Auditing can be traced all the way back to ancient China, Greece and Egypt. But it wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that the accounting profession took flight. In a time of such explosive business growth, business people realized that there needed to be a systematic way to detect fraud and enforce financial accountability. Today, the […]
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Argentina cenbank tightens FX market access as peso plunge burns through reserves
The Argentine government has authorized the central bank to restrict currency purchases, according to a decree published in an official bulletin on Sunday.
China, U.S. kick off new round of tariffs in trade war
China and the United States began imposing additional tariffs on each other’s goods on Sunday, the latest escalation in a bruising trade war, but U.S. President Donald Trump said the sides would still meet for talks later this month.
Cloud 2.0: A New Era for Public Cloud
With new technologies and cloud offerings available almost by the day, the impetus for cloud adoption is stronger than ever before.
U.S. to help Poland, Ukraine disconnect from Russian gas
The United States, Poland and Ukraine agreed on Saturday to enhance cooperation over secure gas supplies in the region which still relies on Russia.
An Introduction to Structured Data at Etsy
Etsy recently published a blog post detailing how they store and manage structured data. Etsy is a marketplace allowing sellers to post one-of-a-kind items. Their landing page slogan “If it’s handcrafted, vintage, custom or unique, it’s on Etsy.” reveals that uniqueness is a selling point for Etsy. As long as an item falls within the […]
AirAsia cuts Airbus A330neo order plans, shifts to A321XLR
Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia Group Bhd scaled back plans to order the Airbus A330neo wide-body passenger jet by nearly two thirds on Friday, switching its focus instead to a long-range new version of the popular A321 series.
IBM Puts Red Hat OpenShift to Work on Sports Data at US Open
In its latest outing at the tennis tournament, IBM brings technology from Red Hat to the courts to process data in the public cloud.
Owner of Timberland, Vans stops buying Brazilian leather as Amazon burns
The U.S. parent company of apparel and shoe brands Timberland, Vans and the North Face will no longer buy Brazilian leather, it said on Thursday, as surging forest fires in the Amazon raise questions about how companies are contributing to the destruction of the world’s largest rainforest.
Track the health of your disaster recovery with Log Analytics
Once you adopt Azure Site Recovery, monitoring of your setup can become a very involved exercise. You’ll need to ensure that the replication for all protected instances continue and that virtual machines are always ready for failover. While Azure Site Recovery solves this need by providing point-in-time health status, active health alerts, and the latest […]