Online Business Daily Digest – October 18, 2025

Here’s today’s Online Business roundup 💻. From freelancing to e-commerce, these are the key updates.

1. Eightfold co-founders raise $35M for Viven, an AI digital twin startup for querying unavailable co-workers – TechCrunch
2. How a headphone site operator built loyalty startup Lantern to solve his own problems – TechCrunch
3. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Warns Against This ‘Disrespectful’ But Common Meeting Mistake
4. Mark Wahlberg Just Bought a Home on ‘Billionaire’s Row’ in Florida. Here’s How Much It Cost.
5. Email Marketing Automation That Moves People to Action
6. 3 Custom GPTs That Make You More Money and Free Your Time
7. Marc Benioff apologizes after saying Trump should send National Guard troops to San Francisco
8. $1.65 trillion chip giant Broadcom cuts staff in units like sales and accounts
9. 1min.AI for just $79.99 – Mashable
10. Mashable – Mashable
11. Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap?
12. ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World
13. What Sora’s Martin Luther King Jr. problem revealed to OpenAI
14. Apple’s new deal with Formula One aims to grow U.S. audience
15. 🇳🇬 Despite a ₦647 trillion payment boom, Nigeria’s informal sector stays cash-first
16. 🇳🇬 Scam and walk free? Blockchain never forgets, you could be caught 15 years later
17. 🇳🇬 How to import contacts from Gmail to iPhone (3 easy methods)
18. 🇳🇬 12 best Mailchimp alternatives for 2025 (compared)
19. 🇳🇬 The non-negotiable cost of growth: How Nigerian fintechs can stay compliant
20. 🇳🇬 Experts advise to buy and hold despite Bitcoin’s price crash to $105,000

That’s all for online business today 🚀. Are you building a side hustle or scaling up? Share below!