Cloud accounting vendor Xero has added 128 jobs this calendar year, bringing the number of employees to 187. That is up 124 percent so far and the New Zealand-based vendor plans to add another 100 before April. That signals the company's intention to keep growing at a rapid clip.

It would probably be a bigger story if the proposed acquisition of Deltek by venture firm Thoma Bravo did not draw a suit. After all, most merger announcements are followed by notices from law firms investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty by  directors.