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As businesses go global , the market for second-language acquisition continues to grow due to both increasing globalization and an increasingly diverse U.S. population

On a busy stretch of the Garden District in New Orleans—miles from the frat-boy brouhaha of Bourbon Street—Aidan Gill is rebuilding the idea of the American male, one haircut at a time. Walk into his shop and you're met with a monument to the history of barbering (here, it's almost necessary to call them "barber arts"): Glass cases on the wall display tonics and lotions of ancient pedigree along with old blades, powder brushes, and some downright-medieval-looking grooming devices.

"Every 30 seconds, a Latino turns 18 years old." Marketers, take note. Univision, the Spanish-language network, outperformed NBC in primetime last week, which makes twice in four weeks that it achieved the feat against the so-called "Big Four"--ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS.

LinkedIn 's just launched its new platform to everyone online interested in hooking up to the business networking site's APIs. Useful stuff, for some, but what it's really about is trying to usurp Facebook in the enterprise social networking space. Back in October, LinkedIn revealed some of its plans when it gave "over a thousand developers" early access to a new Javascript-based platform that would let third parties integrate more closely with LinkedIn's extensive business-based social graph.

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AUGUSTA, Georgia (AP) -Ryo Ishikawa understands that whatever pressure he faces this week at the Masters doesn't even compare with what his people in Japan are facing as they try to recover from the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed so many lives.

A newly developed nanoparticle cream could hold the cure for nickel allergies and skin irritation from metal jewelery. Approximately 10% of the population has a nickel allergy that causes skin irritation when they wear inexpensive metal jewelery or handle coins for an extended period of time.

Academic librarians, led by Harvard's, are positioning themselves as the successors to Google's scuttled vision for a massive digital library. But do they lack a coherent vision? Not long ago a federal judge in Manhattan scuttled Google 's plans to create a digital universal library (a dream kicked off when Larry Page scanned "The Google Book" years ago--his company has since scanned 15 million more).

Work coming out of MIT's Media Lab has taken the imaging powers of a Microsoft Kinect and used them to power software that reveals how we'll be videoconferencing in the future.

Prospecting, Sales, Marketing – oh my! It can all feel quite overwhelming and frustrating at times, can’t it? Recently, I spoke with an acquaintance who has been in the job market for over a year. I noticed a pattern in John’s marketing of himself that I’ve seen in many business owners as well.

Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, may not be panicking quite yet about its ever-declining oil supply--but the country is certainly concerned. Consider: in February, a Wikileaks document revealed that Saudi Arabia might be overstating its oil reserves by 300 billion barrels, and the country recently asked for a slice of the UN's $100 billion climate change fund to help diversify to other energy sources (a galling request from such a wealthy country so dependent on other people not diversifying to other energy sources). And now the kingdom has announced that it plans to spend $100 billion on solar, nuclear, and other renewable energy sources.

Only half of new small businesses survive beyond their fifth anniversary.

Harvard Business School Taught by: Noam Wasserman Most entrepreneurship classes chase the strategy-innovation-finance trifecta. But people problems cause more than 60 percent of new-venture failures, research shows.

In a world in which knowledge is power, what you don't know can hurt you.

Stanford's new entrepreneurship class is not for the faint of heart. Launchpad is designed around a series of hurdles: the elevator pitch, the functional prototype, week after week of sales results.