Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Music streaming service Gaana has raised Rs 375 crore in debt funding from existing shareholders Tencent and Times Internet. The development comes nearly two years after Chinese technology giant Tencent led a $115 million funding in the music streaming service. “We recently raised Rs 375 crore debt from existing shareholders, Times Internet, […]
Archives for September 2020
Connector for AWS in Azure Cost Management + Billing is now generally available
In 2019, we announced the preview of the connector for Azure Cost Management + Billing, which allows our customers to analyze their Azure and AWS spend from a single pane of glass in the Azure Portal. We are excited to announce that this feature is now generally available. This new connector simplifies handling different cost […]
Azure Spring Cloud: a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps is now generally available
Azure Spring Cloud—a fully managed service for Spring Boot apps—is now generally available. With Azure Spring Cloud, you can focus on building the apps that run your business without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Simply deploy your JARs or code and Azure Spring Cloud will automatically wire your apps with the Spring service runtime. Once […]
TQAs address lease accounting for retirement communities
Background and nonauthoritative guidance on lease accounting for continuing care retirement community Type A life care contracts is provided in Technical Questions and Answers (TQAs) published Monday by the AICPA. Developed by the AICPA Health Care Expert Panel, TQAs 6400.55–.62 discuss how to: Determine whether an embedded lease exists under FASB ASC Topic 842, Leases; […]
U.S. Voter Databases Offered for Free on Dark Web, Report
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How to get Black female leadership talent into the C-suite
Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, two social movements founded by Black women, have increased pressure on businesses to raise the number of women, particularly Black women and other women of color, in executive positions. For good reason. Women in senior management remain underrepresented in corporate America even though their numbers increased from 17% in 2015 […]
How Analytics Helped Accenture’s Pandemic Plans
Accenture’s investments in cloud, platforms, and analytics and AI proved essential in the company’s quick moves to stay on top of pandemic-driven change. There are plenty of stories now about how organizations, big and small, quickly made the decision to pivot their office employees to a work-from-home status. These organizations may have already had many […]
A new internet domain for the CPA profession: .cpa
Today, the AICPA and CPA.com are launching .cpa, a restricted Internet domain exclusively for the CPA profession. Only licensed CPA firms and – starting next year – individual CPAs will be able to sign up for the new top-level domain, a term that refers to the last letters of an email address or website name […]
5 ways to optimize your backup costs with Azure Backup
Achieving cost efficiency in your cloud usage is more critical today than ever before. At Azure Backup, we’re committed to helping you optimize your backup costs. Over the last few months, we’ve introduced a comprehensive collection of features that not only gives you more visibility into your backup usage, but also helps you take action […]