California Business

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- David Duong, the charismatic entrepreneur whose family built California Waste Solutions after arriving in San Francisco as refugees, is the star of a new documentary, "The King of Trash," that has drawn strong reviews and is now returning to California theaters. Tickets for Bay Area and San Jose showings sold out in August after heavy demand from movie-goers and the local community.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Mezzo, creator of the mortgage industry's first one-to-many operating architecture for third-party services, today announced an integration with Vesta, the AI-native loan origination system (LOS) and agent platform built to automate and accelerate mortgage operations. Mezzo launches with a single gateway across verification providers.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Novak Doors and Gates, a licensed and insured electric gate repair and installation company serving Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, today announced expanded same-day electric and automatic gate repair coverage across the city, with dedicated crews for West Los Angeles and Hollywood alongside its established service in Santa Monica, Brentwood, Venice, Sherman Oaks, Tarzana and

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Rotary District 5130 will carry the World Polio Torch through communities across Northern California from October 2 through October 24, 2026, raising awareness and support for Rotary's decades-long commitment to eradicate polio worldwide.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- In March 2025, LegalizeFerrets.org filed Form FGC-1 with the California Fish and Game Commission - the formal petition, under Government Code §11340.6, asking the state to reconsider its classification of domestic ferrets as restricted wild animals under Title 14, §671. Preparing it properly took considerable effort. The Commission accepted it as Petition 2025-003.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- DocMagic announced today that Chief Operating Officer Lori Johnson has been named a 2026 HousingWire Vanguard. COO recognized for advancing DocMagic's latest innovations in a digital mortgage career spanning more than 30 years.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- With Labor Day weekend expected to pack U.S. airports, free parking marketplace Parksy (parksy.com) today published a count of its listed parking within five miles of 14 major American hubs: nearly 2,000 spaces in total, led by Boston Logan with 491 - and spread so unevenly that the company says driveways near airports are now the most underused asset in American travel.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Sixty years to the day after the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum opened, VillageGIVE will present Coliseum 60, a free, all-ages community commemoration in East Oakland on Sept. 18, 2026, celebrating six decades of people, memories and community while looking toward the Coliseum's future.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Send2Press, a 26-year-old U.S.-based newswire and press release distribution service, announces its expanded "AI Seeding" campaign for its PR and marketing clients. Launched in 2025 as nascent AI search and "answer engines" began to "breathe," Send2Press launched organic and direct "seeding" of client news material into emerging LLMs to increase AI search visibility. Send2Press® is a brand/service of NEOTROPE®.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Secured Signing, a global leader in electronic signature and Remote Online Notarization (RON) technology, announced the launch of Outsource Notary Queue, a new feature that lets business, delegate overflow signings jobs to trusted signing services partners while staying fully in the loop from start to finish.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Masonic Homes of California and Acacia Creek Retirement Community invite Union City neighbors of all ages and abilities to take part in the second annual Walk in the Hills on Saturday, September 12, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., with registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. The walk course is approximately 0.6 miles, with additional activities taking place throughout the event.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Advisory List, a directory and professional community for the small and middle-market M&A ecosystem, has published new guidance for business owners considering a future sale, highlighting issues transaction professionals say should be addressed years before a company goes to market.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Sometimes people simply need a reason to extend an invitation. A new national consumer survey conducted by Come Over October™ in partnership with LocalWineEvents.com found that nearly half (41%) of respondents said having a specific occasion or reason to gather, such as Come Over October, would make them more likely to host a gathering with wine, COME TOGETHER - A Community for Wine announced today.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Optimism, the platform for well-being, today announced that writer, podcaster, and three-time bestselling author Case Kenny has joined the company as its first Chief Optimist. Kenny will help ensure that Optimism's science-backed guidance reaches its audiences in a voice that actively builds optimism, and will lead new consumer programming, beginning with Mantra, launching September 2, 2026.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- CDF Labor Law LLP (CDF) is pleased to announce that 30 of its attorneys, more than half of the firm's attorneys, have been recognized in the 2027 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America, reflecting the depth of talent across the firm and its continued strength in representing California employers in labor and employment matters.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- While the daily news cycle is dominated by fears of artificial intelligence replacing human jobs, hacking our passwords, gobbling the world's energy to feed polluting data centers, and disrupting global infrastructures, a groundbreaking independent research project is demonstrating that AI can also be a powerful force for good. The AzurevaAI Research Collective has successfully utilized a multi-LLM framework to solve a 5,000-year-old biological mystery, delivering a massive victory for human wellness and female anatomical science.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Hillcrest, a nonprofit continuing care retirement community in La Verne, has been named one of the 2026 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Hillcrest was recognized for fostering a workplace where employees feel valued, supported and connected to the community's nonprofit mission.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- New data from the HotDeals Research Team shows that during the 2026 Back-to-School season, U.S. shoppers continue to favor manually applied coupon codes over automatically applied, no-code deals. According to the HotDeals Consumer Savings Index, more than 2,000 active Back-to-School promotions were tracked across over 1,000 U.S. merchants this season, with code-based offers outnumbering no-code deals by a wide margin.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- DocMagic®, a leading provider of digital mortgage solutions, has been named one of the 2026 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. The annual program, now in its 20th year, recognizes companies that demonstrate a strong commitment to employee engagement.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- The AzurevaAI Research Collective has officially announced the publication of a new data model solving one of science's enduring mysteries. The findings, driven by advanced Large Language Models, address what Rachel Feltman highlighted on Scientific American's Science Quickly as one of sexology's most enduring debates: the exact biological mechanics of high-volume female fluid expulsion.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- The California Fish and Game Commission has released its final agenda for the August 12-13 meeting in Sacramento, and once again Petition 2025-003 - seeking to legalize domestic ferrets as pets in California - is not on the agenda. This meeting represents the Commission's last regularly scheduled public opportunity to consider the petition before "Wright v. California Fish and Game Commission et al." is heard in Sacramento County Superior Court on October 2, 2026, Legalize Ferrets announced today.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- What began in 1975 as an 11-year-old boy's fascination with empty beer cans has grown into more than fifty years devoted to preserving a unique piece of American history. Longtime collector Michael Miller has launched Mikes Beer Cans (MikesBeerCans.com), a digital museum and historical archive that chronicles a lifetime spent searching for, collecting, and preserving vintage beer cans, brewery signs, advertising, bottles, and other reminders of America's rich brewing heritage.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- The Light Committee, a headshot studio with a location in Los Angeles and New York City, has added two new headshot photography sessions that removes restrictions on a set number of looks or content type. Essentially, this lets clients sign up for a session to create whatever content the studio can support rather than specific content, like headshots.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Informative Research (IR), a leading technology provider of data-driven credit and verification solutions for the lending industry, today announced that Shana Garrie, senior marketing specialist, has been name among the 2026 HousingWire Insiders. The award honors the leaders working behind-the-scenes to drive innovation and efficiency in the mortgage and real estate industry.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- JazzX AI, an enterprise AI company purpose-built for the mortgage industry, today announced that Kunal Patel, head of AI platform and products, has been named to HousingWire's Insiders list for 2026. The annual Insiders award recognizes the behind-the-scenes operational leaders who are vital to their organizations' success and driving innovation across mortgage and real estate.