Author: Ashley Slimmerts

Home warranty companies rely on the same referral engine that drives business for title reps and lenders: a real estate agent controls the timing of a transaction, and whoever reaches that agent first has the advantage. But according to AgentBrief founder Mike Simon, the parallel breaks down once you look at when in the transaction each of those professionals actually needs to show up. AgentBrief built its platform on title reps first, expanded into lending earlier this year, and is now applying the same real-time MLS data to home warranty providers. Simon says the underlying signal is identical across all…

For years, an investor closing ten deals a year paid the same origination fee percentage as someone closing one. That flat-fee structure is starting to give way to something else: financing priced around the borrower’s track record and volume, not just the deal in front of them. “Investors doing multiple transactions in a shorter period of time deserve a cheaper cost of financing, and they typically weren’t getting that on a deal by deal basis,” said Adam Eldibany, founder homebldr, who has watched the pattern play out across active investors. “Lenders and brokers weren’t going to offer a discount without…

LAS VEGAS, USA Wealthcraft Capital, Inc. (OTC: WCCP) and XLabs Inc. announced that all due diligence in connection with their proposed share exchange has been completed. The companies are now moving to finalize the definitive share exchange documentation and complete the transaction as soon as practicable. The proposed transaction includes XLabs’ patent assets and related intellectual property as part of the XLabs business being acquired. Upon closing, XLabs will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Wealthcraft Capital, with those assets held through XLabs With due diligence complete, the parties’ focus is on completing the final transaction documents and remaining closing…

Crypto payments can make a digital platform feel borderless, but the infrastructure behind them is anything but simple. A product such as NuxGame’s bitcoin casino solution has to coordinate wallets, blockchain confirmations, internal balances, identity controls, reporting, and jurisdiction-specific requirements. That makes cryptocurrency integration a financial-technology problem as much as a payment feature. For companies building crypto-native products, regulation and architecture can no longer be planned separately. Decisions about custody, transaction monitoring, data storage, and wallet verification affect both the technical stack and the operating model. A platform designed first and adapted to regulatory requirements later can create significantly more…

NEW YORK, NY  Live Presentations and Q&A Across Community and Regional Banking, Wealth Management, Logistics Real Estate, and Bitcoin Treasury Companies From US, UK and Canadian Markets Present Live Online, with Replays On Demand B2i Digital, Inc. invites investors to the Financial Services Virtual Investor Conference, a B2i Digital Featured Conference, taking place online on Thursday, September 24, 2026, and hosted by Virtual Investor Conferences. As the Official Marketing Partner, B2i Digital highlights the conference and the presenting companies to a media network with a monthly audience of 330 million and a community of 1.7 million investors. Event details…

Sarasota, Florida Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics Inc., (NASDAQ: LABT, the “Company”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing a novel class of potent, fast-acting, broad-spectrum antimicrobials for infectious diseases called the Bisphosphocin® class, today announced that it has obtained central and all site Institutional Review Board (IRB) approvals and confirmed clinical trial site readiness to commence its Phase 2a clinical trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of its lead product candidate, Nu-3, in patients with mildly infected diabetic foot ulcers (iDFU). Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics Inc. is a new B2i Digital Featured Company. The company’s complete profile is coming soon at https://b2idigital.com/featured-companies “Together, these milestones mark…

Gold, Silver and Bronze honors recognize Helpany and United Zion across Fall Prevention, Creative Use of AI and Quality—following a 70% reduction in falls and culminating in zero falls. Phoenix, AZ  Senior care has long been built around responding to incidents after they happen. Helpany is working to change that equation by giving care teams earlier insight into changes in resident well-being, mobility and fall risk, all without cameras or microphones. At the center of all three recognitions is one achievement: United Zion achieved zero falls. That work has earned Helpany and United Zion three honors at the 16th annual…

For much of its recent history, Nasdaq-traded Worksport has been valued on its ability to grow: more products, more distribution, more manufacturing capacity. Its second-quarter results and a record July order month point to a different question, and one the market tends to reward differently. The U.S.-based automotive and clean-energy company is now spending materially less cash to generate materially more revenue. In the quarter ended June 30, Worksport reported record net sales of $5.23 million, up 27.4% year over year and 57.9% from the first quarter. Gross profit rose 93.2% sequentially to $1.65 million. Most consequentially for a company…

For years, I thought sports betting looked the same everywhere. Pick your team, place your wager, win or lose money. Pretty universal, right? Wrong. Completely wrong. Last year I started digging into African betting markets and what I discovered blew up everything I thought I knew. Malawi specifically caught my attention because they’ve built something that operates on fundamentally different principles than what we see stateside. I’m talking about betting sites in malawi running under regulatory frameworks that make our system look ancient. The Numbers Don’t Lie Between 2021 and 2024, mobile betting adoption in sub-Saharan Africa jumped by 347…

