Union Home Mortgage has acquired the origination assets of AmeriTrust Mortgage Corporation, a move designed to bolster the company’s position as a top-tier wholesale lender. By absorbing AmeriTrust’s specialized retail branches and broker relationships, Union Home Mortgage aims to accelerate its expansion into non-qualified mortgage products and flexible lending solutions.
Wild Bill’s Craft Beverage Co. has reached a milestone of 20 active franchise operators, signaling a rapid expansion of its mobile soda wagon fleet. By targeting high-traffic venues like the Las Vegas Convention Center, the company is outpacing traditional restaurant growth models with a strategy built on high-frequency event participation.
By September, Cincinnati-based indoor golf operator Another Nine will operate five locations across the region. The expansion, led by the company’s largest franchise partner, introduces three new facilities in Liberty Township and Maineville, cementing the brand’s presence in its founding market through a 24/7, membership-free model.
Nearly 60% of children want their parents involved in their gaming lives, yet families often struggle to find guidance beyond basic screen-time limits. A new white paper from Games for Change, released at the annual G4C Festival in New York, suggests that replacing parental worry with curiosity is the key to healthier habits.
Tucked inside the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, Esmeralda’s is reshaping London’s after-dark landscape with a high-energy fusion of live soul, disco, and late-night indulgence. Open Thursday through Saturday, the venue brings a distinctively cinematic, New York-inspired pulse to Hanover Square for those seeking an elevated nightlife experience.
Surgeons have long mastered the mechanical repair of bone and tissue, yet the biological healing process that follows often remains an unaddressed variable. Houston-based TYBR Health is betting on this gap, securing $30 million in Series A financing to expand the reach of its FDA-cleared B3 GEL® System.
Women seeking breast rejuvenation without the risks of general anesthesia or surgical implants now have a new option in Jensen Beach. Velo Med Spa has launched Velo BreastLyft™, a procedure utilizing regenerative PRP Biofiller and structural adipose matrix to restore volume and improve skin elasticity through in-office injections.
Under a clear North Carolina sky, executives from OPW and ARCO Design/Build gathered on July 17 to mark the start of construction on a new manufacturing hub in Smithfield. The project adds 143,940 square feet to the company’s existing local footprint, aiming to meet rising global demand for fuel-handling technology.
Music meets grooming in a new partnership between Dove Men+Care and DJ Nic Vansteenberghe, offering fans a chance to win a VIP weekend in Las Vegas. The sweepstakes promotes the brand’s aluminum-free deodorant line, which pairs odor protection with specific scents designed to influence daily mood and confidence.
Sport Clips Haircuts is shifting its recruitment strategy with a new virtual event, Level Up Live, launching July 22. The 90-minute digital experience moves beyond traditional job fairs by prioritizing technical education and career development for cosmetology students and licensed professionals across the United States.
Redwood City-based Apodex is offering selected academic labs and deep-tech startups up to $100,000 in monthly compute credits to accelerate scientific discovery. The Frontier Program grants participants access to the company’s heavy-duty Apodex-1.0-H solver, designed specifically to tackle complex, multi-step research problems.
Domestic manufacturing output reached an all-time high of $2.91 trillion in 2024, yet the industry faces a looming talent crisis. With 3.8 million workers needed by 2033, stakeholders are now backing bipartisan legislation to import advanced training models from allied nations to bridge the widening skills deficit.
Trauma survivors seeking to rebuild their sense of self will have access to a new virtual resource this summer. The Finding Confidence After Trauma Summit, hosted by therapist and author Karen Robinson, gathers experts from across the therapeutic and holistic spectrum to provide actionable recovery tools for those navigating the aftermath of life-altering experiences.
Engineers and diagnostic teams face a recurring challenge: the most costly mechanical failures often hide behind layers of steel that require hours of disassembly to reveal. The new VOYAGER M40 industrial video borescope aims to bypass this teardown process, providing high-definition visual access to confined spaces in minutes.
"I created this idea because I was experiencing ongoing discomfort from wearing my glasses," said a Crestview, Florida-based inventor. This personal frustration sparked the development of Eyeglass Ear Pillows, a conceptual accessory designed to mitigate the soreness and physical indentations that frequently occur behind the ears after hours of wear.
