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At Some Business Schools, the Salesman's Not Dead
Thu, 17 May 2012 06:05:45 -0700
Companies are hiring MBAs with sales experience, according to an executive career coach.
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Local faux fur store evades eviction
Fri, 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
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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 ...
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For MBAs, Learning Sales the Hard Way
Mon, 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 ...
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Tough times for small U.S. films despite bumper Cannes
Sat, 19 May 2012 04:39:33 -0700
CANNES, France (Reuters) - In a bumper year for U.S. productions in Cannes, director John Hillcoat, presenting prohibition-era drama "Lawless" at the film festival on Saturday, said the state of smaller-budget American movies was "distressing". Lawless is in fact an international production - Hillcoat and two of his leading cast are Australian, as is scriptwriter and musician Nick Cave. But the ...
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Small business wins with big data
Tue, 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.
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Writing Wrongs: A few words on a few words
Sun, 20 May 2012 00:19:09 -0700
Ken Hooton, Ph.D. The Sierra Vista Herald/Bisbee Daily Review Here they go again! Recently, we’ve been inundated by a spate of “one-year anniversary” from the television illiterati. We had Catharine Herridge on Fox News on April 27, someone on Fox and Friends the following day, and Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes the day after that bending our ears with “one-year anniversary.” Somewhere in there, a ...
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Tough times for small US films despite bumper Cannes
Sat, 19 May 2012 06:34:58 -0700
CANNES, France (Reuters) - In a bumper year for U.S. productions in Cannes, director John Hillcoat, presenting prohibition-era drama "Lawless" at the film festival on Saturday, said the state of smaller-budget American movies was "distressing". Lawless is in fact an international production - Hillcoat and two of his leading cast are Australian, as is scriptwriter and musician Nick Cave. But the ...
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Want Your Startup Name in the Dictionary? Choose Wisely
Thu, 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.
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Babylon.com Launches New Mobile Applications Available for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
Tue, 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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