The plight of Sisyphus, the king forced to forever push the same boulder up hill is very much like someone having to weed a garden. ... It turns out that Olympic runner Usain Bolt has difficultly getting dates. So many women have heard that he is the fastest man on earth. .... Many observers believed the recent appearance of naked statues of Donald Trump in cities across the country were the work of the GOP presidential candidate's staff attempting to show Trump has nothing to hide.

SWK Technologies had a lackluster first quarter for 2016. But for the second quarter ended June 30, the Livingston, N.J.-based reseller reversed the drop in product revenue from the March quarter and significantly boosted operating and net income. The numbers were reported this week by SilverSun Technologies, the public company whose only operation is SWK.

Exact advertised for a marketing director in this country less than two months ago. The ad emphasized positioning the Exact Macola brand. But the person the company hired, Beth Cattunar, this week verified my observation last week that the Netherlands-based software company had removed the word "Exact" from the URLs of its three American manufacturing software. operations. 

Xero's online accounting software is being used by bigger companies than expected. "We are seeing business far larger than we ever intended using Xero," CEO Rod Drury said in his keynote at this week's Xerocon in San Francisco. "We think slightly larger small businesses are coming into this platform." Coupled with an answer from Amy Vetter, the company's head of accounting, there is a question to be asked about Xero's technology direction.