps://www.afr.com/technology/xero-s-cash-mountain-suggests-a-major-deal-is-on-the-horizon-20201125-p56hrn39:56 - Crunch Free is a new online accounting platform aimed at the self-employedhttps://www.techradar.com/uk/news/crunch-free-is-a-new-online-accounting-platform-aimed-at-the-self-employed41:21 - Latest product news – December 2020https://www.xero.com/blog/2020/11/latest-product-news-december-2020/41:52 - New: Easily Manage Your Bills With Accounts Payablehttps://www.freshbooks.com/blog/accounts-payable42:30 - FreshBooks Ramps Up Its Focus on the UK Small Business Market, Announcing a Partnership with Barclays, and Launching a Suite of New Features https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/11/25/2133461/0/en/FreshBooks-Ramps-Up-Its-Focus-on-the-UK-Small-Business-Market-Announcing-a-Partnership-with-Barclays-and-Launching-a-Suite-of-New-Features.html42:53 - Biden confirms he wants Janet Yellen to be his Treasury secretary — what that means for cash-strapped American familieshttps://www.marketwatch.com/story/janet-yellen-is-poised-to-become-treasury-secretary-in-a-biden-cabinet-what-that-means-for-cash-strapped-american-families-2020-11-2443:17 - Virtual HQs race to win over a remote-work-fatigued market