Google Adds More Languages: 116 and Counting…
Google continues to go where no other multinational has gone before, adding the following lanugage interfaces: – Cambodian – Corsican – Kazakh – Lingala – Pashto – Quechua – Shona …
Month: August 2005
Google Wins Machine Translation Showdown
Earlier this month I wrote an article in Global By Design on Google’s ambitious machine translation (MT) plans. While Google is still very much in pre-beta stage with its home-brewed …
Looking for VC Cash? Go Global
According to the Deloitte and NVCA 2005 Global Venture Capital Survey, VCs are increasingly looking outside their borders when making investments. What this non-intuitive exhibit shows is that US VCs …
United.ca Celebrates 5 Years
The Canadian Web site for United Airlines (www.united.ca) is celebrating its 5-year anniversary with a special giveaway. As Web globalization goes, five years is a long time. I’m glad to …
More on Yahoo!, Alibaba, eBay China…
The media fallout of the billion-dollar Yahoo! Alibaba deal is still rolling in. There’s a good piece in the WSJ about how eBay is trying to avoid a repeat of …
Muji: The Un-Brand
Business Week features an article about the “secret” brand that is Muji. According to the article, “Muji is short for mujirushi ryohin, which translates roughly to ‘no label, quality goods,’ …
Dell Reports Strong Global Growth
Dell didn’t report the revenues that analysts were hoping for but it certainly posted solid non-US revenues. According to its earnings release today… Revenue from outside the United States accounted …
Meet the Chuppies
They’re young, they’re affluent, and they want American goods. Meet the Chuppiers: young, urban, Chinese consumers. UPR commissioned a survey of selected Chuppies (1,140 Chinese consumers between the ages of …
eBay vs. Yahoo! in Asia
If Yahoo! acquires a stake in China’s B-B ecommerce portal Alibaba, the stage will be set for a very heated battle between Yahoo! and eBay for China in particular and …
Can Baidu Out-Google Google?
As the stock offering for Chinese search engine Baidu quadrupled on its first day of trading on the NASDAQ, I couldn’t help but wonder what the folks at Google are …
And iTunes Japan Makes 20
The long-awaited iTunes Japan site is up and running.. Japan is the 20th country store now available. Plenty of room left to grow. The site offers 1 million songs which …
Notes on Lionbridge Earnings Call
Here are notes from today’s Q2 earnings call… -> A strong quarter: $41.3 million. Margins are up. -> Even though their revenues from HP are down (due largely to HP’s …
Welocalize, Growing Quickly, Announces Revenues For First Time
Globalization services vendor Welocalize has publicly announced, for the first time, its revenues. For years the company has blasted out glowing press releases about record quarters of growth with little …
US Spanish Speakers to Surpass 40 Million by 2025
A new study by the Roslow Research Group on behalf of Hispanic U.S.A. “challenges the assumption that the use of Spanish will decrease in coming years as succeeding generations of …
Australia is “Strongest Nation Brand”; US is Slipping
The second installment of the Anholt-GMI Nation Brands Index is out and the rankings have changed significantly, largely due to the fact that the survey now includes more countries (25 …