The Wall Street Journal features a good article on companies hiring locally as they expand globally. Although the article focuses on China, I suspect that it would apply to many emerging markets these days. Says the article: According to Taihe …
The Google Blog says that “over the past four years, Google has billed advertisers in 65 countries more than $11.2 billion in 48 currencies, and made payments to advertising partners of more than $3.9 billion. ” While the margins are …
A few years ago I spoke with an executive at a Fortune 500 company who confidently explained why his company wasn’t translating its Web site: “The world will all be speaking English soon enough,” he told me. His Web site …
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Internet Retailer features an article on QuikDrop. The company is going to offer sellers free translation of auction listings in up to eight languages. According to the article, the company is does “about 15,000 auctions a week” with 40% of …
Wal-Mart is currently doing business in 15 countries, but that number is going to grow. The company has certainly had some ups and downs overseas — ups in Mexico and downs most everywhere else. Still no ecommerce site yet for …
The folks at the Pew Global Attitudes Project have produced a report that further illustrates the dramatic growth in Internet usage around the world — particularly in emerging markets. You can download a copy of the report here According to …
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I’m pleased to see the beta version of Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 listing “globalization support” as one of their top three features. This is another indication that software developers are responding to customer demand for products that support global ecommerce …
I just came across a press release from an eBay drop-off chain called QuikDrop. The release says that it will be providing translations services for sellers from English into eight languages, beginning with Spanish and French (I’m trying to learn …
Every time I say I’m too busy to sit through yet another Webinar, I get a few more emails promoting Webinars that just might be worth sitting through. Here are two that caught my eye — and might be worth …
The Spanish-language edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is due out next week. Now this begs the question: Which Spanish is it being translated into? According to the press release: As with the five preceding Potter books, the …