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Frank Dinucci’s Cloud Accounting Workshop Draws Many … – Markets Insider

NEW YORK, Aug. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennial entrepreneurs are changing the face of the world with breakthrough innovations across diverse industries. Numerous problems of yesteryear have now galvanized a new age of startups that provide out-of-the-box solutions. Some pressing issues which have plagued entrepreneurs for a long time are the high cost, steep learning curve, and scalability of accounting software. Entrepreneurs are mostly pre-occupied with making their product or service more efficient and are therefore unable to keep up with the latest developments in the field of accounting software. Hiring an accountant or a bookkeeper is often not possible due to budgetary constraints. What one man can think, another man can accomplish. The emergence of cloud-based accounting has filled the bookkeeping needs of entrepreneurs by offering the ability to perform transactions over the Internet without the need for expensive and hard to learn software. Cloud-based accounting services provide remote servers and applications that can be accessed for relatively low fees to manage and maintain one's financial records.

Frank Dinucci, who owns one such accounting service, has been raising awareness about this technological advancement by conducting free workshops for entrepreneurs in the Bay Area. He says, "Cloud computing is not a new concept and has revolutionized the accounting industry. A research study by AICPA last year showed that over 56 percent of accountants used cloud-based accounting, but there's a shockingly low knowledge about it among entrepreneurs, probably due to a lack of exposure. This new technology incorporates high-level complex artificial intelligence and machine learning, which gives one the opportunity to stay ahead of the curve, stay current, and operate their business at their best. The payoff can be huge as cloud-based accounting services require minimal overhead expenses from a user, subscription costs are far lower than what professional accounts or popular softwarelike QuickBooks might charge. It is also readily available for use at any hour of any day, unlike an in-house accountant. The fact that it's stored digitally on remote servers means entrepreneurs don't have to worry about the loss of data in case their hard disks fail or crash."

Frank Dinucci believes that entrepreneurs who take the first step in this path are rewarded handsomely with more freedom, better client relationships and higher efficiency in their work-life. He says, "It does everything a highly trained accounting professional could do, and even more, at a fraction of the cost. This saves the entrepreneurs a lot of worries and lets them focus their minds on doing what they do best instead of dabbling with something they know very little about. Most cloud-accounting services come with CRM capabilities, which creates the potential for developing strong client relationships on top of profitable, flexible and streamlined accounting practices. By holding these workshops, our aim is to encourage these brilliant minds who have equally brilliant ideas to transition to the cloud, which will be hugely beneficial even down the line when they want to grow and scale their businesses. It will also ensure continuity. It's a 3-hour commitment on weekends that can go a long way in bolstering a critical aspect of your business."

Frank Dinucci's workshops have so far been a rage, managing to ironically drawing in more entrepreneurs than they accounted for. He says, "We have had such a tremendous reception that we are now planning to take our workshops to various other top cities across the country, such as Seattle and Los Angeles, which is seeing an ever-increasing number of entrepreneurs." Wade Nodine, a tech-entrepreneur who developed a blockchain solution to airline ticketing, says attending Dinucci's workshops have been massively beneficial. "First of all, I knew zilch about accounting, apart from buzzwords like debit and credit. What Frank introduced to us has been breathtaking: it's as simple as it is efficient.

"I didn't even need to learn all accounting principles, it was like an accounting software for dummies. Just enter simple data and bam, you have financial reports and what not! It's amazing, and I, and many others like me would have never known about cloud-based accounting services had it not been for Frank. I have personally saved so much money that I'm putting to better use with my project instead, and I no longer have to sweat about my accounts and finances situation. Cloud servers also make scaling possible, and no matter how much bigger my business gets, I can rest a little easier knowing there's at least one thing I need not worry about!" With such high praise bestowed upon Dinucci, it is clearly evident that he has significantly influenced and changed the lives of many budding entrepreneurs for the better.

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5 Stocks to Cash In on Cloud Computing – Kiplinger Personal Finance

Youve no doubt heard about the awesome and ubiquitous power of the cloud. It seems straightforward. You take everything on your computer, upload it to the cloud, andpoof!you can access your data, photos or programs from anywhere. But what is the cloud? Where is it? Its all a bit, well, nebulous.

Simply put, the cloud is a metaphor for the internet. Cloud computing means a user can store and access data and programs on the web, rather than on a hard drive. Companies that offer these storage and retrieval services are called cloud providers, and they charge based on usage, much as a utility does.

For an individual, accessing the cloud might mean uploading your digital photos to, say, Amazon Drive, rather than saving them on your computer or accessing an online version of Microsoft Word. For businesses, the shift to the cloud represents a huge cost savings. Companies with a lot of digital information used to have to build their own technology infrastructure, including data centers with rows of high-powered servers and expensive cooling systems. Now companies can access cloud providers infrastructure over the internet and pay only for what they use, potentially cutting IT spending by 20% to 60%, says investment research firm Morningstar.

