TurboTax Live, which offers professional assistance to consumers, had a rough start to tax season this year. But the product improved significantly by the end of the season, according to Greg Johnson, the EVP who leads Intuit’s consumer tax business said this week.

Online software vendor Xero is issuing $300 million in notes to provide funds for acquisition. The offering for 2.375 per cent guaranteed senior unsecured convertible notes due 2023, which will trade on the Singapore exchange, is expected to closed on October 4.

Microsoft has added a feature to Excel that enables the convert photographs of tables into Excel files. The company this week announced the Insert Data from Picture feature at its Ignite conference as part of a long list of new products and capabilities. It is also giving Excel the ability to deal with more data types.