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In the recent Globalization Insider newsletter, there is an excellent article by Chuck Wrobel about managing names across different scripts. This is a real challenge for multinational organizations, and it …
In the recent Globalization Insider newsletter, there is an excellent article by Chuck Wrobel about managing names across different scripts. This is a real challenge for multinational organizations, and it …
According to this interesting Dow Jones article, Coke is recently launched a new beverage in Argentina that takes advantage of the local fondness for the yerba mate plant. Called Nativa, …
It is becoming much more common for companies to issue press releases after adding another language (or locale) to their Web sites. For example, Swagelok, a maker of “fluid system …
AT&T boldly announced today that it had launched a seven-language Web site at www.att.com/global. I’ll give AT&T and ‘A’ for effort and a ‘D-‘ for execution. The major problems have …
A.T. Kearney, Inc. and Foreign Policy magazine recently released their list of the top 20 most global countries. The survey takes a number of factors into account, such as politics, …
HIP Health Plan of New York today announced that it has added a fourth language, Korean, to its Web site: www.hipusa.com. Now the press release isn’t entirely honest. It says …
According to this article, the government is in need ofa few (or few hundred) translators of Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto. Here’s an excerpt: The government is looking for linguists who …
To succeed in software these days, you need really tight alliances and Idiom’s “go it alone” approach over the years has cost it dearly. The latest warning flag came in …
The San Antonio Express-News has an article on the growing number of bilingual (English and Spanish) ads. Here’s an excerpt: There are “more Latinos in the United States than there …
This very interesting article is not about China but about the EU Parliament, and how it intends to manage its ever-increasing number of languages. As the EU expands, so does …
For anyone who says that globalization is a one-sided game in which American is always the winner, I submit Kola Real. Kola Real, known formally as Industrias Ananos, is giving …
In a recent press release, ICANN, the organization in charge of the chaos that is our domain name registration system, has made multilingual domain names a priority (again). Here’s what …