For investors, the cloud represents an enticing opportunity, with worldwide cloud spending expected to reach $383 billion by the end of 2020, up from $247 billion in 2017, according to estimates from tech research firm Gartner. The following five companies range from big-name cloud service providers and companies that supply the service providers to a promising but unproven upstart. Its not a comprehensive list, but each of the five companies named below is well-positioned, in its own way, to capitalize on the ongoing cloud revolution.

Prices and data are from August 10, 2017. Click on ticker-symbol links in each slide for current prices and more.

Price-earnings ratios are based on estimated year-ahead earnings. Stocks are listed alphabetically.

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Global Cloud Computing Market 2017- Amazon Web Services, Aliyun, Microsoft Azure, IBM and Google Cloud Platform – Perfect Analyst

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Commerce Department Plans to Move Cybersecurity to the Cloud – FedTech Magazine

The Commerce Department wants to migrate three main cybersecurity programs to the cloud so that those security components can be run more efficiently.

The agency last month issued a request for information to industry on how it can best go about doing so. According to the RFI, the department wants to allow its CIO office to more easily get access and make changes to its cybersecurity monitoring environment.

Specifically, Commerce wants to move the applications and capabilities of its Enterprise Security Operations Center (ESOC), Enterprise Cybersecurity Monitoring and Operations (ECMO) and parts of its Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation (CDM) program to the cloud. The environment will need be a high impact level from a cloud service provider approved by the General Services Administrations Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

ESOC is the principal security operations center for the agency, and its responsible for coordinating communication with the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, the Office of Management and Budget and other agencies. ECMO fulfills an OMB requirement to continuously monitor security-related information from across the agency.

Currently, the programs are hosted in data centers and overseen by staff at two separate locations run by department components ESOC at a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility in Fairmont, W.Va., and ECMO at a National Institute of Standards and Technology location in Germantown, Md.

However, because those facilities are focused on the responsibilities and priorities of NOAA and NIST, they are not solely dedicated to responding to the Commerce Departments modifications, and agency staff cannot get access to make those changes, according to the RFI.

This has resulted in delays in configuration requests and in implementing new functionality, the RFI notes. Additionally, bandwidth adequacy and scalability has impacted the ESOCs capacity to quickly and efficiently analyze transmitted log data.

CDM gives agencies capabilities and tools that provide network administrators with real-time information about the state of their networks in order to describe the relative risk of specific cybersecurity threats and make it possible for agencies to rapidly identify and mitigate vulnerabilities. Currently, the CDM program is funded by DHS, which manages CDM for the government. However, the RFI notes, Commerce is required to begin funding components of the CDM program in 2018 and is considering migrating at least some of its storage and computing requirements to the cloud.

Migrating ESOC, ECMO and some parts of its CDM toolsets will allow Commerce to improve its access and ability to make timely changes to its cybersecurity monitoring environment. The cloud hosting environment would have the flexibility to easily scale in order to accommodate additional functionality and data log feeds as needed, and would offer a transparent pricing model to make costs predictable, the RFI adds.

Commerce has some specific ideas in mind for what it wants a cloud provider to bring to the table by hosting its cybersecurity, according to the RFI.

The winning contractor will analyze the agencys current hosting environments to determine the operating requirements of its current cybersecurity operations infrastructure. The winner will also recommend a cloud hosting architecture, considering the agencys current and future cybersecurity operations capabilities.

Additionally, the cloud provider will, in consultation with the agency, develop a project plan and oversee the migration of Commerces cybersecurity applications and operations to the federal cloud.

Further, the cloud provider will perform all necessary system security assessment and authorization activities in accordance with theFederal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014, NIST Special Publications, the departments Information Technology Security Program Policy, Commerce Information Technology Requirements and departmental policy memos.

To meet other security requirements, the cloud provider will need to collect all information required to conduct a supply chain risk assessment, provide ongoing maintenance and administration of the cloud hosting service, and help the agency develop a service-level agreement and appropriate metrics for cloud hosting availability, operations management and cost efficiency.

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Bitcoin vaults to new record above $4K, boosted by Japan and multiplying its value fourfold – CNBC

The digital currency bitcoin vaulted to a new record high above $4000 on Saturday, boosted by strong Japanese demand on its way to multiplying its value fourfold this year.

Bitcoin hit an all-time high of$4,225.40 early Sunday before slightly paring those gains to trade near $4,000, according toCoinDesk.

The digital currency has now quadrupled in 2017, and is up about 40 percent in August alone. Bitcoin's market value is now around $64 billion, up about $10 billion in the last week.

