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eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Down Payment Resource (DPR), the housing industry authority on homebuyer assistance program data and solutions, today released its Q1 2025 Homeownership Program Index (HPI) report. The report saw the number of entities offering homebuyer assistance programs increase by 55 year-over-year (YoY). The number of programs increased by 43 during the first quarter, bringing the total number of available programs to 2,509.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- Industrial SalesLeads released its November 2024 report on planned capital project spending in the Industrial Manufacturing industry, highlighting a significant uptick in activity. The firm, which monitors North American industrial capital project plans, including facility expansions, new plant construction, and major equipment modernizations, identified 151 new projects for the month.

eNewsChannels NEWS: -- The EraNova Institute today announced a special report, "In the Cloud, Our Buildings and We Can Fly - Toward a Smart, Green Life." Dick Samson, Director of EraNova and author of the report, says "Buildings need to get smart if society is to get green."

eNewsChannels NEWS: (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- A brand new study by construction industry research non-profit Smart Cities Prevail shows that linking prevailing wage standards with proposed reforms to streamline new housing development would close the affordability gap, save state and local governments tens of millions of dollars annually, and disproportionately benefit communities of color.

eNewsChannels NEWS: (POMPANO BEACH, Fla.) -- ACES Risk Management (ARMCO), the leading provider of financial quality control and compliance software, announced that it has released its ARMCO Mortgage QC Industry Trends report for the third quarter of 2016. Using the Fannie Mae loan defect taxonomy, the report analyzes post-closing quality control data from loan files and findings captured by the ACES Analytics benchmarking system.

eNewsChannels NEWS: (PHOENIX, Ariz.) -- RestaurantOwner.com released the 2017 POS Survey Report today. The report summarizes input gathered from 1,190 independent restaurant owners from around the world regarding over 100 different brands of POS systems, focusing on several critical aspects including cost, installation and support experience, and features. The results of this survey provide unique insight into the POS system market and emerging trends, all of which are valuable to independent restaurant owners.

NEWS: (GREAT FALLS, Va.) LeaseAccelerator, the leader in Equipment Lease Management software, published today a report listing the off-balance sheet lease obligations of the 500 largest U.S. public companies. The report, entitled "Who is Most Impacted by the New Lease Accounting Standards?" aims to provide greater awareness of the potential impact of the new lease accounting standards.

NEWS: Veros Real Estate Solutions, an award-winning industry leader in enterprise risk management, collateral valuation services and predictive analytics, today reports that residential market values will continue in a positive trajectory over the next 12 months, with overall annual appreciation rising to +3.6 percent from its Q2 forecast of 3.1 percent. The number of markets expected to increase in value is up to 94 percent from last quarter's 90 percent.

MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: According to the Pantheory Research Organization in their recent research study, entitled 'Observations that Seem to Contradict the Big Bang Model While at the Same Time Support an Alternative Cosmology' they summarized problems associated with many present and past distant galaxy observations that seem to contradict the Big Bang model.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Thintri, Inc. has announced a new market study that predicts explosive growth in markets for eye tracking. According to the report, 'Market Opportunities in Eye Tracking, 2015,' eye tracking is penetrating markets as diverse as market and advertising research, medical and even psychiatric diagnosis, website and online content development.

MADISON, Wis. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Just completed research by Colorado State University Economist Kevin Duncan and Smart Cities Prevail Researcher Alex Lantsberg reveals that Wisconsin's proposed prevailing wage repeal (AB 32) will cost the state nearly 9,000 jobs, $1.2 billion in economic output, $77 million in tax revenue, and will export an estimated $500 million in construction investments out of state.

WASHINGTON, D.C. /eNewsChannels/ NEWS: This year’s "Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange," released November 17, 2014, on the occasion of the 15th annual...

DURANGO, Colo. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Overall U.S. spending on telecom is expected to increase nearly two percent from $422B this year to $456B in 2019, though such modest growth masks the cavernous disparities between business versus consumer outlays across more than 19 different hardware, software, and service segments tracked in this new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation.

LONGPORT, N.J. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Facebook's $16 Billion acquisition of startup WhatsApp is the latest example of how the mature voice market is being challenged by alternative communications mediums, says Insight Research. While the $500 billion US telecommunications service market will continue to grow over the next few years, Insight Research forecasts that voice revenues will decline at a 4.8 percent annual rate as consumers continue to 'cut cords' and businesses migrate to VoIP platforms.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Planese, Inc. this week released a summary of its latest Consumer Satisfaction Survey, the first for 2014. Local Retailers are the best at meeting the needs of their customers - and grocery stores offer the most predictable consumer experience. The report was compiled from a survey of U.S. homeowners to determine their level of satisfaction with purchases of goods and services in 11 key industries.

NEW YORK, N.Y. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: A new report from Thintri, Inc., says wireless technologies are poised to radically transform healthcare as we know it today. The emergence of these technologies coincides with a rapidly evolving regulatory environment, an overhauled insurance regime and new business models such as fee-for-outcome replacing fee-for-service and growing interest in using wireless technology in patient care, fitness and wellness, facilities management and other applications.

DURANGO, Colo. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: According to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation, U.S. Cable MSOs are on track this year to reach $8.8 billion in annual revenues providing telecommunications services to small and medium-size businesses, despite competition from entrenched telco providers, who have owned this segment for the past thirty years.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: Planese, Inc. today announced that homeowners across the U.S. are now willing to spend 30 percent of the value of their home when they remodel; remodeling expense as a percentage of home value has been trending upward since 2007. Consumers also plan to use materials that are more expensive and spend an average of $102,000 to improve their homes.

MOUNTAIN LAKES, N.J. /eNewsChannels/ -- NEWS: U.S. enterprises are expected to spend more than $49 billion over the next five years on Ethernet services provided by carriers, according to a new market research study from The Insight Research Corporation. 'Ethernet services in the small to mid-sized business market is the fastest growing segment of this market, while wireless backhaul still commands the top segment,' says Fran Caulfield, Director of Research at Insight.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- After a year of steady declines in home remodeling, the Spring 2010 RemodelorMove.com U.S. Remodeling Sentiment Report reveals a 13% increase...

BOONTON, N.J. -- After years of steady growth, the $34 billion private line services market is entering a period of declining revenue, says a...

BOONTON, N.J. -- Despite the unsteady state of the global financial markets, the worldwide telecommunications industry is expected to continue expanding over the next...

LONDON, UK -- Denimology, The Purseblog and Hypebeast have been named as the three most influential fashion blogs. This is according to Konector's latest...

BOONTON, N.J. -- Analysis of most recent FCC data (Jan. 2008) reveals that about 45 million of the more than 117 million US households...

CHICAGO, Ill. -- KnowledgeAdvisors, one of the world's largest providers of learning and talent measurement solutions, today announced it has released a new benchmark...