Gig staffing app WorkWhile agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle a San Francisco worker classification lawsuit, Mission Local reported on October 20, 2026. The City Attorney’s office filed the case in ...

Immigration planning helps international professionals protect work authorization, prepare for job changes, and grow their US ...

Poshmark will stop covering extra postage on overweight packages on October 26, 2026. Value Added Resource reported the change on October 17, citing Poshmark’s October 8 announcement. Sellers who skip ...

Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs published research on PoeLLM, a malware campaign it has followed since April 2026 that breaks into exposed open-source AI services and puts them to work mining cryptocurrency.

Google will strip the Flash and Pro models from free Gemini accounts on October 9, according to a report from Android Headlines. Anyone chatting with Gemini without paying will be left with the ...

Retailers plan to hire about 450,000 seasonal workers this Q4, according to a September 23 outlook from Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a number that would fall even further below last year’s 461,500 ...

Uber has agreed to buy the corporate catering marketplace ezCater in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3 billion, TechCrunch reported on October 6. ezCater generated more than $2.5 billion in gross ...

The National Federation of Independent Business sent a letter to Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden on October 7, 2026. It responds to the committee’s request for information on the ...

Upfluence, a creator marketing platform, says it has become fully agentic, with an AI system called Jaice that drafts campaign briefs, contacts creators, and negotiates rates for brands, AdExchanger ...

Economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a Liberty Street Economics analysis on October 8, 2026, on how AI use relates to what small business owners expect for hiring and revenue.

Amazon’s two-day Prime Big Deal Days event ran October 6 and 7, 2026, offering millions of deals to Prime members. Small Business Trends reported that more than one million products were priced at ...

Meta launched Muse for Small Business on September 29, and Intuit confirmed in an announcement on its blog that QuickBooks is now a live connector inside the AI agent. The tool is available in the ...