US venture capital investment in cleantech companies in 2Q09 reached $572 million, an increase of 73% in terms of capital, with 48 financing rounds, a 100% increase in number of transactions compared to 1Q09, according to an Ernst & Young LLP analysis based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource.

After many months of agonizingly slow sales, automakers and dealers are anxiously counting on the cash-for-clunkers program, getting under way officially on July 27, to help clear their lots.

Andrew Weiss, CEO of CoAxia, was able to raise $21.5 million in venture capital that will fund ongoing clinical trials of the companya s therapies to treat ischemic stroke.

A global consulting company that rose from the ashes of the destroyed accounting firm Arthur Andersen is now facing a scandal of its own.

For instance, Genentech CEO Arthur Levinson still serves on both the board of Apple and Google .

The KPMG Foundation is marking the 15th anniversary of its Minority Accounting Doctoral Scholarship program by announcing today it has awarded a total of $390,000 in scholarships to 39 minority doctoral scholars for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.

The Board of Directors of Kingsway International Holdings Limited announced today that KPMG LLP, Chartered Accountants , resigned as auditor of the Company and that Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has been appointed as the Company's successor auditor.

The industry will be changed forever by this recession. What will it look like on the other side? - Steve McClellan According to a new report from audit and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, advertising expenditures worldwide will total $467.3 billion by 2013.

MEDIA companies will increasingly have to rely on consumers' wallets to drive growth and offset the permanent loss of advertising dollars in the shift to the digital world, a study has found.

Software firm Intuit Inc. plans to hire 100 employees over the next 12 months for its south metro Denver office.

The government has some explaining to do amid revelations that a promised, and then cancelled, independent review of scandal-plagued eHealth Ontario never got underway, the opposition parties said Monday.

Posted August 10th, 2009 by theStockMasters... in Talk about flushing money down the toilet, check this article out from cnnmoney.com, our healthcare system needs to change.

Richard H. Smith, once charged in the biggest tax fraud ever, owes his lawyers a debt of gratitude for getting him out of what could have been life in prison.

Intuit Inc. has dedicated its new data center in the Grant County farming community of Quincy.

New York - August 11, 2009 - With procurement fraud cases continuing to proliferate, companies must put into place effective strategies and procedures that mitigate risk in an effort to prevent procurement fraud, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers .

Their client base now officially falls under the Blytheco, LLC umbrella. The transaction will further strengthen Blytheco's sales and professional services practice in the upper Midwest region and expand the firm's national presence.

After months of speculation and closed-door negotiations, the Walled Lake City Council and City Treasurer Catherine Behrens have formally parted ways via a separation agreement approved by the council at a Wednesday, Aug.

New figures on the housing market show an increase in mortgage activity during the second quarter of the year compared with the previous quarter.

Regional stocks were caught in the market sell-off Monday, with Cerner, UMB Financial and Kansas City Southern taking the biggest point hits.

There's no doubt that as an activist investor, former Securities and Exchange Commission boss Richard Breeden can rattle sabres with the best of them -- but whether he makes money from it is another matter.

Former clients of Lehman Brothers in Europe may have to wait longer than hoped to get $16bn of assets back after the High Court rejected a proposal by PricewaterhouseCoopers to accelerate the process.

Concur Technologies Inc., which makes corporate expense-management software, said Monday that it signed a deal with Southwest Airlines Co.

VFM Leonardo Chosen as Exclusive Provider of Hotel Visual Content for Concur's Corporate Travel Booking Solutions Largest distributor of visual content for hotels worldwide expands relationship with Concur making their photos, virtual tours and video available to thousands of corporate customers.

This post looks at the recent performance of Intuit and ADP. Strengthening its SaaS strategy, Intuit recently acquired PayCycle, which was at the top of my recommendation list for a SaaS roll-up. Its lineup of SaaS offerings now accounts for about $900 million in revenue, an increase of 22%, faster than the company average.

Boeing S&P Equity Research upgrades to buy from hold Boeing announced Thursday that the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner is expected by the end of 2009 and first delivery is expected to occur in fourth quarter 2010.

The sexual assault allegations didn't stop when nursing aide James W. Wright left the National HealthCare nursing home.

Administrators of the London arm of Lehman Brothers said the claims it is handling against the collapsed Wall Street bank could total as much as $100 billion.

TROUBLED property group Trinity is investigating whether it can take legal action over a secret $1 million success fee paid to Queensland lobbyist Ross Daley.