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This week a conference took place in Athens about the potential of digital marketing in driving Greece’s tourism sector.

The battle for online supremacy in China has heated up this week with Asia’s largest internet company, Tencent, buying a 15% stake in JD.com.

The right translation can be crucial for many aspects of big business, and business doesn’t get much bigger than Hollywood.

Research suggests the brain uses its syntactic areas to process communication in general – whether it’s language or music.

The Welsh Assembly has joined forces with computing giant Microsoft to develop a Welsh translation system.

The latest personal digital assistant is Microsoft’s Cortana, named after an artificially intelligent character in Microsoft's Halo sci-fi video game series.

A survey of 621 IT professionals found that nearly half the organisations thought popular cloud-sharing services such as DropBox and Google Docs are not suitable for business use.

Israeli news source Haaretz notes that although there is significant demand for translation services in the country, a skills gap exists.

Translators have deciphered a mysterious Viking code written in enigmatic runes that date back to the medieval period.

Wearable technologies might still be in their relative infancy, but devices like Google Glass are set to propel the technology into the mainstream.

As translation errors go, a mistake recently pointed out to the Sri Lankan government by the country’s angered Tamil community is a humdinger.

New research shows ‘child-directed’ speech sharpens infants' language processing skills and gives them a head-start.

Gamification could become more popular in the future to engage students in the process of learning languages.

A new app that allows men to translate what is being said by women into plain English.

Mahatma Gandhi, the father of India, is to grow in popularity in China thanks to a new Mandarin translation of his autobiography.

Try banishing the apostrophe and you risk facing a legion of angry grammarians intent of preserving the humble punctuation mark.

According to scientists, the brain has a systematic organization for basic sound feature units, kind of like elements in the periodic table.

Research by Royal Mail shows that 68% of UK retailers will target new international markets in 2014.

Figures show that 72% of lawyers in independent law companies say they are more likely to use cloud computing for their day today professional work than they were a year ago.

Two-thirds of US marketing professionals said they want to increase their spending on content curation in 2014.