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Washington (IPA: //) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state is named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. It is the only U.S. state named after a president.

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Washington was carved out of the western part of Washington Territory and admitted to the Union as the 42nd state in 1889. In 2006, the Census Bureau estimated the state's population at 6,395,798. Residents are called "Washingtonians" (emphasis on the third syllable, pronounced as tone). Washington is sometimes called Washington state to distinguish it from Washington, D.C., the US capital."

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  1. Leading organizations such as the Associated Press, CNN, Factiva, eBay, Forbes.com, NYTimes Digital, Reed Business Information, Sony, washingtonpost.com, Wolters Kluwer, the World Bank and Yahoo! are using unstructured data in their analyses – of customers, market opportunities, internal operations, supply chains – and we enable fast, accurate access to the information they need for decision making.
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  2. Leading organizations such as the Associated Press, CNN, Factiva, eBay, Forbes.com, NYTimes Digital, Reed Business Information, Sony, washingtonpost.com, Wolters Kluwer, the World Bank and Yahoo! are using unstructured data in their analyses - of customers, market opportunities, internal operations, supply chains - and we enable fast, accurate access to the information they need for decision making.
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  3. Over 800 researchers and healthcare experts are convening today at the mHealth Summit in Washington DC to explore ways for the over 6.5 billion people on our planet to have better healthcare. Mobile technologies have the kind of reach that can help.
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    Explore Article Technology News (Jul 21 2010)

    Working to make combat soldiers' lives easier ...o design, build, and launch a rocket using its laptops. The big blast is scheduled for Thursday. At Washington, D.C., conference, delegations from 24 countries promise initiatives that would mean building fewer... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Kentucky   BBN Technologies   Washington

  3. Method of providing information via context searching from a printed substrate

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    ...etwork", Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Informationand Knowledge Management, Washington, D.C., United States, 1993, pp. 67-74, the contents of which is herein incorporated by reference].F... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   California   Washington   Asic

  4. Microsoft Research Illuminates Night Sky and Mars in 3-D with WorldWide Telescope

    Explore Article Microsoft Corporation (Jul 12 2010)

    ... in WorldWide Telescope,” said Chris C. Kemp, chief technology officer for IT at NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. “By providing the Mars dataset to the public in Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope platform, we ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   WorldWide Telescope   Washington   India

  5. Wordfast Anywhere Reaches 5,000 Registered Users

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    WASHINGTON & PARIS----Wordfast LLC: Wordfast Anywhere Reaches 5,000 Registered Users FreeTM.com Registers Reco... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Kristyna Marrero   Washington   Paris

  6. Raytheon gets Darpa extension for translation program

    Explore Article Washington Technology home (Jun 21 2010)

    ...aytheon BBN Technologies, said in the announcement. Raytheon Co., of Waltham, Mass., ranks No. 4 on Washington Technology’s 2010 Top 100 list of the largest federal government prime contractors. About the Autho... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   BBN Technologies   Raytheon BBN Technologies GALE   Darpa

  7. Vocus Launches Social Media Monitoring Offering

    Explore Article mediabistro.com (Jun 8 2010)

    Vocus Launches Social Media Monitoring Offering ...t of Social Media." The conference is running on June 10-11, 2010 at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington, DC. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Washington   Reuters   Dow Jones

  8. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media ...

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    ...Qorvis and General Sentiment are excited about the applications for this new research technology in Washington and beyond." Among the findings in the Media Value Report: -- Senator Mitch McConnell's once-formi... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sprint   Republican and Democratic   Eric Cantor

  9. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media Platforms, New Qorvis/General Sentiment Analysis Finds

    Explore Article redorbit.com (Jun 1 2010)

    ...port Quantifies Political Media Value and Positioning, Finds Reid Closing Gap with McConnell Online WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qorvis and General Sentiment today released a media analysis of ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Republican and Democratic   McConnell Online   Washington

  10. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media ...

    Explore Article 4g Wireless Evolution (Jun 1 2010)

    ...research at Stony Brook University. On a quarterly basis, General Sentiment offers its industry ... WASHINGTON, June 1, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Report Quantifies Political Media Value and Positioning, F... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Senate   Harry Reid   Washington

  11. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media ...

    Explore Article SmartBrief (Jun 1 2010)

    ...port Quantifies Political Media Value and Positioning, Finds Reid Closing Gap with McConnell Online WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qorvis and General Sentiment today released a media analysis of ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   New   General Sentiment   Washington

  12. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media Platforms, New Qorvis/General Sentiment Analysis Finds

    Explore Article SYS-CON Media (Jun 1 2010)

    ...port Quantifies Political Media Value and Positioning, Finds Reid Closing Gap with McConnell Online WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qorvis and General Sentiment today released a media analysis of ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   New   General Sentiment   Washington

  13. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media ...

    Explore Article StreetInsider.com (Jun 1 2010)

    ...port Quantifies Political Media Value and Positioning, Finds Reid Closing Gap with McConnell Online WASHINGTON, June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Qorvis and General Sentiment today released a media analysis of ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sprint   Republican and Democratic   Eric Cantor

  14. Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media Platforms, New Qorvis/General Sentiment Analysis Finds

    Explore Article news.yahoo.com (Jun 1 2010)

    Hill Republicans Lead Democrats on Social Media Platforms, New Qorvis/General Sentiment Analysis Finds ...+ Digg + Fark + Newsvine + Reddit + StumbleUpon + Technorati + Yahoo! Bookmarks * Print 50 mins ago WASHINGTON, June 1 – Report Quantifies Political Media Value and Positioning, Finds Reid Closing Gap with McCo... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Republican and Democratic   Washington   New

  15. Lunch 2.0 pitches: InternMatch, Evri and Xref.us strut their stuff

    Explore Article TechFlash (May 25 2010)

    ...nterns to find one another. At this point, InternMatch features about 1,000 intern opportunities in Washington state. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Washington   InternMatch   Seattle

  16. Lunch 2.0 pitches: InternMatch, Evri and Xref.us strut ...

    Explore Article TechFlash (May 25 2010)

    ...nterns to find one another. At this point, InternMatch features about 1,000 intern opportunities in Washington state. (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Washington   InternMatch   Seattle

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