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Technology solutions and tools for modern financial management
Broadcom Q2 FY2026 (quarter ended May 3, 2026): $22.19B revenue, $10.8B AI revenue (+143% YoY) crossing half of semiconductor sales, $9.31B net income — tracked via public Beancount ledger FY2021–FY2026Q2.
FAA Part 108 replaces one-off Part 107 BVLOS waivers with 24-month permits and certificates for drones up to 1,320 lbs. Learn the five cost buckets, insurance pricing at $475-$4,000 per drone, and the cost-per-flight-minute formula that turns BVLOS approvals into profitable pricing.
Netflix Q2 2026: $12.56B revenue (+13% YoY), $3.40B net income at 27% margin as ad-tier and price hikes compound — tracked via public Beancount ledger FY2021–FY2026Q2.
AMD Q2 2026: $11.5B revenue (+50% YoY) as data-center sales more than double to $6.7B, gross margin 54%, operating leverage returns — tracked via public Beancount ledger.
Shopify Q2 2026: $3.58B revenue (+34% YoY) on $115.6B GMV, $488M operating income and an 18% free-cash-flow margin; $1.25B of investment gains lift net income to $1.5B — tracked via public Beancount ledger.
Spotify Q2 2026: EUR 4.78B revenue (+14% YoY), 300M Premium subscribers, a record 33.4% gross margin and EUR 655M operating income; net income of EUR 545M against a EUR 86M loss a year ago — tracked via public Beancount ledger.
Palantir's FY2026 Q2 revenue surged 93% to $1.935 billion as U.S. commercial revenue jumped 149% to $764 million, lifting GAAP operating margin to 47% and forcing full-year guidance to $8.15 billion (+82% YoY) — the second straight quarter of accelerating hypergrowth at software's most debated valuation.
Maryland's new 3% sales tax on IT, data processing, software publishing, and computer systems design services (NAICS 518, 519, 5132, 5415) took effect July 1, 2025 with no revenue threshold, so SaaS founders, freelance developers, and IT consultants with even one Maryland customer may owe it — this guide covers what's taxable, how sourcing and MPU certificates work, and how to book the liability separately from your 6% sales tax.
Starting July 1, 2026, Virginia charges data centers $0.011 per kWh of electricity consumed — the first per-kWh data center tax in the U.S. Here is how the pass-through reaches your colocation or cloud bill, how to estimate your exposure, and how to track it in your books.
AI content risks in 2026: copyright suits against AI trainers, hallucinated citations sanctioned by courts, and securities claims for overpromising AI.
Verisk/ISO CG 40 47, CG 40 48, CG 35 08 exclude generative AI losses from CGL from Jan 1 2026 — what is excluded and how to close the gap.
Starting September 15, 2026, Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers by default on ad-carrying pages for free-tier and new accounts, part of a broader shift from Pay Per Crawl to a Pay Per Use monetization model that lets site owners charge AI companies when content actually creates value.
