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Month: October 2013

The slowly evolving airline website

February 28, 2017October 30, 2013 by John Yunker

I enjoyed this vision of the future of an airline website (by Fantasy Interactive), particularly this map of fares and destinations: Why haven’t other airlines embraced this vision yet? Probably …

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Categories Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Business globalization, Delta Airlines, KLM, Travel companies

Is Pocari Sweat the next Gatorade?

November 15, 2013October 29, 2013 by John Yunker

It used to be that you had to travel all the way to Japan to be amused by the popular drink Pocari Sweat. The drink has been around since 1980 …

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Categories Japan

From Russian to Arabic to Chinese, new TLDs have arrived

October 23, 2013 by John Yunker

This screen is from a website advertising two new top level domains in Cyrillic. Here are the two domains and what they represent: .САЙТ (Website) .ОНЛАЙН (Online) Two other domains …

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Categories China, Domain names, Google, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Multilingual search, Russia

Tips and Best Practices for Targeting an APAC Audience (Part II)

October 14, 2013 by John Yunker

Here’s my latest post for client Pitney Bowes: Any company with global aspirations cannot afford to ignore the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. It’s a region that includes more than two billion …

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Categories Apple, Business globalization, China, Culture, Google, Japan, Languages, Pitney Bowes, Translation, Twitter, Web Globalization

How the NSA is threatening the future of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others

December 18, 2013October 8, 2013 by John Yunker

When I read government arguments in defense of the NSA, an oft-repeated line was: We’re not targeting Americans. We’re targeting foreigners. Foreigners. I really dislike that word. And I’m sure …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Web Globalization

Tips and Best Practices for Targeting an APAC Audience (Part I)

October 3, 2013 by John Yunker

Here’s my latest post for client Pitney Bowes: Any company with global aspirations cannot afford to ignore the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. It’s a region that includes more than two billion …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Country Codes, Japan, Web Globalization

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