Bitcoin trade in Japanese yen accounted for nearly 46 percent of global trade volume, up from about a third a day ago, according to CryptoCompare. US-dollar bitcoin trade accounted for about 25 percent, according to CryptoCompare. Bitcoin trade in Chinese yuan and South Korean won accounted for about 12 percent each.

The surge picked up speed in the last week, mirroring gold's climb amid a global selloff in stocks and bonds. Rising worries about North Korea's nuclear threat have sent investors flocking to perceived safe-havens and alternative assets.

"Bitcoin is benefitting from geopolitical tensions - trading in Japan and Korea has increased significantly over the last few months," Brian Kelly, a CNBC contributor and head of BKCM, which runs an digital asset strategy, said in an email. He also attributed price gains to investors buying back bitcoin after the Aug. 1 split and greater attention from the Russian government.

Analysts have also noted increased investor interest, especially from institutional investors, after bitcoin successfully survived an Aug. 1 split into bitcoin and bitcoin cash.

This week, Fidelity launched a feature allowing customers to also view their Coinbase bitcoin holdings. The currency also got a boost from Goldman Sachs, which in a report released this week said it is harder for institutional investors to ignore cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.

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Bitcoin just passed $4000 – TechCrunch

What a day for Bitcoin.

24 hours ago the cryptocurrency was trading below $3,700. About an hour ago it surged passed $4,000 and has no signs of stopping. Its now trading around $4,135.00. For reference, a week ago Bitcoin hit an all-time high as it passed $3,000 for the first time.

Check out the chart below to see what the price has done in the last 24 hours.

So the million dollarbitcoin question iswhy now?

Without wasting too much of your Saturday night with detailed analysis, here are a few possible reasons you can tell your friends during brunch tomorrow.

Two weeks ago Bitcoin went through a hard fork, and came out essentially unscathed. Sure, a bitcoin-clone called Bitcoin Cash was created, but its gotten a lot less attention than most people expected. A few days later Bitcoin locked in SegWit, a code modification that fixesmalleability issues and frees up space in blocks, allowing for more transactions to be stored in each one.

These two code-related developments have helped boost conference in Bitcoins future.

Another reason the ICO frenzy. The amount recently raised via initial coin offerings have now (at least temporally) topped amount raised via early stage venture capital. Just last week Filecoin raised $180 million in a few hours. Most investors have to convert fiat currency to bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to participate in ICOs, which could be driving up the price (and providing some investors with their first taste of bitcoin).

Another reason Wall Streets new obsession is bitcoin. You cant watch CNBC for five minutes without seeing a trader or analyst give their opinion which is usually something insanely bullish like its going to be the best performing investment of the year. For better or for worse, statements like these are getting non-technically inclined investors interested in bitcoin, some of which are definitely buying coins for the first time.

So what happens next? No one knows. Bitcoin could crash 50% to $2,000 tomorrow or spike to $5,000 and I dont think anyone who truly knows crypto would be surprised at either option. E

veryone has a different opinion some say the bubble is oversized and should have popped months ago others think that bitcoin is currently just a fraction of what it could eventually trade at.

Whichever camp you fall in, heres one friendly reminder: dont invest more than you can afford to lose because if you ask anyone whos spent more than a few months in the cryptocurrency world theyll tell you its a roller coaster.

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Bitcoin breaks $4000 – BetaNews

The price of Bitcoin continues to rise, with the cryptocurrency now trading at over $4,000. It's only a matter of days since the price set at record when it passed $3,500, but this has now been broken already.

The surge has been driven by Japanese interest in the currency, and trading currently stands at just under $4,200. After something of a wobbly period, the rise in Bitcoin has been fuelled by investors seeing it as a quick way to make a healthy return.

The recent creation of Bitcoin Cash did not kill off the cryptocurrency in the way some feared. Rather the forking of Bitcoin seems to have renewed interest in the currency, and the current trading price means that Bitcoin has more than quadrupled in value. The market value of Bitcoin is around $64 billion at the moment.

It's not clear how long Bitcoin will be able to continue its seemingly inexorable rise, or quite when the bubble will burst -- for burst it must. Investors have ensured something of a rollercoaster ride with Bitcoin, and while many people have been able to make a decent return on their investment, there are plenty of others who have lost out.

While Bitcoin has risen in value by 7 percent over the last 24 hours, its counterpart Ethereum has dropped by nearly 4.5 percent.

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$126 Billion: The Cryptocurrency Market Just Set a New All-Time High – CoinDesk

The total value of all cryptocurrencies set a new all-time high today, rising above $126 billion for the first time in history, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

The new benchmark was set at 8:00 UTC and comes just four days after the crypto asset class set aprevious recordabove $116 billion.

