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Seatwave and The Echo Nest let developers earn revenue from in-app ticket sales
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Fan-to-fan ticket marketplace Seatwave is the latest company to join The Echo Nest‘s Rosetta Stone project, meaning that developers will be able to integrate ticketing features into their apps seamlessly along with data from a range of other APIs. The Rosetta Stone project, so named because it allows different APIs...
Google updates translate plugin and Android app, unites nations
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If your website lacks a little... je ne sais quois, it either needs something special, or that thing was lost in translation. If your managing different languages with Google's Website Translator plugin, however, then a new feature could put a stop to odd or inaccurate interpretations of your text....
Any Spotify app developer can now tap The Echo Nest’s ‘music intelligence’ technology
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Last November, we reported that Spotify was morphing into a platform, integrating apps inside the music-streaming service, such as Songkick, Pitchfork and Billboard. It has been gradually rolling out more apps in the four months since, and today it has been announced that ‘music intelligence platform’ The Echo Nest and...
Rosetta Stone Acquires Kid-Focused Language-Learning Startup GoGo Lingo
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Rosetta Stone, for those unfamiliar, are the makers of the oft-advertised language learning software of the same name. The 20-year-old Virginia-based company went public in 2009, and today makes learning software for over 30 languages that is used in over 150 countries. Its software aims to assist people of all...
Rosetta Stone acquires Livemocha for $8.5m to move its language learning platform into the cloud
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Language teaching software Rosetta Stone has acquired Livemocha, an online portal for language-learning communities, for $8.5 million today. Rosetta Stona has bought the company for its cloud-based learning platform and 16 million strong userbase in order to accelerate its own growth in Internet-based teaching solutions. “We are in the process...
Question Of Whether It’s Legal To Use Trademarks As Keywords Revived On Appeal in Rosetta Stone/Google Case
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today revived part of Rosetta Stone’s trademark lawsuit against Google, meaning the search giant’s permitting the use of trademarked terms in AdWords is still legally questionable in the United States. It’s the first time an... Please visit Search Engine Land for the...
Question Of Whether It’s Legal To Use Trademarks As Keywords Revived On Appeal in Rosetta Stone/Google Case
Rosetta Stone Buys Up Online Language Learning Community Livemocha For $8.3M In Cash
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Rosetta Stone has just acquired Seattle-based online language-learning community Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash. Livemocha has one of the largest online language-learning communities in the world, boasting over 16 million members from over 195 different countries. Rosetta Stone will likely use Livemocha’s cloud platform to offer its language packages...
Advengers Assemble! Facebook Gathers Creative Council Of Agency Execs To Advise On Product
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If Facebook is going to get its share price above water, it needs the support the ad agencies. So today it announced the Creative Council — 14 agency execs that will provide advice, and Studio Edge, a suite of new marketing education tutorials. The Creative Council will be a “sounding board...
The Echo Nest Grabs More Data: Partners With Concert Listing Provider JamBase & SongMeanings
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Music intelligence startup Echo Nest, which you might know better as the company powering Spotify Radio and Vevo’s recommendations, is announcing two new partnerships today which will give developers access to more data to build their apps with. The company is teaming up with JamBase, which provides concerts listings and tour schedules, and SongMeanings,...
The Echo Nest reels in Songkick data to help music fans see more concerts
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Music intelligence platform The Echo Nest has announced a partnership with live music database Songkick with a view towards guiding more fans to see more concerts. The Echo Nest has expanded its Rosetta Stone platform meaning that developers can summon precise elements from a range of sources to include within...
Facebook agrees to pay $10 million to settle Sponsored Stories suit
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Facebook is agreeing to pay $10 million to a charitable fund to settle a Northern District of California suit surrounding its Sponsored Stories ads. The case had been settled last month but details haven’t been made public until the weekend. The 'Holy Grail' of advertising Sponsored Stories launched back...
Rosetta Stone looks to the cloud with $8.5M acquisition of language learning site Livemocha
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Rosetta Stone, one of the biggest names in language learning, has picked up Seattle-based startup Livemocha. In an announcement Tuesday, the 20-plus-year-old company said the $8.5 million acquisition is intended to help it move more quickly into the cloud. Rosetta Stone, which charges between $350 and $500 for its language...
Apple scourge Lodsys continues patent rampage against developers, corporations
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Patent troll Lodsys became infamous after it extracted a license from Apple only to turn around and sue small iOS app developers for including features like in-app purchasing in their products. But one startup is now taking a stand and has asked a federal court to examine the case. Lodsys,...
Court resurrects Rosetta Stone’s trademark lawsuit against Google
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Rosetta Stone Inc., the company best known for producing language learning software, got a dose of good news in its longstanding trademark infringement suit with Google on Monday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has decided to address whether Google is in violation of trademark infringement...
Rosetta Stone Acquires Livemocha to Decipher the Cloud
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Language learning company Rosetta Stone Inc. Tuesday announced it has acquired Seattle-based Livemocha for $8.5 million in cash. The transaction closed Monday. While Rosetta Stone has made its mark selling language courses through CDs offered at iconic yellow kiosks in malls and airports around the world, Livemocha’s language courses are...