Singapore  Tujamo confirmed for a 3,000-capacity night at one of Asia’s most storied venues, with a headliner announcement still to come. The Best Event, the production house behind more than 130 events across 24 cities globally, will bring AFTERDARK to Singapore’s Capitol Theatre on October 5 — a single, standalone night built for the week Token2049 and the Singapore Grand Prix collide on the same calendar. Tujamo is confirmed on the lineup, with a headliner announcement still to come and additional artists to be named in the following weeks.  The Best Event is expecting more than 5,000 registrations for…

Toronto, Ontario  ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (BMV: ZENA) (“ZenaTech”), a technology solution provider specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drone, Drone as a Service (DaaS), enterprise SaaS, and Quantum Computing solutions, announces that it has been selected as a qualified supplier under the Government of Canada’s Defence Drone Initiative (DDI) Marketplace. The qualification establishes ZenaTech as part of the Government of Canada’s pre-qualified supplier pool, creating a pathway to compete for future defense and security drone requirements supporting the Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian Coast Guard. ZenaTech, Inc. is a B2i Digital Featured Company. See the company’s in-depth…

San Bernardino, California Today, San Diego civil rights firm McKenzie Scott PC filed a federal civil rights lawsuit [case number 5:26-cv-05407] against the County of San Bernardino on behalf of the Serna family, whose beloved Rottweiler, Daisy, was shot and killed by a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputy who entered their fenced backyard without a warrant on May 4, 2026. The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, follows the County’s rejection of the family’s government claim on August 7. It names the County and the deputy who shot Daisy –…

NEW YORK, NY  Mineral Exploration Company Is Drilling in British Columbia and Has Acquired an Advanced Phosphate Project in Utah First Assay Results Are Due in September, With an Updated Mineral Resource Estimate Expected in the Fourth Quarter B2i Digital, Inc. today announced Canadian Phosphate Limited (ASX: CP8 | OTCQB: CPHOF) as its newest Featured Company. The Australian company is building a phosphate business across North America, in a mineral the United States, Canada and the European Union each classify as critical. B2i Digital will introduce the company to its network of retail and institutional market participants, with a…

NEW YORK, NY  Presentations, Two Panels and One-on-One Meetings in Knoxville, Tennessee, Then a Day Inside Oak Ridge National Laboratory Uranium Enrichment, Small Modular Reactors, Microreactors, Fast Reactors, Molten Salt Reactors, Fusion and Waste Disposal B2i Digital, Inc. is the Marketing Partner for the Nuclear Innovation Summit, a B2i Digital Featured Conference hosted by StoneX in Knoxville and Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on September 23 and 24, 2026. B2i Digital highlights the summit and the participating companies to a media network with a monthly audience of 330 million and a community of 1.7 million investors. Day 1, September 23, at…

New launchpad enables crypto communities to launch tokens, accumulate public-company shares and coordinate around corporate ownership Cayman  Genius Foundation today announced the launch of genius.fun, a new BNB Chain launchpad designed to help online communities coordinate capital and pursue ownership in publicly traded companies. Genius.fun connects internet-native tokens with tokenized public-company shares, enabling decentralized communities to organize around a company, accumulate its equity and pursue shareholder initiatives, board representation or even hostile takeovers. By applying crypto-native markets and permissionless coordination to public-company ownership, it offers an alternative to structures traditionally dominated by investment banks, private-equity firms and activist funds.…

Commission-free marketplace Relli points to regulation, technology, and a shift toward retail capital as the forces bringing private real estate within reach of ordinary investors. Relli, the commission-free private real estate marketplace, says the private real estate market is undergoing a structural shift that is opening deals once reserved for the wealthy to a far broader base of everyday investors. According to co-founder and CEO Mor Milo, a combination of regulation, technology, and macroeconomic pressure is steadily dismantling the six-figure barrier that has long kept most Americans out. For decades, participating in a private real estate deal meant writing a…

Ask most college students what “working with AI” looks like, and the answer is usually a chatbot. That gap between perception and reality is exactly what pushed Dallas, Texas-based Outamation to start training students on real AI problems years before AI internships became a common line on a resume. Nirmal Patel, Outamation’s Chief AI Officer, and Devang Kamdar, the company’s Chief Technology Officer, were both once interns themselves, working inside the mortgage industry before founding technology built for it. That experience shaped how they think about bringing new people into the field today. Why AI Chatbots Aren’t The Whole Picture…

