ST. HELENA, Calif. — Come Over October™, the pro-wine advocacy movement from Come Together A Community for Wine, that encouraged consumers to come together by sharing wine, has ended after an impactful three-year run. The campaign reached 3.8 billion media impressions, 7.5 million on social media, and was activated in over 2,000 retail stores with an estimated reach of 14 million consumers in the United States.
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Informative Research (IR), a leading technology provider of data-driven credit and verification solutions for the lending industry, today announced it has upgraded its technology infrastructure to support lenders’ adoption of multiple credit scoring models. IR clients are actively using both Classic FICO(r) and VantageScore(r) 4.0, the two models now available to every lender selling loans to the government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) following their Sept. 9 expansion.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. and VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group LLC (Atlantic Bay) today announced it has been recognized as a 2026 Top Workplace by The Charlotte Observer, marking its 11th consecutive year receiving the regional honor. The distinction places Atlantic Bay among just 47 Charlotte-area organizations with more than 500 employees recognized in 2026, extending a record of workplace recognition built on feedback from the people who work there.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — California Safe Schools (CSS) celebrated 28 years of advocacy and environmental leadership on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, with its annual “Your Life Is Now” Environmental Enforcement and Environmental Health Forum at The California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.
SYDNEY, Australia — STARII TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD today announced a major update to Koozee, its AI apparel visual production platform. The update introduces Freeform Canvas, a node-based workspace for reusable, multi-step fashion content workflows, and Koozee MCP, which lets supported AI agents access Koozee’s fashion visual tools for batch image generation. The company also consolidated its preset workflows under Quick Create.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Fonelora Inc. today announced the official release of Fonelora Android Unlocker, a desktop software solution designed to help users remove Android screen locks and bypass Google Factory Reset Protection (FRP). The software offers guided workflows for users locked out of their devices due to forgotten passwords or Google account verification after a factory reset.
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Nearly five decades after arriving in San Francisco as a Vietnamese refugee, David Duong returned to the city for an awards ceremony honoring “The King of Trash,” a documentary about his family’s journey from war and displacement to building a successful business in America. The film won Best Documentary and Best People Choice Film at the 13th San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival, with both awards presented November 1 at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Duong, the founder of California Waste Solutions, dedicated the film and its two awards to his parents, Jim Thu Tai Duong and Anh Thi Le.
DOVER, Del. — Virse provides creative agencies, brand teams, and design studios across the United States with a human-led AI creative system for commercial production. The workspace brings 50+ AI models, design tools, reference assets, and team collaboration onto one node-based canvas. On Virse’s Creative Canvas, every brief, moodboard, and revision stays linked as a visible node.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Seabird Investment Partners, a San Diego-based, SEC-registered investment adviser specializing in value oriented fixed income and equity investments, today announced that Craig Fletcher has joined the firm as Chief Operating Officer, effective September 14, 2026. Fletcher will help scale Seabird’s operations and position the firm for accelerated growth.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — SecuGen Corporation, a leading provider of advanced fingerprint biometric technology, today announced that its Unity™ 20 MOSIP fingerprint authentication device is now live in Uganda. SecuGen has completed the setup that allows the Unity 20 MOSIP to work with Uganda’s national identity system, which is built on the Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP) and operated by the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA).
