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Thomas Jefferson
Quotes of the Day8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -
Lisa Williams
Motivational Quotes of the Day8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can." -
Two expected Obama fiscal 2013 tax proposals already under the microscope
Don't Mess With Taxes8 Feb 2012 | 9:39 amThe president is planning to release his fiscal year 2013 budget on Monday, Feb. 13, and two tax proposals expected to be part of the plan already are under intense scrutiny. Obama's budget for the government's new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 will likely include: Continuation through calendar 2012 of the payroll tax cut set to expire on Feb. 29, and Ending the Bush tax cuts for households making more than $250,000 a year. The prez has been facing push-back from Republicans on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail for both of these. The political opposition is no surprise, especially… -
Russian CIOs Plot a Path to the Future via Smarter Use of IT in 2012, Finds Oracle and PwC Report
Accounting News9 Feb 2012 | 4:29 amIndependent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the IT priorities of Communications Service Providers in Russia has found that 43 percent of CIOs currently spend more than half of their operating budget on "maintenance." That is compared to 60 percent of CIOs in the rest of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region.
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The content marketing explosion [infographic]
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8 historical figures who ate disgusting things
8 Feb 2012 | 11:26 pmBefore you read this article, you may have thought your dog had the grossest eating habits ever. But Fido's penchant for poo is nothing compared to some of these sickos highlighted in Cracked. For example, Victorian scientist William Buckland: He didn't just stop at the meat of animals, either. While on a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral, a strange mark was found on the floor. A debate broke out as to what the stain could possibly be, at which point Buckland got on his hands and knees, licked the stain and confidently announced it to be bat piss. But the craziest thing Buckland ever did, at… -
5 explanations of why teenagers act the way the do
8 Feb 2012 | 11:22 pmUnderstanding the teenage mind could be a life's work. For those of you who don't have that kind of time, however, Mental Floss gives five things that could explain the mind of the teenager. For example, parents, have you ever wondered if your teenager is somehow getting dumber? Parents of teens often wonder what happened to the bright child they used to have. How can someone go from getting A’s to getting C’s when they seem to be doing the same amount of work? Once again, changes in the brain are to blame. While the merits of IQ tests are debatable, scientists used to think IQ… -
Surviving the loss of a star employee
8 Feb 2012 | 11:16 pmSome groups have stellar members who carry the team. That's all well and good until that member leaves. Then what? This Smartblog video will help you answer that question: Full story at Smartblog on Leadership. Top news for leaders. Permalink | Leave a comment » -
Disneyland circa 1957 [video]
8 Feb 2012 | 11:14 pmThis video was shot in 1957, less than two years after Disneyland had opened. The footage is newly restored and ready to take you to the happiest place on earth as it was in its early days. Full story at Mental Floss. All the top Internet videos in one place. Permalink | Leave a comment »
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Quotes of the Day
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Thomas Jefferson
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." -
James Thurber
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes." -
Ronnie Shakes
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"I like life. It's something to do." -
Kurt Vonnegut
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president." -
Euripides
7 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
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Motivational Quotes of the Day
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Lisa Williams
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can." -
Hugh Macleod
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly." -
H. L. Mencken
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." -
George Washington
8 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing." -
Charlotte Bronte
7 Feb 2012 | 4:00 pm"A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow."
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Don't Mess With Taxes
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Two expected Obama fiscal 2013 tax proposals already under the microscope
8 Feb 2012 | 9:39 amThe president is planning to release his fiscal year 2013 budget on Monday, Feb. 13, and two tax proposals expected to be part of the plan already are under intense scrutiny. Obama's budget for the government's new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 will likely include: Continuation through calendar 2012 of the payroll tax cut set to expire on Feb. 29, and Ending the Bush tax cuts for households making more than $250,000 a year. The prez has been facing push-back from Republicans on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail for both of these. The political opposition is no surprise, especially… -
Will sales taxes come between Washington and Oregon shoppers?
