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eBay, despite doing business in more than 20 countries, still earns the bulk of its revenues from US sellers, folks who have been increasingly unhappy about steadily increasing listing fees. When eBay North America president Bill Cobb confirmed recently that …
There was some mighty big news made today — mighty big if you’re a globalization geek — the fifth iteration of Unicode was officially launched. Says the press release: “The Unicode Consortium announces the release of a significant update of …
Lionbridge issued a press release today on the growth of its new Web-based translation memory (TM) application, Logoport. Here are some notable stats: – The volume of words managed by Logoport has more than doubled since its launch two months …
According to Reuters, China is doing its part to help the world learn to speak its language. It just launched the Chinese-instruction Web site: Linese.com. It’s somewhat ironic that the site comes across as poorly translated; bridging the English-Chinese gap, …