Clients are increasingly deserting boutique vendors in favor of partners capable of managing end-to-end digital shifts, a trend that prompted Consulting Solutions to fold its six disparate operating companies into one unified entity. The Jacksonville-based firm now consolidates its various specialized arms under a single corporate banner.
More than 1,000 college and professional athletes served as test subjects for TenCate’s latest turf innovation, marking a shift toward designing playing surfaces based on biomechanical interaction rather than traditional material testing. The company presented this data-driven approach at the 2026 National Strength and Conditioning Association Conference.
Helus Pharma has finished recruiting participants for its APPROACH Phase 3 study, an investigation into HLP003 as an adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder. The company completed enrollment ahead of schedule, keeping the project on track to deliver topline data by the final quarter of 2026.
Michigan’s largest Multiple Listing Service, Realcomp II Ltd., is integrating its platform with the commercial marketplace Crexi to allow for automatic syndication of commercial, land, and multifamily listings. The partnership aims to provide over 15,000 Realcomp members with national exposure without requiring manual data entry or workflow adjustments.
Tucked inside the Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, Esmeralda’s Mayfair is rewriting the capital’s after-dark script. Founded by twins Lee and Nicky Caulfield, the venue bridges the gap between high-end hospitality and the magnetic, gritty energy of New York nightlife, remaining open until the early hours from Thursday through Saturday.
Pets are masters of masking discomfort, often maintaining their daily routines long after an illness has taken hold. Dr. Kristian Shriver, a veterinarian at Animal Medical of Covington, suggests that the key to effective treatment lies in recognizing minor behavioral deviations before they escalate into complex medical emergencies.
Investors will get a look at the financial health and project development progress of i-80 Gold Corp. on August 10, 2026. The Nevada-focused miner plans to release its results for the second quarter after the market closes, followed by a public conference call the next morning to detail its current operations.
The U.S. Center for SafeSport is shifting to a weekly disclosure model for its Centralized Disciplinary Database, aiming to boost transparency regarding individuals barred from the Olympic and Paralympic Movement. The move provides parents and program administrators with real-time access to sanctions levied against coaches and staff members.
Florida homeowners face a hidden threat: mandatory assessments following catastrophic storms, even if their own insurers remain solvent. Independent gubernatorial candidate Frank J. Russo is now countering this volatility with a proposed legislative package aimed at slashing annual insurance costs by up to 50 percent through a state-backed protection program.
A strategic alliance between Madison-based Elephas Biosciences and Singapore’s Invitrocue aims to transform cancer treatment across Southeast Asia by integrating live tissue diagnostics with genomic profiling. The partnership leverages Invitrocue’s established laboratory network to deploy the elive platform, targeting improved immunotherapy response predictions for patients in Singapore and Malaysia.
A 100-acre slice of Texas frontier history, the Rio Vista Brazos ranch, has entered the market for $7.99 million. Located in Palo Pinto County, the property features over 2,000 feet of Brazos River frontage and a contemporary limestone residence perched above the dramatic cliffs of the historic McMurry Ranch estate.
Healthcare technology firm Claritev is integrating CodeTogether’s AITrax platform to gain granular oversight of its AI-assisted software development. By transitioning from anecdotal reporting to objective telemetry, the company aims to track the real-world impact of AI tools on engineering costs, code quality, and overall team productivity.
Sixty percent of workflow and content automation providers will integrate human-in-the-loop AI coworkers by late 2027, according to a new report from Aragon Research. The analysis signals a definitive departure from deterministic, rules-based routing toward complex, multi-agent orchestration capable of managing end-to-end enterprise tasks.
Only 8% of organizations successfully move AI agents into production, largely because traditional software delivery pipelines cannot account for the unpredictable, non-deterministic nature of agentic code. Harness is now addressing this gap by extending its governance, security, and testing platform to manage the entire AI Agent Development Lifecycle.
A 300th store milestone in Weatherford, Texas, marks a high-water mark for BaseCamp Franchising, the parent company of Uptown Cheapskate and Kid to Kid. The organization finalized 45 new franchise agreements in the first half of 2026, signaling a rapid acceleration for the upscale thrift retail model across the United States.