Maryland’s cash home buying industry has grown quickly enough that the vetting burden has effectively shifted onto the seller – and the operators best positioned to hold onto business in that environment are the ones making that vetting easier, not harder. Justin Mitchell, founder of Frederick-based Maryland Cash Home Buyers, has watched this shift from the buyer’s side of the table for years. In his experience, the sellers who end up burned are rarely the ones dealing with an obviously bad actor. They’re the ones who didn’t know which questions to ask, in a market where the answers vary widely…

A deep-dive founder feature goes inside the RICO and white-collar defense strategy of a New York attorney building his practice — and his public voice — on hard truths, not comfortable ones. NEW YORK, NY, September 17, 2026 (PinionNewswire) New York-based attorney Leo Shalit, founder and principal of Shalit Group — Attorneys at Law, is stepping into the spotlight as a founder-level, disruptive voice in federal criminal defense, RICO, and complex white-collar matters, backed by a strategic focus on thought leadership and high-stakes casework. As federal prosecutions grow more data-driven and more aggressive, Shalit’s rise reflects a broader shift in…

Could XRP be quietly signaling that the next big crypto wave is already taking shape? The XRP Ledger just delivered its highest-ever number of transactions in a single ledger, packing 3,254 transactions into one block, with the network reportedly closing the ledger in seconds. While many of those transfers were tiny 1-drop payments and likely related to throughput testing, the record still puts XRPL’s capacity and activity firmly back in the spotlight. That renewed attention could keep XRP on traders’ radar as they hunt for the next big crypto opportunity, while other speculative names compete for the spotlight. But the…

Athens, Greece  TOP Ships Inc. (the “Company” or “TOP Ships”) (NYSE American: TOPS), an international owner and operator of modern, fuel-efficient “ECO” tanker vessels, today announced its financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2026. The Company reported net income of $6.5 million, revenues of $25.5 million, EBITDA of $17.2 million and net cash provided by operating activities of $11.1 million. Basic and diluted earnings per common share were $0.68 and $0.61, respectively. As of June 30, 2026, the Company had cash and cash equivalents (including restricted cash) of $13.3 million, total assets of $373.5 million and total…

Longtime TCF supporter Mike Nithavrianakis is taking on a series of international marathons to raise $1 million for children’s education in Pakistan  CHICAGO, Illinois  Former British diplomat Mike Nithavrianakis is dedicating his 2026 marathon season to advancing children’s education in Pakistan through the Global Run for Education. The campaign aims to raise $1 million in support of The Citizens Foundation (TCF) and expand access to quality education for children from underserved communities. Nithavrianakis has already completed the Milan Marathon on April 12, the London Marathon on April 26 and the Sydney Marathon on August 30. His campaign will continue…

Crypto markets are moving through another fast-changing chapter in 2026. Dogecoin remains the market benchmark, Official Trump continues to anchor smart-contract activity, and new projects are competing for attention through fresh narratives. Among them, Apeing is drawing attention through its live presale, staged pricing, and community-focused meme coin identity. For readers searching for the top crypto presale, Apeing offers a different story from established assets such as DOGE and Official Trump. Its live token sale is progressing through structured stages, with each stage carrying its own price and allocation. That early-entry model is also why searches around the next big…

The Short Answer: The Cheapest LinkedIn Automation Tools in 2026 New York, USA, September 16, 2026 No tool wins every ownership scenario. Under one common rule—the lowest paid tier with multi-step LinkedIn campaigns, reply detection, and basic export—the resolved monthly prices run from $15 to $79, plus Waalaxy at €39. Linked Helper, Dux-Soup, Waalaxy, Dripify, and Botdog meet that rule. Octopus CRM Advanced is shown for comparison but excluded from the qualifying rank because it lacks automatic reply detection. Annual billing changes the documented effective rates to Linked Helper $8.25, Octopus $14.99, Dux-Soup $41.25, Waalaxy €19, Dripify $59, and Botdog…

Dubai, UAE, September 16th, 2026- Zameera, a global ultra-luxury travel company curating extraordinary experiences for ultra-high-net-worth clients, and PayitFast, a digital payments platform, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Zameera and Verati, PayitFast’s dedicated lifestyle and concierge platform. The partnership will bring a curated selection of Zameera’s ultra-luxury travel experiences to PayitFast members through Verati, giving members access to unique destinations and rare-access adventures. The initial selection includes some of Zameera’s most distinctive journeys, among them a private safari camp on Kenya’s Maasai Mara, a heli-skiing week beneath Iceland’s midnight sun, and a two-part journey through…