In a draft accord released early on Friday, the EU endorsed a recommendation by its executive arm, the Euroepan Commission, that the 10 candidate countries “fulfill the political criteria and will be able to fulfill the economic criteria and to …
“With more than 42.5 million people of Hispanic descent in the United States, representing nearly 15 percent of the entire population, it’s important for us to provide this valuable audience with the choice of receiving BellSouth’s high-quality services either in …
According to this recent NY Times article, the State Department is launching an ad campaign to promote “American values” to the Muslim world: Special efforts will be made to give audiences here in Indonesia, elsewhere in Asia and in the …
According to a new report by Allied Business, the translation industry is showin no signs of slowing down. They predict translation revenues will reach $9.5 billion annually by year-end 2002: Web Site localization the business of translating Web Sites …
Registering top-level domain names can be a little confusing. There are country-code domain names (TLDs), like .de for Germany and .jp for Japan, and then there are the generic TLDs, like .com and .net. But be warned that there are …
When companies first go global, they tend to select the richest foreign markets. After all, if you want to make money abroad, you follow the money abroad. Yet this strategy overlooks the bulk of the world’s population. And it also …
“Language is among the top three barriers to adequate health care, said Fred Hobby, director of the project and chief diversity officer at GHS. So with a $1 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, four area hospitals hope …
Wal-Mart did $191 billion in revenues last year. By 2011, analysts expect it to hit $450 billion. It has more than 4,600 stores open around the world right now; it is already the largest employer in many states – with …
More than 10% of American residents now speak only Spanish at home, up from 7.5% in 1990, according Bill Frey, a senior fellow in demography at the Milken Institute. He writes: “Toy manufacturs, for example, upped their production of bilingual …
UPS is like a lot of American multinationals – its international business is not the core source of revenues, but is an increasingly vital source of revenues. This week, UPS released its quarterly figures: we find that while its U.S. …