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OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 9, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — California Waste Solutions, Inc. has received messages of support and congratulations from business partners, lenders and civic figures as it approaches its 35th anniversary in 2027. The letters and comments arrive as the Oakland-based company increases investment in recycling technology and pursues environmental infrastructure projects abroad.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 9, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — What’s in the case? Registration is now open, and players across the US can try to find out. “What’s In The Silver Case?” is a live mystery that begins inside “The Man With the Silver Case,” the black-and-white neo-noir thriller from writer-director Colin Best, and moves into Los Angeles, with a $25,000 prize for the winner.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 9, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — On Ageism Awareness Day, leaders at 3rd3rd Marketing, the “Un-Senior Living Agency,” are challenging senior living organizations to take a closer look at the images, language and assumptions they use to communicate with consumers. The World Health Organization defines ageism as stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination directed toward people based on their age.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 8, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — ViewTech Borescopes will exhibit at the ASNT Annual Conference from October 12-15 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, showcasing its latest advancements in remote visual inspection technology, including a new screen replicator tablet designed to enhance the flexibility and convenience of industrial borescope inspections.
TORRANCE, Calif., Oct. 8, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — DocMagic® announced today that Chief Operating Officer Lori Johnson has been named one of Mortgage Banker’s 2026 Powerful Women of Mortgage Banking. The award recognizes women in mortgage banking who stand out as leaders by driving innovation, adapting to change and making a positive impact on their organizations, colleagues and the industry.
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 7, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — FirstClose™, a leading fintech provider of data and workflow solutions for home equity and mortgage lenders nationwide, today released the results of an independent study by MarketWise Advisors, LLC, examining the value of improvements in operational readiness and execution for home equity lenders. Participating lenders reported an average financial and operational impact of $753.04 per loan, a 7.99x return, across the core and extended capabilities MarketWise modeled.
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 7, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Down Payment Resource (DPR), the housing industry’s leading affordability intelligence platform, today announced three additions to its team: Melissa Roy as a partner solutions engineer, April Espinosa as a down payment assistance programs specialist and Jeff Smith as a housing finance agency (HFA) relationship manager.
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 7, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — New analysis from iEmergent, a forecasting and advisory services firm for the financial services, mortgage and real estate industries, finds that mortgage access gaps for low-income households are substantially wider than neighborhood-level data suggests. The analysis draws on the last five years of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data.
HAMMONTON, N.J., Oct. 7, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Service First Information Solutions LLC (Service 1st), a leading provider of credit reporting and verification solutions for the mortgage and other industries, is celebrating 100 years in business. Over the past century, Service 1st has expanded well beyond its roots in mortgage credit reporting.
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 7, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — ACES Quality Management® (ACES), the leading provider of enterprise quality management and control software for the financial services industry, announced today that it has been named one of the AI Pioneer Award winners by PROGRESS in Lending. Honorees include 14 financial technology companies whose AI work spans the loan lifecycle from origination through servicing.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 6, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Industrial SalesLeads announced today the September 2026 results for the new planned capital project spending report for the Industrial Manufacturing industry. The Firm tracks North American planned industrial capital project activity, including facility expansions, new plant construction and significant equipment modernization projects. Research confirms 156 new projects in the Industrial Manufacturing sector.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Oct. 6, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — California Safe Schools (CSS), in partnership with the California Air Resources Board (CARB), has launched a statewide public-education campaign to help Californians recognize unnecessary diesel idling, understand California’s idling requirements, and report suspected violations near schools, homes, childcare facilities, hospitals, senior facilities, and other sensitive locations.
BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 6, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — LenderLogix, a provider of mortgage point-of-sale and automation software, today announced that FocusOne, a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), has implemented its LiteSpeed point-of-sale platform as part of its continued investment in technology designed to help credit union partners deliver a modern, streamlined mortgage experience to their members.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 6, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — June Point Lending Inc. (June Point Lending), a tech-forward wholesale non-QM lender, announced today it is offering debt service coverage ratio (DSCR) loans in California, its 19th state for DSCR lending and one of the country’s largest broker markets. California brokers gain access to June Point Lending’s proprietary technology infrastructure.
BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 6, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Floify, the mortgage industry’s leading point-of-sale (POS) solution, has selected Bryan Traeger as its new general manager. Traeger will lead Floify’s next phase of growth with a focus on expanding the company’s use of AI and push the boundaries of the borrower and lender experience. Traeger officially assumes the GM role on October 12 and will be at MBA Annual in Chicago, October 12-14, booth 600.
BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 5, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Author Yuri Gascon presents “Friday Guy: The Highs and Lows of the Non-ordinary Life of an Ordinary Man” (ISBN: 978-1834541075) released by Tellwell Publishing, a deeply personal memoir drawn from his own experiences with childhood trauma, family dysfunction, shame, abuse, and the long process of finding a way forward.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 5, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — SecuGen Corporation, a leading provider of fingerprint recognition technology, today announced that the FIDO Alliance has certified SecuGen’s Unity™ 20 FIDO2 fingerprint security key. The key is FIDO® Certified for FIDO2 at Authenticator Security Assurance Level 1. It creates and stores passkeys for passwordless, phishing-resistant sign-in to compatible websites and applications.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct., 5, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Dark Matter Technologies (Dark Matter), an innovative leader in home lending technology, today announced an integration with Mezzo, creator of the mortgage industry’s first one-to-many operating architecture for third-party services. Available through Dark Matter’s Exchange℠ Partner Marketplace, the integration gives lenders using the Empower® Loan Origination Solution a single gateway and workflow across multiple verification providers.
MONTEZUMA COUNTY, Colo., Oct. 5, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — NoValleyRange, a neighborhood group located near Mesa Verde (a UNESCO World Heritage site and National Park), are fighting a Texas developer proposing a $240 million dollar solar and lithium battery development. The proposed project consists of 900 acres of solar panels and 8 acres of lithium battery storage at the base of Colorado’s only UNESCO world heritage site.
WEST GROVE, Pa., Oct. 2, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Jenner’s Pond, a Simpson senior living community, announced the opening of a new virtual golf center created through a resident-led effort and support from the Simpson Foundation. What began as one resident’s idea soon became a community project, the Jenner’s Pond Virtual Golf Center.
CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Residents, team members and neighbors of Hartwell Place, the boutique memory care community of Chicago Methodist Senior Services (CMSS) in Andersonville, will walk together at its fourth annual Neighborhood Memory Walk on Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 1:30 p.m. The walk will take place around the block surrounding Hartwell Place, 5520 N. Paulina St., in Chicago’s Andersonville community.
SEATTLE, Wash., Oct. 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Friday Harbor, an AI pre-underwriting platform that helps loan officers assemble complete and compliant loan files in real time, has been named a winner of PROGRESS in Lending’s 2026 AI Pioneer Award. Friday Harbor pioneered AI pre-underwriting as a new category of mortgage technology and has since brought the approach into production at meaningful scale.
PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — PIC, a Pittsburgh-based digital marketing agency and HubSpot Platinum Partner, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Founded in 2001 by Jeff Schroeffel as Pittsburgh Internet Consulting, PIC began as an SEO and paid search provider and has grown into a full-service marketing partner while maintaining the principle that has guided the agency from the beginning: client relationships should be built for the long haul.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Old Vine Registry (OVR), the world’s largest and most authoritative public database of old vineyards, today launched the OVR Seal. The program lets registered producers and the trade put a vineyard’s documented old-vine status in front of consumers directly, via wine labels, digital marketing materials, and more. (UPDATED)
NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 1, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Frodio is marking the midpoint of its “Frodio Loves You” anniversary campaign with a reminder that eligible participants in the United States still have time to enter for the opportunity to receive one of 1,000 free wigs. The campaign is built around the message “Frodio listens. Frodio cares. Frodio gives back.”
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 30, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Capital Automotive Group today announced the acquisition of six Larry Cloninger dealerships and an independent collision center in North and South Carolina, marking a significant expansion for the family-owned automotive group and, more importantly, the continuation of a legacy built on relationships, community, and more than four decades of friendship between the Cloninger and Michael families.
