Google's second-quarter results featured revenues of $US6.82 billion, up 24% on the year-ago period.

The developer of MoneyWorks has released a free utility to import data from MYOB or AccountEdge.

Yahoo!'s first quarter results show a revenue improvement on 2009, but only a small one.

Significant changes at Synergy Plus (formerly Computercorp) saw the group return to profitability in 2009.

Emerging Australian security powerhouse TrustDefender is quietly beavering away and winning big deals in the UK and Europe to uniquely secure the authentication, log-in process and session used by some of the continent’s biggest financial institutions, other enterprises and their customers, putting the trust back into Internet transactions where traditional security solutions have failed.

More good financial news: Microsoft has joined the list of companies reporting record results for the quarter ending December 2009.

Amazon has reported fourth-quarter sales of $US9.52 billion, compared with $US6.70 billion in 2008. The Kindle seems to be part of that success.

The Pacific region has been a growth area for Citrix, with revenue up 21%.  The company didn't fare so well in the Americas or EMEA, but still saw growth.

Australia’s largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, has been undergoing a series of phishing attacks that have gone from simple alerts of “banking errors”, through to chances of winning money, and now an attack that wants CommBank users to call a number and verify their details to a talking computer – but it’s all just a phishing scam!

Prominent Australian and New Zealand payroll software company, Sage MicrOpay, has issued version 5 of their flagship Meridian product. For existing customers the upgrade is a seamless process except for one thing - it ignores every single saved setting and customisation.