eBay Tries to Expand Globally Without Offending Locally
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. …
Month: July 2006
Unicode Turns 5.0 Today
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 …
Lionbridge Says Freeway Off to Strong Start
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 …
Chinese as a Second Language (Cont.)
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 …