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• Intuit wants suit over 'predatory' TurboTax fee tossed

  Intuit this week asked a court to throw out a class action lawsuit brought by two US taxpayers who claim their use of the TurboTax Online tax-preparation service resulted in a usurious and "predatory" fee.

• 10 questions for Total Defense CFO Marcus Smith

  Name: Marcus Smith

• 10 questions for Array Information Technology CFO Bob Deegan

  -- Name: Bob Deegan, senior vice president and CFO

• 10 questions for Sesame Communications CFO Jon Engman

  -- Name: Jon Engman

• Useful sites for small business

  Whether you're running a business out of your den or from a penthouse in the sky, you don't have time or money to waste on second-rate tools. These well-designed services and resources are among the best the Web offers for small and midsize businesses. Some include apps for smartphones and downloads for your desktop, but all of them provide the bulk of their features within a Web browser.

• Interview with BurstPoint CFO Terenzio Volpicelli

  Name: Terenzio Volpicelli

• Aussie startup takes accounting to the Cloud

  Sydney-based startup Interactive Accounting has taken accounting to the Cloud. The organisation has been around for two years and has Australian customers in the retail, travel and medical industries.

• Survey: CFOs to add finance jobs despite US unemployment

  Despite a U.S. unemployment average that has hovered around 9 percent in recent months, a survey of CFOs indicates improved fourth-quarter hiring for accounting and finance positions.

• Amberdms gives open source accounting green light

  New Zealand software company Amberdms has release a Web-based open source accounting and billing application aimed at simplifying business and customer management.

• Salesforce.com, Coda form new SaaS financials company

  Unit 4 Agresso and on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) vendor Salesforce.com will announce Wednesday they are launching a new company called FinancialForce.com that will incorporate the Coda 2go on-demand financial application.

• Oracle buys financial reporting software from HyperRoll

  Oracle is buying software assets from HyperRoll to improve the reporting capabilities in Oracle's financial management software, the companies announced Monday.

• Metcash moves financials from PeopleSoft to SAP

  Grocery distribution company Metcash will invest in SAP ERP software and Fujitsu services to replacement its PeopleSoft core finance system.

• Open source webERP takes on the big guns

  ERP software may be largely the realm of large enterprises, but little known open source application, webERP, is becoming more popular and fits into businesses of all sizes.

• NetBooks pushes revamped small-business app suite

  Startup NetBooks is making a second run at the nation's millions of small-business users with a new company name and revamped on-demand suite.

• Intuit buys online payroll provider for $170 million

  Intuit has agreed to buy online payroll provider PayCycle for US$170 million in a move to expand its software-as-a-service offerings for smaller businesses, Intuit said Tuesday.