AI Accounting Software Grows Up: Xero Bets on Agents

At its US conference in Denver this week, Xero announced embedded payroll and a set of new AI capabilities aimed at small businesses and the accountants who serve them....
Madelyn Cline Reveals the Question She Asked Chase Stokes After Their Breakup
Meghann Fahy and Leo WoodallThey may have checked out of the hotel, but The White Lotus season two co-stars'...
Oren Shabat Laurent and the Missing Measures of Portfolio Health
Beyond Return as the Only StoryIn institutional finance, numbers carry an authority that can feel nearly absolute. Allocators compare...
Travis Barker’s Daughter Alabama Barker Goes to First “Prom” With N3on After Reconciliation
Sons of Anarchy Creator Kurt Sutter Reacts to Spinoff Made Without Him
Business Insurance for Startups: 73% Are Underprotected
Premier League Live Streaming on YouTube: How To Watch TNT Sports’ Free Pre-Match Coverage
The Office’s Jenna Fischer Reveals Why She Stepped Back From TV Roles
San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as largest tech talent market
Post Malone and Christy Lee Are Engaged Over a Year After Debuting Relationship
Brian Hickerson Steps Out for First Time Since Hayden Panettiere’s Death
Product Led Growth Pays: Wispr Raises $280M at $2B Value

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Entertainment

Madelyn Cline Reveals the Question She Asked Chase Stokes After Their Breakup
Meghann Fahy and Leo WoodallThey may have checked out of the hotel, but The White Lotus season two co-stars' off-screen relationship is still going strong. Meghann and Leo were...
Travis Barker’s Daughter Alabama Barker Goes to First “Prom” With N3on After Reconciliation
"We were never dating," he said in a June stream. "She made it very, very, very clear to me that we're friends." "There are times when I've reached out...
Sons of Anarchy Creator Kurt Sutter Reacts to Spinoff Made Without Him
Indeed, Sutter pointed out that the project is a meta thriller in which the original Sons of Anarchy cast—including his wife Katey Sagal—will portray fictionalized versions of themselves attending...
The Office’s Jenna Fischer Reveals Why She Stepped Back From TV Roles
“They were so little when that change happened, they thought of me as a podcaster,” Fischer continued. “If anybody asked them, ‘What does your mom do?’ They go, ‘Oh...
Post Malone and Christy Lee Are Engaged Over a Year After Debuting Relationship
Now they have one more reason to say "congratulations" to Post Malone.  The “Sunflower” singer and his girlfriend Christy Lee are officially engaged more than a year after they...
Brian Hickerson Steps Out for First Time Since Hayden Panettiere’s Death
Brian Hickerson is continuing on in the wake of Hayden Panettiere's death.  Three days after the Nashville star died in Greenville, S.C., at age 36, her on-again, off-again boyfriend...

Leadership

Substack Hires Former Roku Executive Dan Robbins to Lead Brand Sponsorships
Substack has hired Dan Robbins, a former executive at Roku, as its first head of brand sponsorships, the company confirmed June 15, marking the platform's most significant move yet...
Substack Hires Former Roku Executive Dan Robbins to Lead Brand Sponsorships
Substack has hired Dan Robbins, a former executive at Roku, as its first head of brand sponsorships, the company confirmed June 15, marking the platform's most significant move yet...
Toshifumi Suzuki, Founder of 7 Eleven Japan and ‘God of Retail’, Dies at 93
Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of 7-Eleven Japan in 1973 and widely considered as the father of Japan's 7 Eleven convenience store industry, died of heart failure at the age...
Momentum Peak Trade Seeks to Bring Structure and Support to Online Trading
Momentum Peak Trade is presenting itself as a brokerage platform for traders who want access to global markets without losing the guidance and clarity often missing from digital investing...
501FX Brings a Precision-Led Brokerage Model to Investors Seeking Smarter Global Market Access
501FX is building its presence in the online brokerage space with a platform designed for investors who want to move beyond passive savings and participate more actively in global...
PipVertex Builds a Cleaner Path for Traders Navigating Global Markets
As online trading becomes more crowded, traders are no longer choosing platforms based only on access. Many now want a trading environment that helps them move across markets with...

Lifestyle

AI Accounting Software Grows Up: Xero Bets on Agents
At its US conference in Denver this week, Xero announced embedded payroll and a set of new AI capabilities aimed at small businesses and the accountants who serve them....
Business Insurance for Startups: 73% Are Underprotected
According to a recently-published report by ERGO NEXT Insurance, found that 73% of small businesses either carry no insurance at all or carry less than they need. After surveying...
Product Led Growth Pays: Wispr Raises $280M at $2B Value
Wispr has closed a $280 million Series B at a $2 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and announced on August 17. The round brings total funding to $361...
Home Battery Startup Base Power Raises $1B Series D
Base Power closed a $1 billion Series D at a $13 billion valuation and launched Base Core, a 39.2 kWh home battery designed and built in the United States....
Small Business News: Nasdaq Center Backs Arkansas Founders
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center announced a two-year Northwest Arkansas program on August 12 that pairs coaching for early-stage companies with paid internships for local students. The initiative runs with...
Konstantin Sintsov: Business Expansion, Philanthropy and Community Impact
Konstantin Sintsov is an entrepreneur and philanthropist who helped found Rusagrotrans, the grain-hauling operator that reshaped how agricultural cargo moved by rail across the region. Since 2019, when he...

