Is It Safe to Book a Boat Online? Yes — If You Don’t Do It the Wrong Way! Let’s be honest — booking flights online? Easy. Hotels? Done in seconds. But booking a boat online? Suddenly you turn into Sherlock Holmes, questioning every tiny detail. Is the captain real? Will the boat actually look like
Pricing has always been tricky. A shopper picks something up, pulls out their phone, and in seconds, they know if you’re overpriced. If they spot a better deal, they’re gone. That’s the game now. The old way—set a markup, adjust every so often, hope it sticks—worked when people couldn’t compare ten shops at once. Those
Mining bitcoin in 2025 has turned into a fight over severely rising costs, very narrow returns, and changes in technology taking place too quickly. In 2024, the halving event happened, which cut block rewards in half, thus leaving the traditional mining businesses barely surviving due to the extremely high global difficulty and the increasing price
Washington, D.C. — Small business confidence continued to climb in the third quarter, according to the latest MetLife & U.S. Chamber of Commerce Q2 2025 Small Business Index. The Q3 2025 Index score of 72.0, up from 65.2 last quarter, was driven by improved views of both the national and local economies. While optimism is on
LANSNG - Time is running out! Nominations for the 2026 Michigan Celebrates Small Business (MCSB) Awards close on October 8. This is your chance to help spotlight the small businesses that are creating jobs, driving innovation, and making a difference in Michigan communities. With over 1,200 past honorees, MCSB is the state’s premier small business
GRAND RAPIDS - Long before David Krogmann became a programming professor at Davenport University, he was a video game-loving teenager with a lofty ambition: to create and release his own video games. For Krogmann, that dream has advanced one step closer to reality. Krogmann and his student interns unveiled Ashlight: Undercroft to the public at
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) is announcing today that students and families can now complete the 2026-27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), ahead of the anticipated Oct. 1 open date. “Applying for financial aid should be the first priority for every Michigan family considering higher education,”
ANN ARBOR - Astronomers say one of the rarest comets ever observed, the mysterious 3I/ATLAS, likely isn’t alone, and that more mysterious interstellar visitors to our solar system could soon be on the way. Such discoveries are likely, even though 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object astronomers have detected in our planetary neighborhood, thanks to advanced new detection
GERMANY - Aglobal energy company has recently confirmed that Germany holds one of the world’s largest lithium resource bases, reportedly amounting to 43 million tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE). The resource base, according Neptune Energy, is located in the Altmark Region in Northern Saxony Anhalt, Germany, an area which is already known for its
NEW YORK - Obamacare premiums are poised to jump next year, driven by expiring federal subsidies and the highest proposed rate hikes since 2018, setting up a pocketbook shock for millions of marketplace enrollees, unless Congress intervenes. The core driver is the scheduled sunset of enhanced premium tax credits at year-end, which could lift out-of-pocket
