China and Japan: So Close But Yet So Far
The Pew Global Attitudes Project recently conducted a survey of citizens of Japan, China, Pakistan, and India. Conclusion: These people don’t like each other all that much. Between contested territories, …
Web Globalization
Transware Ambassador
Yesterday Transware announced its latest version of its globalization CMS software application: Ambassador 6.8. According to the release, the software “allows customers of Transware’s translation services to automate the ordering, …
Baidu vs. Google: Round Two
Google vs. Baidu is the heavyweight battle of the Chinese Internet market. And a lot of media coverage is being devoted to analyzing this fight. Based on what’s out there …
Just How Literal Do You Want That Translation?
Guest Article: By Dr. Mark Ritter McElroy Translation Company From time to time translation agencies receive requests for a “literal”translation. This seemingly inoffensive adjective is much like the term “obscene.” …
Barnes & Noble Going Global? Not So Fast.
Barnes & Noble operates 850 book stores across the United States (including B Dalton), selling more than 450 million books a year. But the company has not strayed outside the …
Beyoncé Beyond Borders
Global superstars, like global companies, are realizing that it’s not enough to launch an English-only Web site. If you want to truly speak to the world you need a multilingual …
The World According to Wikipedia
Note: This post is excerpted from the September issue of the Global By Design newsletter. Earlier this year, we published the third edition of The Web Globalization Report Card, our …
World Wide School District
When I first saw this Web site I couldn’t believe it — a school district Web site that supports 25 languages — that’s right, 25 — including Russian, Somalian, Chinese, …
Merrill Brink: How Not to Get Leads
If there’s one thing a translation agency president dreams about at night, odds are pretty good that it’s leads, as in sales leads. A great way to generate sales leads …
SDL On Track to be a $200 Million Company in 2007
SDL announced interim financials today, showing 34% growth over 2005 and bringing the company in at roughly US$170 million this year. At this rate, the company stands to break the …
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By guest author: Marc Garnaut Spark Media Lab I’ve been sharing my morning coffee for the past year or two with the “yee-ha”s of corporate wagons circling and the “forward-ho”cries …
SDL Promotes Marketing to the C-Level
Lionbridge has its Chief Marketing Officer, Kevin Bolen, and now rival SDL has a CMO too, in the name of Chris Boorman. According to the press release, “Boorman comes to …
Dell Loses Trademark Suit in China
According to The Beijing News, via Rich Kuslan’s blog, Dell lost a suit against a research institute over the fact that its name sounds too much like Dell’s transliterated name. …
Disney to Redesign Web Site Next Year
So said Disney president Bob Iger in his earnings call last month. Here’s the text… “In fiscal 2007, we will launch a wholly redesigned Disney.com that will capitalize on the …