ONTARIO, Canada, Sept. 30, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Soap Opera Magazine, named the No. 1 soap opera news website of 2026 by entertainment publication High on Films, is marking 35 years since the magazine first reached newsstands in 1991. The revived digital title now publishes daily recaps, spoilers, breaking news and analysis for all five American daytime dramas.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 30, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — HitPaw Edimakor V5.3.0 introduces a major update focused on four key areas of video creation: watermark removal, video translation, AI Avatar, and LUT filters. The new features improve the all-in-one workflow, helping creators clean up footage, localize content, produce longer digital human videos, and achieve professional color looks with less effort.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Realset AI, a real-world data lab that produces training data for LLMs, frontier models and embodied agents, today announced that Realset AI and Flatkey have raised 10 million dollars in Series A funding. The funding will expand Realset’s capture network of real workplaces and studio environments, grow its pool of expert demonstrators and domain experts, and support open benchmarks that measure whether AI policies work outside the lab.
PERTH, Western Australia, Oct. 30, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — When Regina Collier lost her partner, Dean, in July 2022 following complications from a double-lung transplant, she expected grief to change her life. What she didn’t expect was how dramatically it would change the way other people interacted with her. In her new book, “I Don’t Have Leprosy, I’m Just Grieving: A Widow’s Blunt Perspective on Society” (ISBN: 978-1834385839), released through Tellwell Publishing, Collier offers an unfiltered account of widowhood and the strange, painful, and sometimes infuriating ways society responds to people who are grieving.
BRENTWOOD, Tenn., Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Franklin Madison today announced the availability of Guaranteed Issue Life Insurance (GI Life), a new approach to life insurance that removes traditional barriers to coverage through guaranteed acceptance, simplified enrollment, and no waiting periods. The insurance addresses a well-documented gap.
OSCEOLA, Iowa, Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — After years of planning, collaboration, and persistence, the Clarke County Reservoir Commission (CCRC) has reached a major benchmark in the effort to secure a sustainable water supply for South-Central Iowa, the Clarke County Development Corporation (CCDC) announced today.
LA VERNE, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — September is Healthy Aging Month, a time to recognize the importance of healthy habits at every stage of life. At Hillcrest, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community in La Verne, Calif., living well is not a once-a-year focus. It is woven into daily life through nutritious dining, wellness programs, education and opportunities for residents to stay active, connected and engaged.
ST. HELENA, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Come Over October™ returns for its third year with its broadest participation yet, as the campaign expands internationally, grows its presence across U.S. retail and introduces new ways for consumers to put its simple invitation to gather into action, COME TOGETHER-A Community for Wine Inc. announced today.
SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — MobiKin, an international software developer, today announced a major compatibility update for its flagship utility, MobiKin Assistant for iOS. The updated software provides new iPhone 18 owners with an efficient, offline desktop solution to back up, restore, and manage personal data between iOS devices and Windows or Mac computers.
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Floify, the mortgage industry’s leading point-of-sale (POS) solution, today announced that Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) has chosen Floify to modernize its first mortgage and home equity lending experience. Founded in 1960, the Bay Area credit union recognized the need for a more streamlined mortgage process to meet members’ expectations.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 29, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Flatkey, the AI infrastructure platform that brings models, tools and data together behind one API key, today announced that Flatkey and Realset AI have raised 10 million dollars in Series A funding. The company also said that over 10,000 developers have used the platform since its launch in July 2026 to access more than 100 official AI models and more than 1,000 AI tools through a single API key and a single balance.
TEMECULA, Calif., Sept. 28, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Today, Christopher Simmons (aka “the PR guru”) updated his long-standing guidance on the best day and time for sending out press releases, dispelling many common myths related to news distribution. Simmons wrote his first press release in 1981, and is the co-founder and editorial director for Send2Press® Newswire, a 26-year-old leading affordable “true” news dissemination service.
NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 28, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Reports of iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max devices unexpectedly turning off and restarting have continued to draw attention, says Tenorshare Co.Ltd. Some affected devices have also generated “panic-full” reports in Analytics Data, giving users a way to check whether a system crash occurred around the time of an unexpected restart. Tenorshare ReiBoot provides an iOS system repair feature for common system issues.
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA, Sept. 28, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — EDEAL, an emerging financial services company serving individuals and small businesses in Latin America, today announced significant growth in its lending operations in Colombia, alongside a new strategic relationship with Sardona Capital S.A., a securities firm regulated and supervised by the Superintendence of the Securities Market of the Republic of Panama.