iTunes Japan in 2005
According to News.com, Apple is launching iTunes for Japan in March 2005. As I reported a few weeks agoiTunes is already localized for 12 European markets. Japan, however, will not …
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Craigslist Going Global (Sorta)
Craigslist has been replicating itself across every major US city for the past few years, enjoying tremendous success along the way. Naturally, it only makes sense that the company start …
Google Taking Blogs Global
Google appears to be doing for blogs what it did for search engines. According to this InfoWorld article, Blogger, which is owned by Google, is going to be localized for …
Debunking Local Myths In Asia
According to this New York Times article Asians have one more thing in common with Americans — love for the ol’ credit card. The consumer credit business is booming in …
eBay Goes Dutch
According to CNET, eBay is purchasing Markplace.nl for $290 million in cash. Founded in 1999, Marktplaats.nl averages roughly a million listings. This purchase gives eBay an instant presence in the …
Engrish, The Book
You can find a Web site devoted to pretty much anything on the Internet. The Web site Enrgish.com is devoted to ” humorous English mistakes that appear in Japanese advertising …
Xbox Globalization
Here is an interesting Q&A with Peter Moore, global marketing chief of Microsoft’s Xbox. They have offered a subscription-based, online Xbox service for a couple years now and we find …
All Lucky Numbers Are Local
Every culture has lucky and unlucky numbers. In the US, you’ll be hard-pressed to find the 13th floor in New York City. According to CNN, someone in China paid $215,000 …
Welsh Translation On The Fly
The BBC has launched a new feature for Welsh speakers who aren’t too fluent in English. The Web application is called Vocab. Here’s an article excerpt: Vocab lets users hold …
SDL’s China Push
SDL announced that it has released a Chinese version of its translation memory tool SDLX. The company claims that this is the “first time a major translation technology player has …
Apple iTunes Globalization, Continued
About a month ago I wrote about how iTunes had currently been localized for three markets. My how time flies. The last I checked the iTunes Music Store now supports …
I’ve Never Seen This Global Gateway Before…
Martin Duerst pointed out a global gateway that has to be a first of its kind, shown below: What isn’t obvious in the photo is that these flags are actually …
Business Beyond Time Zones
Fast Company features a short article on the challenges of managing global teams. This is a real challenge that global Web teams face. Conference calls must be shuffled constantly to …
Language Weaver Scores More CIA Cash
Language Weaver, a San Diego-based developer of machine translation software, scored additional funding from In-Q-Tel, the VC arm of the CIA (yes, even the CIA likes to gamble). It appears …
Internet Users by Country, According to Nielsen
Nielsen/Netratings released its latest count of Internet users by country. Keep in mind that some of the most booming markets are left off this chart, such as China, India and …