Reviews
Wix
With an intuitive drag-and-drop editor and many features (including AI) to support all kinds of businesses, Wix offers something for everyone. The generous free plan lets you build a fully functional website, making it one of the most accessible site builders available. It’s one of the few website builders I’ve tested that lives up to its reputation.
Shopify POS
Shopify POS is best suited for omnichannel businesses that sell online and in person. Its solutions allow you to unify sales across all your channels with automatic inventory updates and lets you manage your stock, staff, products, and marketing from one place. However, entirely brick-and-mortar businesses and those in industries other than retail might be better off with an...
Toast
Toast stands out as an all-in-one, customizable, and scalable restaurant POS solution. It integrates multiple ordering options with robust inventory and supply chain management. With plans starting at /month, Toast caters to all types of restaurants and budgets, including multi-location businesses. Discover how Toast can streamline your operations and revolutionize your...
Square POS
Catering to restaurants, retail stores, and appointment-based businesses, Square POS is one of the most popular systems on the market – no doubt in part because of its generous free plan, packed with features that are normally found behind paywalls. While Square POS works for most businesses, online-first and omnichannel businesses might find more robust support elsewhere.
Sekure Payment Experts
Despite past hiccups, Sekure Payment Experts has refined its approach and now provides good support and customer service. Businesses on a budget can save with Sekure's zero-cost processing Edge program, plus it offers free equipment and same or next-day deposits at no charge. It’s worth considering, but make sure you carefully review your contract terms before signing.
Lightspeed POS
Lightspeed serves restaurant, retail, and golf businesses, standing out as a feature-rich POS solution with advanced inventory, multi-location, and omnichannel capabilities. It provides e-commerce functionality exclusively for higher-tier plans. This means brick-and-mortar businesses only pay for necessary features. Lightspeed is ideal for established businesses and those...
Swyft Filings
Swyft Filings promises to handle the paperwork for the formation of your LLC, and that’s exactly what it does. Good customer support and an excellent set of features makes Swyft Filings ideal for small business owners. Though there are some extra fees to be aware of, it offers good value for money overall.
SpotOn
SpotOn POS stands out with a POS platform highly customized for retail, restaurants, professional services, salons, and other small to medium-sized businesses. You can easily migrate from another system due to its personalized approach. Its free restaurant and affordable entry-level retail plan make it a good deal, provided you don’t need many add-ons. As for whether it beats...
Epos Now
Epos Now is one of the few POS solutions that provides flexible software compatible with many third-party hardware brands. You can also integrate any payment processor, but long-term contracts may be a drawback. While suitable for small to mid-sized retail and hospitality businesses, large or more complex organizations might find its features limiting.
Copy.ai
Thanks to its wide variety of writing tools for different use cases, Copy.ai is a robust AI writing platform ideal for businesses. It can generate sales copy, create long-form blog articles, and translate your content into multiple languages. It’s not perfect, but it’s worth trying out if you want to elevate your content in minutes.
Harbor Compliance
Though not as popular as some alternatives, Harbor Compliance is a legitimate company handling LLC formation and compliance services. It specializes in industry-specific licensing and offers comprehensive support for nonprofit formation. Combined with its compliance software, Harbor Compliance can save you a significant amount of time. However, it provides less value than our...
Blog Posts
AI Ads Take Over Super Bowl 2025
AI-driven advertisements dominated the multi-million dollar ad spots during Super Bowl 59, as brands like OpenAI, Squarespace, Google, and Meta showcased how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of marketing. ChatGPT creator OpenAI made its Super Bowl debut with a 60-second commercial titled “The Intelligence Age.” The $14 million ad showcases an animated journey...
Fiverr Introduces New Subscription Plans and Features
Freelance platform Fiverr unveiled its 2025 Winter Product Release, introducing a new Team Account feature and expanded Fiverr Pro subscription plans aimed at businesses and freelancers. The updates focus on enhancing collaboration, streamlining project management, and providing better hiring support. With the new Team Account feature, “freelancers and agencies can now...
OpenAI and SoftBank Partner to Develop Advanced Enterprise AI
Japanese investment firm SoftBank and AI startup OpenAI joined forces to develop an enterprise-grade automation AI solution called Cristal Intelligence. The solution will be customized and exclusively marketed to major Japan-based companies. SoftBank will leverage OpenAI’s technology to create custom AI agents capable of automating everyday tasks and boosting efficiency...
