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QA Expands

New Head of Higher Education Business

London (UK), March 2014 - QA, one of the UK's leading learning organisations, has announced the appointment of Julie Noone as Managing Director of its expanding higher-education business. Julie joins QA from Kaplan UK, where she held the position of Chief Operating Officer. » MORE

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Electronic Gift Card Integration

Tim BuffBristol (UK), March 2014 - CM Group, a global provider in the field of innovative learning solutions comprising interactive eLearning and mobile learning, has announced the integration of its Luminosity Reach learning-management system and Luminosity Motion mobile-learning platform with Tango Card, the enterprise gift-card platform. » MORE

Dementia Alliance

Experiential Learning Tool Incorporates Gaming

Willie Cruickshank, Director at Norfolk & Suffolk Dementia AlliancePleasanton, CA (USA)/ London (UK), February 2014 - Norfolk and Suffolk Dementia Alliance and Toolwire have announced their winning of the Gold Award for "External Learning Solution of the Year" at The Learning Awards sponsored by the Learning and Performance Institute, a global institute for learning-and-development professionals. The tool is accessible for free through The Learning Location website, which is open to individual carers, families, professional staff, and organisations looking for relevant information, guides, and training support. » MORE

Alison Innes-Farquhar

Chief Learning Officer of the Year

Alison Innes-FarquharCambridge (UK), February 2014 - HC-One's Head of People and Organisational Development has won the Gold Award for Chief Learning Officer of the Year at the prestigious Learning Awards for her work with Acteon on a transformational staff-development programme. » MORE

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First Online TV Channel for the Training Industry

Coventry (UK), February 2014 - The OnlineTVGroup has launched TrainingSuccess.tv, the first online TV channel exclusively for the UK training sector, in association with The Training Foundation and supported by the British Institute for Learning & Development (BILD). » MORE

Mobile Opportunities

Europeans Spend 18% More Time Using Apps

London (UK), February 2014 - Localytics' data reveals that, in contrast to common perceptions, the European user base represents a huge opportunity for companies with a mobile presence. For example, Europeans reached for their apps more than their US counterparts in 2013, and their average session length increased considerably in Q4. » MORE

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NetDimensions Positioned again as a -œCore Leader-

London (UK), February 2014 - NetDimensions, a global provider of performance, knowledge, and learning-management systems, has been positioned again as a "Core Leader" in the 2014 release of the unique European learning and talent-market insight report, Elearnity 9-Grid™ for Learning Management Systems (LMS). » MORE

Rapid Adoption

Kaltura Raises $47 Mio on the Heels of Massive Growth

Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura New York, NY (USA), February 2014 - The open-source video platform Kaltura has secured an additional $47 million of funding. The financing round was led by new investors SAP Ventures, Nokia Growth Partners, Commonfund Capital, and Brazil-based Gera Ventures. There was also participation from existing investors: 406 Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Mitsui & Co. Global Investment, Inc., and Silicon Valley Bank. Kaltura will use the additional capital to further accelerate product development and extend operations into Brazil, Mexico, China, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and Korea. » MORE

QNB

ELearning Induction Programme from CM Group

Bristol (UK) / Seattle, WA (US), February 2014 - CM Group, one of the UK's largest providers of bespoke eLearning, has announced that QNB, a leading Middle Eastern bank, has gone live with its new innovative eLearning induction programme. » MORE