CategoryRelated News ItemsAt Some Business Schools, the Salesman's Not DeadThu, 17 May 2012 06:05:45 -0700
Companies are hiring MBAs with sales experience, according to an executive career coach.
Read More... Provalis Research Announces the Availability of Three Sentiment Analysis Dictionaries for its WordStat Content ...Wed, 09 May 2012 00:26:39 -0700
Provalis Research announces the availability of three sentiment analysis dictionaries: the Loughran and McDonald Financial Sentiment Dictionary, for the analysis of accounting and financial news; the Lexicoder Sentiment Dictionary for the analysis of political news; and the WordStat Sentiment Dictionary, a general purpose sentiment dictionary for analyzing customer feedback, social media ...
Read More... Local faux fur store evades evictionFri, 18 May 2012 03:02:16 -0700
A judge has ruled that an Aspen business owner can’t be evicted from her North of Nell space because faux fur is different than the real thing. read more
Read More... For MBAs, Learning Sales the Hard WayMon, 30 Apr 2012 22:39:28 -0700
Grad students in Texas study entrepreneurship--and learn some tough lessons about sales. Cory Older, an M.B.A. student at the Acton School of Business in Austin, steeled himself as he prepared to knock on yet another stranger's door--the 100th he had hit in two days. Frankly, he wasn't proving very good at selling dictionaries, but he had to make quota to stay in school. The classic story of a ...
Read More... Acorn International Reports First Quarter 2012 Financial ResultsWed, 23 May 2012 03:00:00 -0700
SHANGHAI, China -- Acorn International, Inc. ("Acorn" or the "Company"), a media and branding company in China engaged in developing, promoting and selling products through extensive ...
Read More... Oxford University Press Launches 30 Oxford Bookworms Graded Readers AppsWed, 23 May 2012 03:52:21 -0700
Oxford University Press, the world’s largest academic publisher, has become the first English Language Teaching publisher to offer Graded Readers as apps for the iPhone®/iPod touch® and the iPad®. The apps, including 3 classic Sherlock Holmes tales, make 30 stories from the world famous Bookworms series available in a new format. ...
Read More... Small business wins with big dataTue, 01 May 2012 21:15:50 -0700
A recent US CIO article on the burgeoning phenomenon of Big Data, published in Reseller News, made much of the need for modern semantic search engines.
Read More... Petition To Change Definition Of Marriage In Dictionary Sweeps InternetThu, 24 May 2012 12:58:28 -0700
The definition of "marriage" has been debated in the halls of Congress and state Legislatures, in the voting booth and on the Internet. Now one man in favor of same-sex marriage is taking his argument to the dictionary, attempting to get dictionary.com to change its definition of marriage in a petition that has been signed by more than 27,000 supporters.
Read More... Want Your Startup Name in the Dictionary? Choose WiselyThu, 10 May 2012 06:39:38 -0700
The English language is constantly evolving. Experts at Merriam-Webster and the Oxford English Dictionary perennially add words that have been invented and accepted in our daily lexicons. The practice can be controversial, however, since it sometimes involves removing other, older words entirely.
Read More... Babylon.com Launches New Mobile Applications Available for iPhone, Android and Windows PhoneTue, 08 May 2012 07:05:00 -0700
NEW YORK, May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon.com, the leading language solutions provider, releases a suite of new translation apps in dozens of different languages for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. ...
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