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Friday, July 27, 2012

Open English: Online Teaching

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80,000 students for $43 million does not jive. The number of students needs to be much higher.

Open English raises $43 million to teach English online across Latin America
Open English was founded in 2006 and launched commercially in 2008. Since then, it has expanded all across Spanish-speaking Latin America and Brazil, while Flybridge invested $4.25 million in its May 2011′s Series B round. ..... more than 50,000 students in 20 countries, it now plans to use its new funding to reach the 80,000 student milestone by the end of the year
Why only English? This can and should be applied to any subject, at any level.
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Google Plus Ramping Up

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They tried with Buzz, they made an attempt with Wave. Finally they nailed it with Google Plus. So much so that I think Facebook should go into search. Imagine a search engine that only delivers you search results from pages and sites liked by your friends, and friends of friends.

Google+ traffic soars: 66 percent increase in nine months
110.7 million international visitors in June. In the US, traffic increased from 15.2 million to 27.7 million visitors over the same period
These numbers are going to get better. And I expect Google to keep enriching the product.
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