NEW YORK, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Block Renovation, the AI renovation platform empowering homeowners and contractors to build better together, today released its How America Renovates: What U.S. Homeowners Are Budgeting, Planning, & Remodeling in 2025 report. The report offers a candid snapshot of how Americans are managing the financial pressures, emotional stress, and logistical hurdles of home renovation, drawing insights from a nationwide survey of more than 1,000 homeowners. The report finds that 73% of U.S. homeowners are using personal savings to fund renovations—far more than credit cards (17%) or home equity loans (15%). Gen X and Boomers are most likely to self-fund,…
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Behavioral AI Solution Eliminates Socially Engineered Fraud by Analyzing Anomalies Across Vendors, Employees, Emails, Financial Systems, and Controls NEW YORK, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Trustmi, the leader in social engineering fraud prevention, today announced that it has been recognized by Enterprise Security Tech as Best in Show at the 2025 RSA Conference. The Enterprise Security Tech RSAC 2025 Best of Show Awards recognize the cybersecurity companies that stood out from the crowd during this year’s RSA Conference. These awards spotlight the innovators making the biggest impact in today’s increasingly complex cyber landscape. Winners were selected for product innovation, strategic announcements, market momentum, and meaningful impact on today’s top cybersecurity challenges. “Used…
PepsiCo selects AWS as a strategic cloud provider for AI, supply chain and consumer experience. PURCHASE, N.Y., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) today announced a strategic, multi-year agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), reinforcing its commitment to accelerating enterprise-wide digital transformation. By leveraging AWS’s infrastructure and services, PepsiCo is driving faster AI innovation, transforming its supply chain and go-to-market strategies, and creating deeper, more personalized experiences with consumers. “A cloud-first approach has been essential to PepsiCo’s ongoing digital transformation,” said Athina Kanioura, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer at PepsiCo. “This strategic…
Cresta will help Optimum improve sales conversion rates, accelerate efficient revenue growth, and empower their agents with the use of Generative AI PALO ALTO, Calif., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cresta, the leading contact center artificial intelligence (AI) platform for human and AI agents, today announced that Optimum, one of the largest broadband communications and video services providers in the United States, will be deploying Cresta’s generative AI-powered solutions at scale to enhance its customer experience and drive efficient revenue growth. Optimum will begin implementation with Cresta Conversation Intelligence and Cresta Agent Assist to enable its agents to more effectively and efficiently handle customer requests, while also improving sales conversion…
In May, users can access the $199/month Premium Plan at no cost. Additionally, those who register during the month will be entered into a giveaway to win an iPad and a full year of the Premium Plan. MIAMI, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — In celebration of Small Business Month and to mark its first anniversary, the digital business platform Consulting IQ is giving all small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across the U.S. free access to its full suite of AI-powered consulting tools throughout May under its Premium Plan. This initiative is designed to equip SMBs with cutting-edge resources and strategic insights typically reserved for larger enterprises, all…
The collaboration expands a previous OEM agreement allowing Siemens to offer Cybord’s advanced visual AI solutions to electronics manufacturers globally WILMINGTON, Del., May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cybord, a leading provider of advanced visual-AI electronic component analytics, and Siemens Digital Industries Software have signed a new OEM agreement to integrate Cybord’s cutting-edge AI technology with Siemens’ Opcenter™ software for Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). The collaboration expands a previous OEM agreement and enables Siemens to offer Cybord’s powerful AI solutions to Opcenter customers and Siemens’ factories globally. The integration of Cybord’s visual AI platform with Siemens’ Opcenter empowers manufacturers to enhance quality control of their Surface…
Reference acknowledges the value of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in advancing AI TRiSM efforts WASHINGTON, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use, today announced it has been named in the 2025 Gartner “Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk and Security Management.” The Guide identifies Enveil as a provider of Privacy Enhancing Technologies, specifically mentioning the company’s use of homomorphic encryption. Included in the report’s Information Governance section, the reference acknowledges the relevance of Privacy Enhancing Technologies in the context of AI Trust, Risk and Security Management (TRiSM): “Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) are a collection of tools that…
SOCi’s 2025 Consumer Behavior Index shows traffic and visibility are vanishing as traditional search strategies are breaking down SAN DIEGO, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — “Just Google it” is not enough anymore. Marketers blame AI, algorithms, or platform changes for declining visibility, but the real issue is something bigger. According to SOCi’s newly released 2025 Consumer Behavior Index (CBI), while 83% of consumers still use traditional engines to search, platforms like social media (73%), navigation apps (58%), review sites (19%), and AI tools (19%) have turned consumer discovery into a free-for-all. Brands are fighting for attention across a fragmented landscape, and those still focused…
Logistics workers also rank highest in AI adoption AUSTIN, Texas, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The ActivTrak Productivity Lab today announced key findings for the logistics sector revealing it has the longest workday at 9 hours and 10 mins, 26 mins longer than the cross-industry average. Additionally, logistics leads all industries with 20% of workers overutilized and 15% at risk of burnout. Overutilization refers to an employee who exceeds their daily productive hours goal by more than 30%, based on thresholds set by their employer. Burnout risk applies to employees who spend more than 75% of their time overutilized annually. The Productivity Lab studied three…
16th Annual Report Tracks Global Media Trends Across AI, Social Media, Pitching Best Practices, and the Evolving Role of PR CHICAGO, May 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cision, the global leader in consumer and media intelligence, today released its 16th annual State of the Media Report, an industry-defining study of more than 3,000 journalists across 19 global markets. This year’s findings uncover the pressures and possibilities shaping modern journalism—from shifting audience behavior and AI disruption to the continued demand for relevance, accuracy, and real human connection in PR outreach. For over a decade and a half, Cision’s State of the Media Report has offered unparalleled insight…