VC Michael Moe writes about China and offers a heaping helping of China stats. Here are a few to ponder… China has an official 1.3 billion people—that’s 1/5th of all people on the planet. Unofficially, it has 1.5 billion people—the …
The NY Times has a great article about the making of Disneyland Hong Kong It looks like Disney learned some painful but important lessons about the importance of localization from the Euro Disney disaster. Writes Laura Holson… When Disney opened …
According to Deloitte’s 2005 report on the retail industry, the “need to go global” is one of the top 10 issues facing retailers. Here are two interesting excerpts… Globalization gained further ground in 2003. Currently, these 250 retailers sell in …
I’ve been writing so many blogs about China over the past few months that today I went ahead and created a new “China” category. It’s impossible to keep up on all the China-related business globalization news, but here are a …
Emerging markets are driving the Web globalization revolution. Investment bankers use an acronym that is going to have a major impact on the future of the globalization industry: BRIC. BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the four countries …
Sun says that it localize its StarOffice software suite into five additional languages over the next year, which will include Russian, Polish and Dutch. The software is currently available in 11 languages. StarOffice costs a great deal less than Microsoft’s …
The Journal writes about Hollywood’s strategy to (finally) begin discounting DVDs in China in an effort to be more competitive with the pirated DVDs. The discounted DVDs will still cost roughly three times what the pirated versions cost, but at …
China has nearly 100 million Internet users, so it’s only natural that the country want a stake in how the Internet is managed. Chinese Ambassador Sha Zukang recently said that China opposes the “monopolization” of the Internet by one state, …
The Le Merdien hotel chain plans to double the number of properties in India from 10 to 20 over the next four years. According to the press release, all Le Meridien hotels in India are profitable with average occupancy last …
Chris Anderson is traveling through India and commenting on globalization along the way…