Accounting software developer Cyma Systems has hooked up with Piracle to make the latter's system the authorized Secure Payment Processing platform for Cyma. Piracle products include Create-A-Check, RapidRemit eXpress and Secure Printing Service users. Cyma has been busier than usual in 2010. It hooked up with Red Gear Technology, parent to TaxWorks, to provide its accounting software in that company's product line. During the summer, it also said Cyma was repositioning itself as a payroll and HR application supplier.

Read more...

sales improved for Intuit's first quarter ended October 30, but that came as online subscriptions grew by 45.6 while the number of desktop units sold dropped by 20.3 percent.  Intuit sold 217,000 QuickBook Online Subscriptions for the quarter just ended, compared to 149,000 a year earlier. Meanwhile, desktop unit sales dropped to 281,000 from 353,000. Read more...

Trey Resources, parent of Sage reseller, SWK Technologies, turned in one of those profitable quarters that gives me the opportunity do some interesting financial analysis.  The company made $730,785 for the third quarter ended September 30, compared to a loss of $325,502 a year earlier. Read more...

David Lahey, an accounting software veteran, had taken a position as VP of Customer Success at Jobvite, a start-up which has social recruiting features.  Lahey was most recently EVP of sales and marketing at SpeedTax, the sales-and-use software tax company, but left abruptly after nine months there. Read more...