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According to the 2026 Wells Fargo Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report, Black women owned roughly 2.8 million nonemployer businesses in 2025. That number climbed 13.2% in just one year, faster...
Buying a home is still difficult for many Black families. Keeping one in good condition is becoming an equally important challenge.The Go Urban Companies (TGUC) Financial just rolled out a $150...
Sheena Allen’s early edge wasn’t technical skill. She never had that. What she had was a willingness to split two things most people treat as one: knowing what a product should be, and...
Cyrus Harbin used to read poetry to strangers for a living. Before that clicked into a career, he drove for Lyft — no computer science degree, no bootcamp certificate, nothing that looks like a normal...
For several years, an unwritten rule existed in the basketball sport. The Hall of Fame was meant for retired guys. Even the absolute biggest stars of the game have to wait till retirement to get...
Back in the mid-2010s, making mobile games wasn’t a business. It was a brawl. Big corporations sat on user data like dragons guarding gold. Independent developers? They were flying blind. No...
A recent security incident involving OpenAI and Hugging Face gave us a disturbing glimpse. AI is moving fast. It’s shifting from a simple business tool to a powerful digital instrument. During an...
For decades, the global food industry flew blind. Scattered data. Slow lab testing. Pure intuition. That’s how companies tackled everything from product formulation to food allergies. AI was already...
The biggest business opportunities in 2026 may not be the ones dominating social media. Many will come from solving problems businesses and consumers already pay to fix. Artificial intelligence is...