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ACQU I S I T I O N S A N D PA RTN E R SHIPS
DCI Consulting Group, a leading HR
risk management firm, announces the
acquisition of Savina Consulting, an
employment litigation support and HR
consulting firm. This acquisition will
allow DCI Consulting Group to provide
enhanced EEO litigation support and
expert witness services to their clients.
Lionbridge, one of the world's
most trusted global communication
platforms, announced its acquisition
of Gengo, a Tokyo-based, leading
edge technology company providing
crowdsourcing, machine learning,
and localization services to global
customers. The acquisition of Gengo
will strengthen Lionbridge's position

in the machine learning and content
relevance markets.
Vector Solutions, the leader in industryfocused e-learning and performance
support solutions, acquired CrewSense,
the leading employee resourcing
and human capital management
software for mission-critical sectors
including public safety, utilities, and
manufacturing. The acquisition furthers
Vector's strategy to expand its leading
e-learning and training platform into a
complete workforce and organization
performance optimization solution.
Raytheon Professional Services has
become a powerful new member of the
Zoola Analytics Partnership Program.

Raytheon Professional Services is a
global leader in training services and
outsourcing. This partnership allows
Raytheon to provide robust analytics
solutions to meet the reporting needs
for their clients to measure performance
and drive results.
KPA, a leading software as a service (SaaS)
and services provider for compliance
and workforce management solutions,
announced its acquisition of Compli,
a provider of HR business process
automation solutions. This transaction
accelerates KPA's strategy of delivering
and industry-defining compliance,
workforce management, and business
process automation platform to the
middle market.

INDUST RY N E WS
QUANTIFYING SKILL GAPS
AND PERSONALIZING THE
LEARNING EXPERIENCE
Voxy announced the launch of a new
tool that seeks to understand each
learner's nuanced language needs in
order to deliver personalized language
instruction online. The new functionality
draws upon machine learning to connect
learner goals and interests with targeted
recommendations from over 20,000+
pieces of instructional content and live
instruction. Access to rich analytics
gives talent management the ability to
track learner engagement, benchmark
progress and quantify business impact.
NEW, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL ADAPTIVE
LEARNING PLATFORM
Area9 Lyceum launched Area 9
Rhapsode™, its fourth-generation
adaptive learning platform, culminating
more than 20 years of cognitive research

and advanced computer science. Area9
Rhapsode™ is designed to meet the
learning, development, and publishing
needs across the education spectrum:
K-12
education,
post-secondary
education, and professional learning
and development. The platform also
offers a suite of publishing tools that can
be used to create, curate, and deliver
digital content.
ACCELERATOR PROGRAM
FOR LEARNING APPS
Kahoot!, the game-based learning
platform and the world's fastestgrowing learning brand, has launched
Kahoot! Ignite, an accelerator program
for innovative app teams around the
world. Teams selected for the program
can join Kahoot! on its journey to create
value for learners across all geographies
and champion the company's mission to
make learning awesome.

MILLENNIALS CITE LACK OF
MENTORSHIP AS PRIME REASON
TO QUIT THEIR JOBS
Millennial employees are desperately
seeking guidance in the workplace. LEAD,
a newly-launched mentoring platform,
will allow young professionals to seek
the mentorships they need. Mentoring
capitalizes on a company's most valuable
resource, its employees, and shows
employees that an organization wants
them to succeed.

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