Small Web Business

More than half of the small business owners in a new Bluehost survey built their websites with AI instead of hiring a developer. Of 201 U.S. entrepreneurs surveyed in research commissioned by Bluehost, 53% said they used an AI website builder, TechRadar reported on Oct. 16. Owners who built with AI reported average savings of

  Verizon plans to charge customers $10 a month for Apple’s iPhone Handoff feature. The carrier disclosed the fee Friday in an announcement tied to preorders for its new iPhone Duo device. iPhone Handoff, introduced in iOS 27, lets users share one phone number across two compatible iPhones. Only one device can use the number

Major US banks are blocking outside AI agents from executing money transfers on behalf of customers. Charles Schwab actively prevents unauthorized agents, including Meta’s Muse, from moving client funds, its CEO said on Oct. 16. Rick Wurster, chief executive of Charles Schwab, told Bloomberg that the firm stops such attempts because risks cannot be managed.

  Coinbase Global rolled out 15-minute prediction contracts on Bitcoin, Ethereum and eight other major cryptocurrencies on Oct. 6. The move, built on infrastructure from federally regulated platform Kalshi, lets users wager on whether a coin will finish a quarter-hour window higher or lower than its opening price. Volumes have climbed fast, but the data

  Buyers hunting for deals on American roads face a stubborn fact. New vehicle prices sit near all-time highs even as shoppers shift toward compact cars and smaller SUVs. The average transaction price hit $50,562 in September. That figure stands just $52 below the record set in December 2025, according to Kelley Blue Book. Shoppers

  Tokyo-based shipping giant NYK Line has joined forces with engineering specialist NTT Facilities, renewable power developer Eurus Energy Holdings and MUFG Bank to propose data centers mounted on floating platforms moored right next to busy port quays. The idea aims squarely at the mounting pressure on land and electricity that now slows every major

  Most chief executives of large U.S. companies expect artificial intelligence to help their companies hire more people over the next three years, not fewer. This view emerges clearly from a fresh survey of 400 leaders at large U.S. firms. The poll, conducted by KPMG between August 11 and September 21, captured executives running businesses

  Bank executives rarely sound rattled on earnings calls. Yet this week several of the biggest names in finance spoke with unusual urgency about a new threat: rogue AI agents. Jamie Dimon didn’t mince words. “You don’t want rogue agents, and it could be thousands of them,” the JPMorgan Chase chief executive said Tuesday. He

  The real-time bidding auctions that decide, in less than a second, which ad appears on a news site or inside a mobile app have been used to deliver mercenary spyware. Devices were infected simply because an ad loaded, with no click and no download. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab published the