Posts Tagged ‘Rosetta Stone

Today, IBM is introducing a new social media monitoring tool, one that it says will measure consumer sentiment from data gathered on Twitter, blogs and other web services and networks. The software, called the SPSS Modeler data mining and text analytics workbench, will use natural language processing (NLP) to analyze everything from product names and [...]

U.S. software retail sales fell slightly by just over 1 percent for the 2009 holiday season, according to The NPD Group. Sales for the 5-week holiday period totaled $278 million dollars, up from the 13 percent decline during the 2008 holiday season. The operating systems category showed the strongest improvement during the holiday season, boosted [...]

If there is one thing every Web business executive can agree on, it’s that websites need to motivate people to act. That action can be to place an order, send an email, pick-up the phone, or maybe just join a mailing list, but whatever the intended response, your website must cause a reaction. It’s a [...]

Today the White House is hosting a forum with more than 50 of the country’s top CEOs — Chris Hughes (Facebook), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Jeremy Stoppelman (Yelp) all made the VIP list — with the purpose of finding ways to modernize the government using technology. The forum is set to begin this afternoon, just after 1 p.m. [...]

Language instruction may not seem like a ticket to riches. But Rosetta Stone, which specializes in the field, became one of 2009’s most heralded initial public offerings before running into subsequent headwinds. Now Fluenz has entered the fray. The Miami-based company says it hopes to distinguish itself with an academic and systematic approach to learning [...]


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