At the end of that year, the company paid an up-front fee for a perpetual, irrevocable, and worldwide license allowing Rosetta Stone Inc. to use speech recognition technology developed at the University of Colorado. The University of Colorado, Boulder, was ranked 24th and 25th on U.S. News & World Report’s lists of Top Speech–Language Pathology Programs and Top Audiology Programs, respectively. The company also hired some of the technology’s original developers to build on its speech recognition expertise. Rosetta Stone opened an office in Japan in 2007 and in Korea in 2009.