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Voxy is more than Rosetta Stone meets The New York Times--it also provides location-based lessons about your immediate surroundings, and provides access to tutors via video chats. "Language learning is like learning how to cook or how to surf," says Voxy founder Paul Gollash. It’s not something that is best learned in a classroom.

Jargon and inside jokes can undermine a budding relationship with clients, vendors, prospects, or even co-workers. The Brits have an expression, "Too clever by half." It is not a compliment: It refers to people who create a sense of distrust because they come across as wily

Don't ignore your customers' headaches. Here's how you can use them to boost business.

Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need--for better organization--with web tools, events, even notebooks. How Behance Brings Order to Crazy Creatives Behance founders Scott Belsky and Matias Corea want to fulfill a broad creative industry need—for better organization—with web tools, events, even notebooks.

Between a great start-up concept and a great business lies a virtue no one much talks about any more. Do you have it? How many times have great brainstorms gone nowhere with your business partners

Between a great start-up concept and a great business lies a virtue no one much talks about any more. Do you have it

Between a great start-up concept and a great business lies a virtue no one much talks about any more.

Universal translators are something of a holy grail in mobile tech trends--and Microsoft's just revealed its latest effort at its own TechFest show. It's real-time. And it uses your own voice and face

Customers buy brands, not products. If you can't articulate the reason for your company's existence, you're going to lose out.

I've had the application to be certified as a women-owned business on my desk for six years. Here's why I just can't mail it in

Stop judging & start listening: Senior execs can learn something valuable from their youngest employees. This is part of a 2-part series.

Iran is unveiling a nationwide "Halal Intranet" this spring that will try to seal the nation off from the corrupting influences of Google, Facebook, and Twitter. But can it work

Afraid of failing?

It's time to put away the golf clubs and pull out Google Reader: Sales are no longer just about personal relationships. If you think customer loyalty is driven by personal relationships or because of your hard work, then not only are you wrong--but you're putting your revenue at risk.

While some schoolchildren daydream about crushes during class, delicately inscribing their names in paper margins, others instead yearn to one day discover and name their own species for the cute boy at the corner desk.