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Month: January 2017

Conduent and 5 tips for creating a more world-ready website

January 18, 2017 by John Yunker

Xerox recently spun off its services unit into a billion-dollar global company known as Conduent. I took a quick look at the Conduent website to see how world-ready this “global” website had become in …

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Categories Business globalization, Companies, Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Translation

Celebrating the “Father of Pinyin”

January 16, 2017 by John Yunker

I was saddened to read that “the father of Pinyin” died this weekend in Beijing (though he did live to be 111 years old). While until now I never knew …

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Categories China, Languages, Translation

Language Connects People

January 10, 2017 by John Yunker

I’ve just printed a new batch of our popular Language Connects People posters and have a few that are not quite perfect that I’m offering at a discounted price. As …

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Categories Country Codes, Domain names, Global navigation, IDN (Intl. Domain Name), Languages, Translation

Lululemon: Global shipping is step one

January 11, 2017January 9, 2017 by John Yunker
lululemon

Lululemon provides an interesting case study of a US-based retailer taking its first steps towards going global. And, like all first steps, this one is rather awkward. To be clear, Lululemon …

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Categories Business globalization, China, Global navigation, Retail globalization, Usability, Web Globalization

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