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Adopting voice commerce in 2024: Benefits and challenges

Open Access Government - Technology News

Revolutionalizing the shopping experience by embracing voice commerce in 2024 for seamless digital interactions Today, customers expect a frictionless shopping experience across online channels. billion from 2021 to 2026, showing a CAGR of 24.34%. billion from 2021 to 2026, showing a CAGR of 24.34%. In 2022, 26.8

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Life sciences M&A shows new signs of life

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Having peaked in 2021 and plummeted as the pandemic ended, deal value revived in 2023, with pharma companies pursuing growth and medtech companies chasing profitability. These trends promise to continue in 2024.

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Four Years After the Pandemic, Work-From-Home Trends Reshape Residential Choices and Real Estate

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

1] In 2024, between 25 and 30% of the U.S. Davis, 2021. March 5, 2024. Data from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes (SWAA), which polls between 2,500 tand10,000 working-age U.S. residents, indicates that the average employee spends 28% of their full-paid workdays at home. [1] 2] Akan et al.

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Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review - Call for Submissions

A Library Writer's Blog

Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review is seeking articles for Volume 9, Issue 1, to be published in the Spring of 2024. 2021) "Free Lunch? Editorials will be due March 01, 2024. Just wanted to send out one more call! Recent peer-reviewed research featured in our journal has included: Hartman-Caverly, S.,

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Protecting a Moving Target: Why Network Visibility Is the Foundation to a Strong Cyber Defense

GovLoop

A Core Need In August 2021, the Office of Management and Budget released Memorandum 21-31, establishing federal requirements designed to increase government’s network visibility before, during and after a cybersecurity event. This article appeared in our guide, “The 2024 Cyber Agenda.”

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Call for Chapters: DEIA in Faith-Based HigherEd Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAMs)

A Library Writer's Blog

This reimagining aligns with “a commitment to social justice and the eradication of racial and all forms of oppression” (Leung & López-McKnight, 2021, p. All submissions must adhere to the Library Juice Press Author Guidelines.

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3 Keys for Federal Agencies Navigating Zero Trust Mandates

GovLoop

30, 2024, the end of the fiscal year. The concept of zero trust isn’t entirely new, but it has garnered more attention recently. Most notably, a January 2022 White House memo requires agencies to meet specific zero-trust strategy objectives by Sept.