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Expedia just reported quarterly numbers and the contrast between domestic growth and international growth is strartling: 1% US growth vs. 25% international growth for Q4. Granted, international travel is booming these days. But had Expedia not invested in Web globalization …
A reader in Shanghia informed me that he was unable to visit globalbydesign.com. A second reader has found this to be the case as well. So it’s looking very much like Global by Design has been designated by the powers …
Lionbridge issued a press release today that says the company’s new translation management platform, Freeway/Logoport, was the fastest-growing translation management tool in 2006. Freeway is the Web-based front-end of the application and Logoport is the translation memory engine (I’m still …
The February issue of Global by Design is now out and the title story looks at all the ways companies measure the return on investment of their translations, or “ROT.” Needless to say, the better execs get at demonstrating ROT, …
By now, most of the major US airlines offer Spanish-languange content on their Web sites But only a few offer fully localized flight reservation systems, which is where the money is. A few years ago, Southwest Airlines was the first …