Money

JAY GOLDBERG: Time to open up domestic economy is now
Breadcrumb Trail LinksMoneyNewsOpinionColumnistsPublished Feb 01, 2026  •  Last updated 2 hours ago  •  3 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...
ESMAIL and MOIR: Canada’s health-care system costs patients in many ways
Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsOpinionColumnistsHealth-care costs for the average Canadian family have grown 1.6 times faster than the cost of housing, 2.2 times faster than the cost of food, and 1.6...
Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor, Jan. 26: ‘The problem with Smith’
Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsOpinionLettersPublished Jan 26, 2026  •  Last updated 58 minutes ago  •  5 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...
Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor, Jan. 24, 2026: ‘Trump’s insult’
Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsOpinionLettersPublished Jan 24, 2026  •  Last updated 3 hours ago  •  2 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...
Letters to the Editor, Jan. 23, 2026: ‘Crowds spoiling allure of Banff’
Breadcrumb Trail LinksNewsOpinionLettersPublished Jan 23, 2026  •  Last updated 17 hours ago  •  2 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...
HILL: Smith government should focus on what it can control — spending
Article contentNext month, amid weak oil prices and uncertainty fuelled by recent developments in Venezuela, which could depress prices further, the Smith government will table its 2026 budget. Albertans...

Real Estate

Oren Shabat Laurent and the Missing Measures of Portfolio Health
Beyond Return as the Only StoryIn institutional finance, numbers carry an authority that can feel nearly absolute. Allocators compare Sharpe ratios, drawdown histories, correlation matrices, and manager persistence as...
Premier League Live Streaming on YouTube: How To Watch TNT Sports’ Free Pre-Match Coverage
Fans in the UK will have a new way to access Premier League live streaming on YouTube during the 2026-27 season, although the free coverage will not include the...
Who Was Jose Suarez? Top Telemundo Executive Killed in Chopper Crash in Kenya that Left Five Americans Dead
A senior Telemundo executive was among seven people killed Wednesday when a helicopter crashed and caught fire near the foothills of Mount Ololokwe in northern Kenya. Florida native José...
Who Is Graeme Dott? Former Snooker World Champion on Trial Over Child Sex Abuse Charges
Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott is on trial at the High Court in Glasgow over allegations of historic child sexual abuse involving two children. The 49-year-old Scottish player...
Scientists Find a ‘Rosetta Stone’ in Space That Could Explain Mysterious Radio Signals
Astronomers have identified a rare stellar system that could help explain a puzzling class of repeating radio signals from deep space. The object, known as ASKAP J1745-5051, is a...
Who Was Ayesha Gilamana? Pakistani TikToker Shamsu Bibi Shot Dead at 28 in Taxila
Pakistani TikToker Ayesha Gilamana, whose real name was Shamsu Bibi, was shot dead in Taxila, a city near Islamabad, on the evening of Aug. 14. The 28-year-old content creator,...

Technology

San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as largest tech talent market
The San Francisco Bay Area, epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom, is home to a massive number of tech workers employed by some of the world’s most valuable companies,...
‘Brazen act of self-dealing’: Democrats seek to block a Trump-linked crypto bank
WASHINGTON — Federal regulators have given preliminary approval for a cryptocurrency venture tied to President Trump and his family to operate a digital-asset bank, a decision that has drawn immediate condemnation...
‘The young ones are the best ones’: Meta on trial for alleged effort to hook kids
California launched a salacious opening to its hotly anticipated multistate lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday morning, detailing the tech titan’s focus on its preteen users in language that could...
Hollywood strikes first AI copyright truce with ByteDance
The Motion Picture Assn. has struck its first agreement with an artificial intelligence company, saying Monday that ByteDance has strengthened copyright guardrails into its AI video and image tools...
Judge nixes Meta’s attempts to quash star witness, key evidence out of upcoming child-safety trial
California can keep a star witness and introduce key evidence during opening statements in its case against Meta, a federal judge has ruled, dealing a blow to the tech...
Netflix plans to close two gaming studios, including one in Hollywood
Netflix said it is in the process of closing two of its gaming studios, as the division is making another round of organizational changes.The Los Gatos, Calif., streamer said...

Special Edition

Jessica O'Neill
Top 10 Entrepreneurs Making Waves to Watch in 2024’s Business World
In a world driven by innovation and audacity, Forbes 40Under40 stands as a testament to the transformative power of youthful entrepreneurship. These dynamic visionaries are not just redefining success; they...
German, Dutch central banks post big losses, warn of more
German, Dutch central banks post big losses, warn of more
THE German and Dutch central banks on Friday (Feb 23) posted multi-billion euro losses for 2023 and predicted more financial pain ahead, suggesting that they are unlikely to pay...
Maritime players ink 5 MOUs for digital innovation, collaboration in sector
Maritime players ink 5 MOUs for digital innovation, collaboration in sector
A TOTAL of five memoranda of understanding (MOUs) were inked on Friday (Feb 23) by different players of the local maritime industry for the further digitalisation of the sector. ...
Basel watchdog urges banks to get on with implementing rules
Basel watchdog urges banks to get on with implementing rules
LOBBYING by banks to water down agreed capital rules simply diverts them and their regulators from dealing with the day-to-day and emerging risks they face, a global banking watchdog...
Is the ringgit bottoming?
Is the ringgit bottoming?
THE Malaysian ringgit has slumped against the US dollar to a level not seen since the Asian financial crisis - a quarter of a century ago. Against the Sing...
Digital media upstart Vice laying off ‘several hundred’ staff: CEO
Digital media upstart Vice laying off ‘several hundred’ staff: CEO
VICE, the dynamic, fast-growing digital media company that gained a wide following with young readers, said on Thursday it will no longer publish on its flagship website and is...