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Month: March 2016

Say hello to the first .google domain

March 29, 2016 by John Yunker

Google announced the launch of domains.google. today, not a new service but a newly “domained” service. I think it’s fitting that the first public use of .google is applied to …

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Categories Google, gTLDs

Chinese marathoners suffer from lack of translation

March 27, 2016 by John Yunker

According to People’s Daily, a number of runners in a South China marathon suffered from more than simply lack of hydration. Try lack of translation. The bar of soap shown above was …

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Categories China, Translation

Intel: The best global enterprise technology website of 2016

March 17, 2016 by John Yunker

For the 2016 Web Globalization Report Card, we studied 11 enterprise technology websites: Autodesk Cisco Systems EMC IBM Huawei Intel Oracle SAP Texas Instruments Xerox VMware With support for 23 languages, Intel …

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Categories Business globalization, Cisco Systems, Country Codes, Intel, Machine Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Chinese drawing even with English on global websites

March 7, 2016 by John Yunker

Over the past decade Simplified Chinese has grown to become one of the most popular languages on global websites, second only to English. According to the Web Globalization Report Card, …

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Categories China, India, Languages, Russia, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

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