Below please find daily updates pertaining to the latest in accounting news:
Yahoo! Finance: Personal Computers Industry NewsHong Kongers Line Up, Ignore Flaws, as iPhone 4 Hits Stores (at The Wall Street Journal)
MarketWatch First Take: Disney swaps Hollywood for social media (at MarketWatch)
You've got to hand it to Walt Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger. He is not afraid to shake up a corporate culture when he spies an opportunity to achieve a higher rate of return for his stockholders.
Cell phone shipments continue to recover (AP)
The number of cell phones shipped worldwide rose 14.5 percent in the second quarter compared with a year earlier, with much of the growth coming from smaller challengers like the iPhone and BlackBerry, according to research firm IDC.
Dell Streak: Delayed? (at Barron's Online)
They Just Don't Get Motorola! (TheStreet.com TV)
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Fits and Starts for Startup Flipboard (at BusinessWeek)
The iPad app maker has big traffic its first week -- and big headaches
Steve Ballmer on the iPad: The transcript (at Fortune)
"We'll talk about about slates and tablets and blah, blah, blah, blah." No, those aren't the notes of a reporter who couldn't keep up. That "blah, blah, blah, blah" -- taken from the official transcript of Microsoft's annual financial analysts meeting Thursday -- is how Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer introduced what he said was [...]
[video] Eager Buyers Line Up for Midnight iPhone 4 Launch [1.8 min] (at MarketWatch)
Eager customers waited in lines outside stores for a midnight launch of the iPhone 4 in Hong Kong early Friday morning. WSJ's Lam Thuy Vo reports.
[$$] Snafus Plague New Zealand iPhone Debut (at The Wall Street Journal)
Snafus Plague New Zealand iPhone Debut Hundreds of customers in New Zealand hoping to buy Apple's new iPhone 4 were turned away Friday, in what one frustrated would-be buyer called a "nightmare" for customers.
Samsung says 2Q net profit surges 83 percent (AP)
Samsung's quarterly profit surged to a record high as sales of semiconductors, flat panels and TVs climbed, but the electronics giant warned that intensifying competition in areas like mobile phones could dent earnings in coming quarters.
AccountingWEB.com - News
Three famous tax cheaters take issue with the authorities
AccountingWEB appears to be developing a rogues gallery of taxation ne'er-do-wells as the same celebrities continue to make headlines. Wesley Snipes, Conrad Black, Lil Wayne, and Suge Knight are, once again, in the news.
Blue Ribbon Panel leans toward separate GAAP for private companies
At its most recent meeting, held in Chicago on July 19, the Financial Accounting Foundation's (FAF) Blue Ribbon Panel Chairman Rick Anderson asked the panel to define the problem that private companies faced with U.S. GAAP and the standard-setting system and to narrow the field for proposed alternative models.
D.C. launches amnesty program waiving penalties, fees on back taxes
Delinquent taxpayers will get a rare opportunity to pay outstanding taxes and interest to the District of Columbia, have their penalties and fees waived, and avoid criminal prosecution. The DC Tax Amnesty program will run from August 2 through September 30, 2010, offering individuals and businesses the opportunity to satisfy their tax liabilities.
AICPA asks Congress to repeal new 1099 reporting provision
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) has asked members of Congress to repeal the section of the new health care law that requires businesses to report to the Internal Revenue Service any purchase from a vendor of goods or services worth $600 or more during the calendar year.
KPMG Foundation awards $470,000 in scholarships
The KPMG Foundation this week announced it has awarded a total of $470,000 in scholarships to 47 minority accounting doctoral students for the 2010-2011 academic year.
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