At press time, the price increase appears to be driven by a new influx of capital into bitcoin, the markets oldest and perhaps best understood asset. Over the last seven days, the value of one bitcoin is up more than 20%, rising to over $3,500 from $2,854 last Friday.

During that time, the total value of its coin supply also rose, climbing in value to $57 billion from $47 billion a week ago.

Strong gains have also been seen in the top-10 cryptocurrencies by market cap.

Neo (formerly Antshares), a well-publicized project out of China saw its market capitalization pass $1 billion for the first time. Over the past seven days, it has seen its market capitalization rise to $1.7 billion, up from $550 million, as its price per coin climbed to $34, up from roughly $10 seven days ago.

Elsewhere, IOTA also rose to $1.7 billion, up from $1.1 billion, while ether, the native cryptocurrency on the ethereum blockchain, increased its total market cap to $28 billion, up from $21 billion aweek ago.

But that's not to say all cryptocurrencies have seen such big movementsduring the period.

Bitcoin cash, the cryptocurrency created in last week's bitcoin fork, added little new value to its market, inching up to $5.4 billion, from $5.1 billion a week ago.

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Ukraine’s Central Bank Moves Closer to Cryptocurrency Regulation – CoinDesk

The National Bank of Ukraine, the country's central bank, has indicated it may soonseek to regulate the use of cryptocurrencies.

While a clear outline for the initiative is still absent, in its latest announcement, the central bank said the legal implications of cryptocurrencies will be discussed at the next Financial Stability Board of Ukraine meeting at the end of August.

The decision comes at a time when Ukraine is seeing increased bitcoin activity, from payments to mining to blockchain development, but also when regulatory uncertainty hasled its law enforcementto take steps to reprimand bitcoin users.

Just days ago, Ukrainian police arrested several suspects who allegedly set up 200 computers to mine bitcoins at an abandoned swimming pool withina state institute in Kiev.

According to local media Kyiv Post, the court documentaccused the suspectsof illegally taking advantage of state property, and producing a currency, which is currently a function only the National Bank is legally allowed to do. Further, the law also states that no other currency besides theUkrainian Hryvnia can be treated as legal payment in Ukraine.

Citing the different approaches taken by other countries in defining cryptocurrencies, the banking authority will now begin itsdiscussion withthe Ministry of Finance, State Fiscal Service, the State Financial Monitoring Service, Securities and Stock Market State Commission and the National Commission for the State Regulation of Financial Services Markets.

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Nvidia shares fall on data center revenue but chips ride cryptocurrency boom – Reuters

(Reuters) - Nvidia Corp's quarterly revenue in its widely watched data center and automotive businesses missed estimates, dragging down the chipmaker's shares that have nearly tripled in value over the past 12 months.

Nvidia shares were down 6.6 percent at $153.87 in extended trading on Thursday. Shares have risen 181 percent over the past year, the strongest performance across the benchmark S&P 500 index.

Nvidia came to prominence in the gaming industry for designing graphics-processing chips, but in recent years has been expanding into newer technologies including cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars.

"Nvidia was priced for perfection heading into earnings," said Loop Capital analyst Betsy Van Hees, adding the company did not have any room for anything but perfection.

Revenue from Nvidia's data center business which counts Amazon.com Inc's Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp's Azure cloud business among its customers more than doubled to $416 million but missed estimates of $423.3 million, according to FactSet.

Automotive business revenue surged 19.3 percent to $142 million, but also fell short of analyst expectations of $146.2 million, according to financial and data analytics firm FactSet.

The data center business is still relatively small and is driven by small number of customers who can change preferences tremendously from quarter to quarter, said Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon.

It can be a big opportunity in the long term but is unpredictable in the near term, Rasgon added. "The issue here is that.. it's a lumpy business."

However, earnings and revenue easily beat analysts' targets, partly due to strength in its traditional gaming chips, that are also used to process cryptocurrency transactions, said Chief Executive Jensen Huang on a post-earnings call on Thursday.

Bitcoin made cryptocurrencies popular in recent years, but newer technologies, including Ethereum, have sparked a wave of mining using high-end gaming graphics cards. Miners use computers to process cryptocurrency transactions, and they are rewarded with additional cryptocurrency.

"Cryptocurrency and blockchain is here to stay. The market need for it is going to grow. And over time, it will become quite large," Hang said.

Net income more than doubled to $583 million, or 92 cents per share, in the second quarter ended July 30.

Nvidia's total revenue rose 56 percent to $2.23 billion, beating estimates of $1.96 billion.

For the third quarter, Nvidia said it expects revenue to be $2.35 billion, plus or minus 2 percent. Analysts were expecting $2.13 billion.

Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Bengaluru; Editing by Diane Craft and Lisa Shumaker

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