Google And Rosetta Stone Agree To Settle Suit Over Trademarked Keywords
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One of Google’s most well-funded and tenacious opponents in the legal arena, Rosetta Stone, has agreed to settle its trademark suit against the search giant. The language learning software company had contended that the use of its trademarks as “keyword triggers” infringed trademark law and... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full...
Got 'curves' and want to 'flaunt' them? Then learn all from Mail Online
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The Daily Mail's obsession with 'curves' says an awful lot more about its skewed ideas of women than it does about fashionI have always wanted to flaunt my curves. Do I need to wear a bikini, or will a low-cut dress do?Helen, by emailWhile I - to quote Dustin Hoffman in...
Rosetta Stone Brings Live Video Chat Tutorials To Mobile Language Learners With New App
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It wasn’t all that long ago that Rosetta Stone released its free iPad app. We liked it, and felt like it was a great way to bring Rosetta Stone’s now-famous ease-of-use to a mobile education-friendly device like the iPad. But not all of the features available on Rosetta Stone desktop...
Rosetta Stone cracks Livemocha, buys online language community for $8.5M
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Seattle online language community Livemocha has been acquired by Rosetta Stone for $8.5 million in cash. The deal is hardly a home run , given that six-year-old Livemocha had raised more than $14 million in venture capital over the years. It’s also an odd pairing given some of the biting...
Unfortunate: Appeals Court Revives Misguided Rosetta Stone Lawsuit Against Google
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There have been a number of silly lawsuits against Google for the fact that companies can buy AdWords ads based on trademarked terms. These lawsuits are problematic on a few different levels. First, using trademarked keywords to trigger ads isn't infringement. It's a perfectly reasonable use. In the same way...
Lodsys Continues Demanding Cut Of Smartphone Apps; Developers Hit Back In Court
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The story of Lodsys is, by now, quite an infamous one in smartphone app development circles. The "company" (and I use that term loosely) owns a few patents, which it basically claims covers any iPhone app that involves in-app payments: 5,999,908: Customer-based product design module 7,133,834: Product value information interchange...
Quincy Jones on technology, music and his Playground Sessions piano learning startup
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Quincy Jones, the music legend who produced Michael Jackson’s Thriller album and has the record for the most Grammy Award nominations, is one of the creators of Playground Sessions, a startup that’s reinventing the traditional piano lesson with an app that gamifies the experience and provides instant feedback as you...
Rosetta Stone settles trademark infringement lawsuit against Google
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Rosetta Stone, the Arlington language software maker, has agreed to drop a three year-long lawsuit against Google that accused the search giant of illegally selling Rosetta Stone trademarks to third-party advertisers that linked to sites selling counterfeit software. Read full article >>...
Court revives Rosetta Stone lawsuit against Google
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A lawsuit that was originally filed in 2009 and subsequently dismissed in 2010 has now been brought back. A federal appeals court on Monday brought back most of the case, which was filed by Rosetta Stone against Google. The plaintiff argued that Google committed trademark infringement by selling Rosetta Stone's...
Echo Nest, Spotify bring API integration to developers
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Echo Nest, the self-proclaimed music intelligence platform that supplies music data, has now partnered with streaming music service Spotify to allow developers integrate data into their apps. Developers will now just need to use a Spotify song's ID to pair it with Echo Nest's Rosetta Stone database, which includes song...
Rosetta Stone, Google settle trademark lawsuit
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Language-learning software maker Rosetta Stone has dropped its trademark infringement suit against Google, it was revealed today, with both companies agreeing to settle all claims and dismiss the suit. The development brings to an end a case originally filed in 2009, dismissed in 2010, and revived in federal court in...
IRL: Rosetta Stone, PocketWizard and the TomTom Via 1530
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Welcome to IRL, an ongoing feature where we talk about the gadgets, apps and toys we're using in real life and take a second look at products that already got the formal review treatment. Fun fact: this edition of IRL was compiled and timed up about a month ago...
Social Networking Drives Business Processes at Pandora and Rosetta Stone
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Pandora and Rosetta Stone have embraced social business tools and the cloud to cut costs, increase productivity and improve collaboration. Learn how these two companies overcame security concerns, gained executive buy-in and more....
5 big reasons Rosetta Stone's buy-out of LiveMocha was a mistake
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Tyler Muse is founder of LingoLive. Hours after April Fool’s day, LiveMocha CEO Michael Schutzler announced that his company was being acquired by the behemoth he had battled for five years: Rosetta Stone. There are 5 reasons why you should be skeptical this acquisition will save Rosetta Stone, which...
Google Releases "Dartium" Browser for Developers
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Google is trying to get developers interested in Dart with a technology preview of the Dart VM in Chromium, better known as Dartium. The plan is ultimately to include the Dart VM in Chrome itself, but no timeline has been given yet for that. Google has been pushing pretty hard...
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