Wolters Kluwer is launching a major new tool for researching within its CCH Intelliconnect research platform. The product, CCH CodeConnect, will be rolled out in December to IntelliConnect subscribers and is designed to provide what the company describes as providing not just information via a search but actionable information.

Accounting firms are naming CPAs to technology positions as cloud-based software applications are becoming more common. CPA Donny Shimomoto managing director of Honolulu, Hawaii-based IntrapriseTechKnowlogies, believes the creation of these positions occurs as the cloud shifts pure technology functions away from firms that use web-based applications.

William Ruckelshaus, the CEO of Blucora, has announced he will resign as president and CEO once a successor is found. The decision came on heels of its purchase of HD Vest Financial Services and plans to explore alternatives for its InfoSpace and Monoprice businesses, with divestiture of those web-based businesses likely.