7 Feb 2012 | 3:07 pmWashington and Oregon have been good neighbors. But a change in sales tax collection could put a strain on that friendly relationship. Washington has no income tax. The Evergreen State's 6.5 percent tax on retail sales is its principal tax source. Shoppers who come up from Oregon, however, don't have to pay Washington's sales taxes. To get tax-free treatment, Oregonians simply show their state IDs and Washington businesses don't charge them sales tax on their purchases. This courtesy is extended to Beaver State shoppers because their home state doesn't collect a sales… -
Super Bowl prop bets pay $60,000
7 Feb 2012 | 9:27 amMaybe it's time for those of us who dismiss those goofy Super Bowl prop bets to reassess our position. Two wagers that many of us considered to be throw-away bets paid off big for Jona Rechnitz. Rechnitz's $1,000 bet on a safety being the first scoring play of the Super Bowl returned $50,000 when Tom Brady's intentional grounding in the end zone gave the New York Giants an early two-point lead. Rechnitz's buddy Benjamin Lyons promptly posted a picture on Twitter of the 50-to-1 winning betting slip. Rechnitz pocketed another 10 grand for a second bet that there would be a… -
Americans want payroll tax cut through 2012, but Congress stalled again
6 Feb 2012 | 10:09 amRepublicans and Democrats trying to work out a full-year extension of the payroll tax cut are at loggerheads again. When the payroll tax cut short-term extension was approved in late December 2011, the measure also included the continuation of unemployment benefits and a Medicare payment tweak. But all three will expire if Congress doesn't act by Feb. 29. A House and Senate conference committee has been meeting since Jan. 18 to find a way to keep those provisions in place through 2012. The hope was that the political PR debacle just before Christmas would put the lawmakers in a mood to… -
Contribute to your retirement accounts
5 Feb 2012 | 1:51 pmMy running joke is that my ultimate retirement plan is winning the lottery. That's not likely to happen, so I still contribute as much as I can each year to my nest egg. Today's Daily Tax Tip is that you do the same. Self-employment retirement plan choices: If you're self-employed like me, you've got several options: SEP (Simplified Employee Pension) IRA, Solo 401(k) or SIMPLE (Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees) IRA. The plans vary depending on earnings amounts, how much you can put into them, when they must be opened, how easy (or difficult) they are to…
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Accounting News
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Russian CIOs Plot a Path to the Future via Smarter Use of IT in 2012, Finds Oracle and PwC Report
9 Feb 2012 | 4:29 amIndependent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers into the IT priorities of Communications Service Providers in Russia has found that 43 percent of CIOs currently spend more than half of their operating budget on "maintenance." That is compared to 60 percent of CIOs in the rest of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. -
Massachusetts: Pay no attention to that cloud hanging over the Calif. biotech industry
9 Feb 2012 | 12:19 amPriceWaterhouseCoopers, along with the California Healthcare Institute and Bay Bio has released a study saying that the California biomedical industry "is on a precipice," and employment has stalled. -
Watchdog fines Ernst & Young $2 million over audits
8 Feb 2012 | 8:15 pmThe watchdog board for corporate auditors on Wednesday said it has imposed a $2 million penalty, its largest fine ever, on accounting and consulting firm Ernst & Young LLP in a settlement involving past audits of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corp. -
Accounting industry watchdog's biggest fine yet: Ernst & Young to pay $2M for audit lapses
8 Feb 2012 | 4:05 pmThe watchdog agency for the accounting industry says it has fined big firm Ernst & Young $2 million for alleged lapses in three audits of a pharmaceutical company. -
US oil and gas M&A jumps in 2011
8 Feb 2012 | 2:05 pmInterest in U.S. energy companies spiked in 2011 as buyers clamored for more access to oil-rich layers of North American shale, a consulting and accounting firm said Wednesday.
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MacDailyNews
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Path and Hipster apps found swiping users’ address books
9 Feb 2012 | 5:20 amThe popular Path photo-sharing app is uploading users' entire address books... -
RUMOR: Apple’s Siri to speak Mandarin, Japanese and Russian next month
8 Feb 2012 | 6:29 pmSiri will launch in Chinese, Japanese, and Russian next month... -
iOS 5.1 beta carrier profiles hint at possible iPad 3 release on March 9th
8 Feb 2012 | 3:36 pmApple has published eleven new profiles for various iPhone-operators... -
Protestors target Apple Retail Stores in push to fix conditions in Chinese factories