DeepSeek Data Leak Exposes Over 1 Million Sensitive Records
Days after launching its low-cost, OpenAI rival model, R1, Chinese startup DeepSeek suffered a series of cyberattacks on its API interface and chat system, as well as a jailbreak. These vulnerabilities led to exposing over one million sensitive records. After taking Wall Street by storm, DeepSeek was forced to block new sign-ups due to a large-scale cyberattack. The Chinese...
10 Billion Passwords Exposed in Biggest Leak Ever
Researchers from Cybernews uncovered what appears to be the world’s largest compilation of leaked passwords, containing nearly 10 billion unique plaintext passwords. The stolen data file, rockyou2024.txt, was posted on a criminal underground forum, BreachForums, by a hacker nicknamed “ObamaCare” on July 4th. Like the 26-billion-record-heavy data leak Cybernews discovered...
Wix Introduces YouTube Shopping Integration
Website builder Wix announced an integration with YouTube Shopping, enabling online store owners to showcase their offerings in a store format and sell them directly on YouTube. The integration is available via the Google & YouTube app from the Wix AppMarket and requires a premium plan to activate. YouTube Shopping is a relatively new feature (launched in 2021) that...
11 Best Payment Gateways: Easy Setup & Low Fees in 2025
Using a popular payment gateway like Apple Pay and Authorize.Net as your primary processor sounds sensible but can become problematic in the long run. That’s because they limit your payment methods, can often be costly, and don’t offer much in terms of customer or tech support. The best solution is to access these payment gateways through a fully featured credit card...
Chinese AI App Causes US Tech Stocks to Plunge
A Chinese AI company called DeepSeek announced an advanced, inexpensive large-language model which caused US stocks to slump. "DeepSeek has taken the market by storm by doing more with less," said Giuseppe Sette, president at AI market research firm Reflexivity, in an email to CBS. "This shows that with AI the surprises will keep on coming in the next few...
TikTok Is Back Online in the US After Trump Vowed to Pause Ban
TikTok came back online in the US on Sunday, roughly 12 hours after leaving its 170 million American users without access as a result of a federal ban stemming from concerns the Chinese-owned company was misusing Americans' data. The video-sharing platform attributed its US revival to President-elect Donald Trump, who, during his first term in 2020, also wanted to ban it...
New Study Shows AI Systems Are Making Humans More Biased
After a series of experiments involving 1,401 participants, researchers from University College London and MIT found that even small initial biases in humans can snowball into larger ones through repeated human-AI interaction. Because AI systems are trained on data from humans, AI systems adopt different human biases, including cognitive, racial, and gender. The study warns...
Meta Ends Fact-Checking Program To Allow Free Expression
Meta kicked off 2025 with a controversial decision, announcing it would end its fact-checking program and loosen restrictions around what people can say across its social media platforms. In 2016, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and Threads implemented a fact-checking program. Its fact-checking operations were handled by third-party, independent organizations, who...
8 Best Credit Card Processing for Travel Agencies in 2025
Accepting payments for your travel business is risky. Trips that require a lot of planning ahead come with higher-than-usual chargebacks. If you process high-ticket transactions, like airline tickets, hotel stays, cruises, and tours, you’re also at a greater risk of falling victim to cybercriminals. This means you also need advanced fraud detection and protection tools. I...
41% of Companies Plan To Reduce Headcount by 2030 Due to AI
The World Economic Forum, an international non-governmental organization for public-private cooperation, has released the 2025 edition of The Future of Jobs Report. The report reveals key macro trends that will shape the job market in the next five years, based on data from 1,000 global companies that employ 14 million workers in 22 industries and 55 economies. According...
Meta Deletes Its AI Instagram & Facebook Profiles
Meta is shutting down the Facebook and Instagram profiles of AI characters it created over a year ago. Users recently rediscovered these bots, which spurred viral controversy. Meta introduced these AI-powered profiles in September 2023, modeling them after public figures like Kendall Jenner and MrBeast. In addition to celebrity-based bots, Meta debuted several AI...
The Biggest Social Media Trends for 2025
Hootsuite published a report on the biggest social media trends for 2025. The company behind one of the most popular social media management tools analyzed data from over 3,800 marketers across 99 countries and summarized its findings in its Social Media Trends 2025 report. The report groups these trends into three main categories: Content Experimentation, Social Listening,...