Sigma’s Customer Support Team was recognized with the Gold Stevie Award for Customer Service Team of the Year. The award was received in recognition of the Sigma customer support team’s exceptional adaptability, efficiency in enhancing service capabilities, and their effective use of leveraging Sigma's proprietary cloud analytics solutions to manage and scale support operations. More than 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories.
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Walmart will close all 51 of its health care clinics in six states. Walmart had made a big push into health care in recent years. The announcement is an abrupt reversal in Walmart’s strategy.
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The most influential players in the health industry are fighting over a controversial plan to let the attorney general block hedge funds and private equity firms from acquiring health care facilities. The Legislature’s analysis of the bill says “private equity acquisitions in health care have exploded” The trend results “in higher health care costs, poor quality and less access to care” The battle involves some of the heaviest hitters in the state’s big-money political influence game.
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KULR Technology Group announces a leap forward in battery technology tailored for defense and space applications. At the heart of this partnership is Amprius' silicon-anode SA10 cells, which are set to provide a tactical edge through superior energy density and discharge capability. This strategic partnership sets a new standard for battery solutions in high-stakes environments. The report forecasts that by 2035 the sector’s valuation could reach $1.8 trillion, putting it on par with the influential semiconductor industry
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The City of Columbia’s Office of Business Opportunities is hosting its 11th Annual Small Business Week Conference. The event is taking place Wednesday, May 1 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Columbia Greystone. Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with WIS.
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Amazon Q Business is a generative AI-powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With general availability, we’re introducing a new content creation mode in the web experience. You can use AWS IAM Identity Center to manage user access to all your applications. To learn more, visit Admin control and guardrails in the AWS documentation.
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Scientists may be a step closer to discovering how gamma-ray bursts are created by some of the universe's most violent events. This includes things like supernova explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars and the collision and merger of two neutron stars. Yet aspects of these blasts remain shrouded in mystery, including the exact mechanism that launches a GRB and what exactly causes a "long' GRB that lasts more than 2 seconds versus
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Sarah Teichmann started a group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 2001 and became an MRC program leader in 2006. In 2013, she moved to be the first and only joint faculty member across the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Sanger Institute, and was appointed Head of Cellular Genetics at the University of Cambridge in 2016. She has also co-founded the Human Cell Atlas (HCA) international consortium, which she co-leads
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EY Americas Technology, Media and Telecommunications Leader says AI is transforming the way we work, creating new opportunities for innovation and growth. 72% of respondents reported their employees are using AI at least daily in the workplace. Nearly half said they believe more regulation is needed.
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Xperi's Board has transformed, reconfigured and repositioned the Company for long-term success. Investors and security holders may obtain copies of these forward-looking statements based on information available to the Company as of the date of this press release. This press release contains "forward-looking Statements' within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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