I was given a review copy of No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends, which I read over the weekend. The authors are Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel — all directors at the McKinsey Global …
I read today about the Nigerian startup Hotels.ng and my first thought was why Hotels.com didn’t already own the Nigerian country code. After all, Hotels.com owns country codes for France and Italy and Japan, among others. But was apparently late to registering …
I want to focus on App Annie because it appears the company is planning to significantly expand its global reach — and therefore needs a gateway suited to task. Currently, App Annie supports five languages. But you might not know …
Google Translate is the world’s most popular machine translation tool. And, despite predictions by many experts in the translation industry, the quality of Google Translate has improved nicely over the past decade. Not so good that professional translators are in any …
Perhaps it’s human nature (or perhaps just savvy marketing) to think up new and unique ways of organizing our world. BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) is one popular grouping. And did you know about MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey)? Or MIST (Mexico, …
Greece has received string approval for an IDN, shown below in red: This brings to 35 the number countries with approved IDNs — and an impressive range of scripts, shown here: I’ve just updated the IDN map of the world. If you’d like to …
Translators Without Borders is an amazing organization of volunteer translators using their skills to make the world a better place. One project worth noting is an ambitious effort to translate valuable Wikipedia articles into 100 languages: The 100 x 100 Wikipedia …