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Elevated Payment Solutions wins Reno Business of the Year award
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Elevated Payment Solutions has been named Business of the Year in Reno by the Consumer Ratings Institute, which cited its public review performance serving merchants in Northern Nevada and Northern California.
Focus CPA says businesses have 90 days to make year-end tax moves
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Focus CPA Group says the final quarter is the last practical window for business owners to influence their 2026 tax outcome before December 31. The California firm is urging companies to review entity elections, retirement contributions,…
Opal Cremation study finds fee disclosure gaps in Southern California
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Opal Cremation says a review of hundreds of funeral home price lists in Los Angeles and Orange counties found many direct cremation providers do not clearly disclose key fees.
California adds statewide smoke-damage rules after Los Angeles fires
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GFM.News says new California laws signed in Altadena are reshaping how wildfire smoke damage is tested, remediated and handled in insurance claims.
Vroozi to host AI procurement forum in Beverly Hills
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Vroozi will bring aerospace and defense procurement leaders to Beverly Hills on Oct. 7 for an invitation-only forum focused on AI-powered sourcing, compliance and supplier management.
California heat illness hits vulnerable workers hardest, study finds
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A new KJT Law Group study says work-related heat illness sent 5,925 California workers to emergency departments from 2016 to 2023, with some counties seeing rates far above the state average.
Karns & Karns launches California wrongful death litigation division
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Karns & Karns Personal Injury and Accident Attorneys has created a dedicated wrongful death practice out of its Los Angeles headquarters to represent grieving families in high-stakes cases across California.
Water Wells for Africa marks 30 years and 680 wells in Malawi
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Water Wells for Africa is celebrating 30 years of work in Malawi and the installation of its 680th well, as founder Kurt Dahlin’s project moves into a new phase with a goal of 1,000 wells.
Andy Kim visits New Jersey solar panel recycler as state pushes circular economy
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U.S. Sen. Andy Kim toured Commercial Solar Panel Recycling in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, as part of his Einstein Corridor initiative focused on innovation and clean energy jobs.
California Waste Solutions returns as Diamond Sponsor of San José police awards ceremony
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California Waste Solutions backed the 2026 San José Police Department Major Awards Ceremony as a Diamond Sponsor, extending a partnership with the San José Police Foundation that started in 2021. The company framed the support as part of a broader…
DoveRunner adds real-time identity and network checks to mobile app security
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DoveRunner has launched Access Signals, an add-on for its Mobile App Security platform that checks identity, location and network signals in real time on Android and iOS. The tool is aimed at helping app owners block fraud, location spoofing and…
California Waste Solutions advances Vietnam waste-to-energy expansion
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California Waste Solutions and its Vietnam subsidiary are moving ahead with a proposed 50- to 60-megawatt waste-to-energy project at the Da Phuoc complex outside Ho Chi Minh City. The plan would expand an existing landfill, recycling and…
GSTX subsidiary wins up to $15 million California tax break for wafer plant
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Graphene & Solar Technologies said its California manufacturing subsidiary won approval for a sales and use tax exclusion worth up to $14.999 million, backing a planned 10-gigawatt silicon wafer facility in Southern California.
Graphene batteries and solar erase $466K in California food distributor demand charges
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ONSITE Utility Services says a California grocery distributor cut its annual Super-Peak electricity charges by $466,452 by pairing solar with graphene battery storage.
California Waste Solutions nears 35 years with Bay Area and Vietnam operations
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California Waste Solutions is marking nearly 35 years in recycling and environmental infrastructure as founder David Duong highlights the company’s growth from eight used trucks in Oakland to a two-country operation.
California Waste Solutions expands recycling education to cut contamination
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California Waste Solutions is expanding recycling education across Oakland and San Jose to help residents, property managers and businesses keep contamination out of recycling carts.
California report urges new flood modeling rules to boost resilience and insurance incentives
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A California Ocean Science Trust report developed with Scripps Institution of Oceanography lays out eight recommendations to better reflect flood mitigation in catastrophe models and insurance pricing.
Hart CEO Dominique Gross named to Parity’s 100 Women in HealthTech list
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Hart CEO Dominique Gross was named to Parity’s new 100 Women in HealthTech report, published with LSEG, for leadership in healthcare data and technology.
Katherine Holzmann builds floral event business in East Bay and Wine Country
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Katherine Holzmann has turned an engineering and corporate operations background into Bouquet Box Flower Bar – East Bay/Wine Country, an interactive floral-events business based in Vallejo, California.
New screenings of The King of Trash spotlight California Waste Solutions' rise
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Bay Area screenings of The King of Trash are putting David Duong’s refugee-to-business story back in the spotlight as the documentary traces how California Waste Solutions grew from bottle collecting in San Francisco into a major recycling…
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