East Meets West
Here are some entertaining tidbits from the excellent Christian Science Monitor story on the strange things that happen with Western business meets Eastern culture. –> Self-tanners are not the popular …
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Random House Setting Up House in India
According to this article Random House is going to set up a publishing operation in India. “It’s time a publishing house like Random has a presence in India. It will …
Starwood Checks In To China
Starwood Hotels & Resorts announced that the first Four Points by Sheraton hotel has opened in China. This brings to 30 the number of properties Starwood owns and/or manages in …
Lenovo Outsources Management And Celebrates Birthdays
Interesting article in the NYTimes on Lenovo outsourcing management to the folks at IBM (despite the fact that the division lost a few billion dollars in recent years. The beginning …
The World’s Number One Starbucks Fan
Thanks to the Internet, I recently stumbled upon Starbucks’ number one fan. His name is Winter and he has visited more than 4,500 Starbucks in five countries. His goal is …
Speaking Hinglish
The International Herald Tribune reports that English and Hindi have, for a variety of reasons, merged into a sort of lingua franca in a country with more than a dozen …
Chevy, Meet Chery
According to the WSJ, the US will see Chinese-made automobiles by 2007. And we’re not talking about Hondas or Dodges made in China, we’re talking about a Chinese car company …
Web Globalization in Three Basic Steps
I was recently interviewed by the folks at Marketing Sherpa on the basics of Web globalization. The article came out today and is available for free here until January 13th. …
US Population at 295 Million
According to the US Census Bureau, the US will finish 2004 with a population of 295 million, up roughly 3 million over the year before. Thanks to international migration, the …
Predicting 2005: From Amazon to Apple
As the end of 2004 draws near, I feel compelled to toss in a few predictions for the year ahead… Web Globalization Goes Mainstream Based on surveys Ive conducted, discussions …
Bowne Global Solutions and Salesforce.com
Bowne Global Solutions, one of the “big 3” in the content globalization industry, uses Salesforce.com to manage its global sales team. I have found over the past two years that …
Los Increibles
Cool News reports on some fairly sophisticated movie localization at Disney. The studio recently dubbed its hit movie The Incredibles for Argentina using well-known local personalities. This extra Argentine effort …
When Is iTunes Not iTunes?
When a British company owns the rights to http://itunes.co.uk/ and won’t sell it to Apple. Apple wants that domain name real badly and is using all legal means it its …
China Blocks Nike’s Shot
First, Nike caused a stir at bus shelters in Singapore. Then it moved onto Chinese airwaves; this time, the authorities were not so amused. According to this AP article, the …
Lenovo’s Global Aspirations
The news that Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo is in talks to purchase IBMs computer business is of great concern to Dell and other computer manufacturers, but it is also a …