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.

GoldMine, the operation newly named after its veteran CRM product, has released its software in German, Spanish, Italian and Russian. The new features hit the market with special pricing that expired by the time I got onto this release (which I swear was not posted anywhere near the date claimed on the website.) Read more...