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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Association for Consumer Debt Relief (ACDR) today welcomed the release of a new study from the Financial Services Innovation Coalition (FSIC), The Consumer Financial Health Crisis: Wage Stagnation, Rising Costs, and the American Household Debt Trap, calling it an important contribution to the national conversation about the changing role of consumer debt in America. The report examines how decades of wage stagnation, rising costs and increasing reliance on high-...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: As artificial intelligence fundamentally reshapes the way work is organized, a new survey conducted by Ifop on behalf of Gecina (Paris:GFC), among executives of companies with 50 employees or more reveals a finding that challenges conventional wisdom: AI strengthens the office's strategic role by further anchoring it in high-value-added uses. 89% of executives believe that the office will remain just as strategic—or become even more strategic—as AI adopt...

LITTLETON, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wedding costs have always extended beyond the couple. But with everyday expenses taking up more of the household budget, new research from Red Rocks Credit Union shows that the cost of participating in wedding season, from travel and attire to gifts and related events, is becoming harder for many Coloradans to absorb. Many are reconsidering, scaling back or financing the cost of showing up.The second installment of Red Rocks Credit Union’s Summer Squeeze Survey...

STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Companies are redesigning IT operating models to support AI, strengthen resilience and improve consistency across distributed environments, ISG says....

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Back-to-school shopping has evolved far beyond notebooks and backpacks. For many families, laptops, tablets, smartphones, calculators, headphones, and other technology have become essential classroom tools, making back-to-school one of the biggest technology shopping seasons of the year—and one of the most expensive. With manufacturers now warning of rising technology prices driven by ongoing memory chip shortages, many families may find this year's purchases...

MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Hackett Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: HCKT), an ROI-led AI transformation firm, today announced AI World Class Finance benchmarks – new research that quantifies how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping finance performance and reveals a growing gap between organizations pursuing process-led transformation enabled by AI and those that simply automate existing processes.These new benchmarks build on The Hackett Group’s AI World Class research introduced in May, which identif...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NIQ (NYSE: NIQ), a global leader in consumer intelligence, today released new findings showing K-Beauty has become a rapidly growing global beauty segment, with value sales up 53% year-over-year and 131% over the past two years. The data points to a broader shift in beauty growth, as regional innovation, social commerce and digitally driven consumer demand increasingly shape what scales globally. In its latest report, K-Beauty Goes Global, NIQ shows how Korean beauty i...

DALLAS & OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AI has become a mainstream shopping channel for American consumers, and its influence is only accelerating. New national survey data from LDWW shows that nearly 7 in 10 Americans are already using AI to shop for products and services, and 71% expect to use the technology even more in the years ahead, a trend that is fundamentally reshaping how consumers discover, research and buy from brands. Growing Trend: AI Search is now “AI Shop” as more Americans tu...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Home prices are rising by double digits in a handful of affordable, inland cities anchored by universities, according to a new report from Redfin, the real estate brokerage powered by Rocket. Led by Morgantown, WV, Syracuse, NY and Tuscaloosa, AL, home prices in these college towns are rising more than five times faster than the 2% growth home prices saw nationwide in May. This is from a Redfin analysis of MLS data from the three months ending in May 2026 for college t...

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsara (NYSE: IOT), the pioneer of the Connected Operations® Platform, today released its 2026 State of Connected Operations (SOCO) Asset Theft & Loss Report, Quantifying the Hidden Cost of Asset Invisibility. The report finds that equipment theft and loss is not just a replacement-cost problem—it's an CAD $18M annual operational drain for mid-size organizations (majority between CAD $340M and <$1.4B annual revenue) without asset tracking. The bigger surprise i...