Adventures in web globalization, since 2002
Google continues to go where no other multinational has gone before, adding the following lanugage interfaces: – Cambodian – Corsican – Kazakh – Lingala – Pashto – Quechua – Shona – Tajik – Tatar – Tonga – Yoruba That brings …
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 statistical MT (SMT) software, early indications are that Google is …
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 will be boosting non-US investments signficantly, most heavily within China …
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 see a company promoting the success and longevity of its …
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 Japan (the first market where Yahoo! out-eBayed eBay). And there …
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,’ and its mission is to provide well designed, useful products …
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 for 39 percent of Dell’s total for the quarter and …
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 20 and 59 in six cities) and found opportunities for …
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 Asia as a whole. Yahoo! dominates the auction market in …
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 thinking right about now. They sure must be sick and …
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 cost roughly ¥150 each. So now that Japan is live, …
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 reorg), they have done well in growing existing accounts and …
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 in the way of details. I’m glad to see the …
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 Hispanics are born and grow up in this country.” Key …
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 in all; the first edition included 11 countries). Australia debuts …