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 cost roughly ¥150 each. So now that Japan is live, …
Month: August 2005
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 reorg), they have done well in growing existing accounts and …
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 in the way of details. I’m glad to see the …
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 Hispanics are born and grow up in this country.” Key …
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 in all; the first edition included 11 countries). Australia debuts …
Think Globally; Develop Locally
That’s what Intel plans to do as it opens up design centers in India, China, Brazil, and Egypt, according to CNET News. Says the article, “the so-called definition centers will examine local conditions and economies and then try to design …