By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Independent Newport Beach entrepreneur Luann McElroy, whose business ventures include her own magazine, Damsel, and Voyagers Rentals, a Newport Beach Duffy boat experience, had talked about launching a Christian-based company, but she was unsure what that company might be. One day, Read More
By Sandra M. Borges | Special to the NB Indy In Orange County, approximately 95,000 adults ages 65 and older live alone, and it’s not by choice. Newport Beach resident Marc Iannini identified this problem after the loss of several of his uncles, leaving their widows in a lonely state Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (STUDIO CITY, Calif.) — Kord Fire Protection in Studio City (Los Angeles) is sharing 2026 guidance for California facility owners, engineers, contractors and fire protection professionals on inspection, testing and maintenance considerations for private fire hydrants and underground fire service piping. Fire hydrants and underground piping form an Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (OAKLAND, Calif.) — California Waste Solutions, Inc. (CWS) is approaching its 35th year as a leader in the recycling, resource recovery and environmental infrastructure business with operations in California and Vietnam. Headquartered in Oakland, the company serves more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose and operates Read More
Mats Steen lived with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive muscle disease that increasingly limited his mobility and eventually required him to use a wheelchair. To those around him, his physical world may have seemed increasingly small. But online, Mats built a rich virtual life that gave him opportunities to connect, Read More
Mai Park has spent more than two decades advising clients through changing markets and increasingly complex financial lives. After beginning her wealth-management career at Morgan Stanley in 2003, where she served as a Vice President through 2008, Park spent 17 years at Merrill Lynch and served as a Senior Vice Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (LOS ANGELES and CHINA) — FineVoice, an international AI tech company, has announced the launch of Aunio, an end-to-end AI audio production agent designed to help anyone create professional, publish-ready audio without a dedicated audio production team. Rather than generating individual audio assets in isolation, Aunio understands the Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (INGLEWOOD, Calif.) — Cloud 9 Inn LAX has announced the completion of its extensive property rebranding and total guest room modernizations. Completed in August 2025, the top-to-bottom transformation establishes the hotel as the premier budget-friendly gateway for travelers, sports fans, and concertgoers visiting the booming Inglewood and Greater Read More
CALIFORNIA NEWSWIRE (GARDEN GROVE, Calif.,) — Informative Research (IR), a leading Orange County technology provider of data-driven credit and verification solutions for the lending industry, today announced that Tim Cox has rejoined the IR leadership team as executive vice president of business process automation. In this role, Tim will apply Read More