8 Feb 2012 | 2:21 pmIf you see somebody dressed as an iPod Thursday during your morning commute... -
RUMOR: iPad 3 rear case housing leaks out of China
8 Feb 2012 | 1:47 pmThe mounts for the logic board are very different...
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TechCrunch
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German Court Upholds Previous Ruling, Says The Reworked Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N Can Be Sold
9 Feb 2012 | 5:36 amMark one up for Samsung. After months of legal and PR battles, the South Korean company is finally able to sell and market their iPad clone in Germany. Just don’t call it an iPad clone anymore. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N (pictured left) is slightly different from the iPad — but that’s all that matters. Samsung released the Galaxy Tab 10.1N late last year. This version features a silver boarder around the screen’s black bezel. The speakers were also relocated in a stereo configuration and now flank the screen. The original GalTab 10.1 was a blatant iPad ripoff. This… -
Oracle Buys Talent Management Solutions Company Taleo For $1.9 Billion
9 Feb 2012 | 5:05 amOracle this morning announced that it is acquiring cloud-based talent management solutions provider Taleo for $46 per share or roughly $1.9 billion, net of Taleo’s cash and debt. Taleo’s solutions basically help organizations attract, motivate and retain human capital, and will service to boost Oracle’s Public Cloud offering. The transaction is expected to close in the Summer of 2012. Here’s how Oracle pitches the buy: Together, Oracle and Taleo expect to create a comprehensive cloud offering for organizations to manage their Human Resource operations and employee… -
Glam Media Cooks Up Newest Content Vertical With Foodie.com
9 Feb 2012 | 5:00 amGlam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is debuting its newest branded vertical—Foodie.com. As its name indicates, Glam’s newest vertical is aimed at covering all things food, and features a combination of content from food critics, bloggers, chefs, restaurateurs and other “food influentials.” For background, Glam’s various publishing verticals have a reach of 200 million unique monthly visitors globally, and is particularly popular amongst female audiences. Glam Media has more than 2,500 publishers organized across multiple… -
Clusterpoint Secures €1m From BaltCap To Scale Its Database For Clouds
9 Feb 2012 | 4:44 amBaltCap, a leading venture investor in startups in the Baltics region, has signed a €1 million investment in Clusterpoint, an enterprise software startup created by Latvian programmers and backed by seed investors in the UK and Baltics. Clusterpoint has built a database platform designed for cloud computing infrastructure which they claim is highly scalable. They are competing against open source solutions such as MongoDB. -
Live from Riga – TechCrunch Baltics meetup #TCBaltics
9 Feb 2012 | 3:37 amWe’re running the first ever TechCrunch Baltics meetup today with a mini-conference and pitch contest in the lovely city of Riga, Latvia. The Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny countries, but punch above their weight in terms of their technical prowess. Estonia in particular was made famous as being the base from which Skype was developed, and now the rest of the region is coming alive with startups and accelerators. You can find the agenda here. Up to 8 selected Baltic startups will pitch to a jury and audience that includes many key investors in the region and…
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Your Vision Statement Sucks
5 Feb 2012 | 5:10 amYour vision statement sucks. Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but it does. Your vision statement blows. The good news is you’re not alone. According to a recent survey 98.8 percent of all accounting firms’ vision statements suck.* It should comfort you, however, that each of the Big 4 firms’ vision [...] -
THRIVEcast 7 is out!
2 Feb 2012 | 4:10 amIt’s a good thing this is THRIVEcast #7 because Greg gives you gambling lessons in this episode! Be sure to check out the discussion on the barbell theory of risk. Best of all, hear Rafi Mohammed, author of The 1% Windfall, challenge Jason and Greg on their pricing views. Listen and let us know what [...] -
Running a Firm is A Family Affair: Special Community Call for Tribe Members and Their Better Halves
26 Jan 2012 | 11:52 amHey THRIVE Tribe Members, there has been a lot of chatter about how to meet the needs of our spouses as we move into firm ownership. They live with the consequences of our choices. Let’s bring them into the conversation! The registration link can be found in the Events section of Yammer, or just let [...] -
What’s So Great about THRIVE Tribes? Tribe Members Weigh In!
21 Jan 2012 | 12:50 pmAfter an exciting first year in THRIVEal, several members recently decided to go a little deeper by joining a THRIVE Tribe. While we had all enjoyed some pretty lively discussions in the THRIVEal LinkedIn group, it became clear that we needed a better platform to be able to share files, photos, recordings of meetings, etc. [...] -
THRIVEcast 6
13 Jan 2012 | 5:02 pmSo the latest THRIVEcast came out just before Christmas. Did you hear it? Jason Blumer and Greg Kyte discussed the upside of customer complaints and what is means to work in a ROWE. Jason and Greg also had a fun conversation with Jay Shepherd, author of Firing at Will. Be sure to listen before the [...]
