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Language learning site LiveMocha has raised $8 million in a second round of funding led by August Capital; existing investor Maveron also participated.

Addison-Wesley is releasing three new eBooks for Apple developers: The iPhone Developera s Cookbook, Second Edition : , providing information on how to build applications using the iPhone 3.0 SDK, Core Animation : , and Cocoa Programming Developera s Handbook : . Print versions of the titles will be published later this month.

Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a Pearson company.

British media group Pearson will continue to invest 8 percent of sales from its education business in new products through next year, which it expects to be a very tough year for U.S. school textbooks.

What's a great holiday gift in a recession, yes a good old fashioned book. Random House just got its new Dan Brown bestseller on the shelves.

Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs , which provides step-by-step information on identifying and fixing problems, adding hardware, optimizing performance, and building new PCs from scratch, has been the top-selling hardware book for 20 years, according to Bookscan, the book sales monitoring and analysis service.

There are not many places where, in the same room, one can speak with the chairmen of Royal Bank of Scotland, BT, Pearson, J Sainsbury, Land Securities, 3i, ITV, DSG International, Balfour Beatty and Halfords.

"i3 Pharma Informatics is the provider of investigator and site information based on patient counts from a large database of information relating to private claims.

Alison Cooper will become the latest in the handful of women in charge of a FTSE 100 company when she takes the reins at Imperial Tobacco next May.

Four themes more or less dominated an interesting panel discussion on media and entertainment at the India Economic Summit of the World Economic Forum yesterday.

Pearson VUE, the leader in secure high-stakes testing, is pleased to announce the launch of a new website www.certifyyourfuture.com : in honor of Veterans Day, Nov.

Tee Morris from Que Publishing and Bill Jelen from Que Publishing to be interviewed on Let's Talk Computers, airing on 11/06/2009 NASHVILLE, TN -- Guests from Que Publishing and Que Publishing will appear on radio talk show "Let's Talk Computers". Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a ...

FT Group's paid content strategy is steering the business back into revenue growth, as it announces a three percent sales lift for the first nine months of the year and a 10 percent revenue rise with the favourable dollar exchange rate.

European shares were choppy on Tuesday, as investors took profits in some sectors following U.S. housing data but earnings helped to underpin sentiment.

It now expects full-year adjusted earnings to be at or above 60 pence per share assuming current exchange rates prevail in the fourth quarter.

High demand for titles by Jamie Oliver and Nick Hornby as well as eBook sales helped Penguin, while the group said FT subscription sales have remained popular despite the downturn.

Revenue down 14% at FT publishing a ' but parent company says it has seen off the worst of the recession Revenue at FT Publishing, the newspaper division which owns the Financial Times , fell 14% year on year in the first nine months this year as parent company Pearson lifted its 2009 earnings forecast, predicting it had seen off the worst of the ...

What did Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos do to make so many enemies? Seriously, I'm asking.

Guests from Que Publishing and Avanquest Software will appear on radio talk show "Let's Talk Computers". Que Publishing is a company of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publisher and a Pearson company.

Cisco Press, the official publisher of Cisco certification and networking technology materials, announced today the release of PM Crash Course a for IT Professionals , the first book of its kind bringing together the largest IT Publisher with the best-selling Project Management author Rita Mulcahy .