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The Great Global Safety Net

October 22, 2002 by John Yunker

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 …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

Languages Living Together

October 19, 2002 by John Yunker

After reading about languages doing battle in Romania, it’s nice to see that languages can coexist in Lebanon: Lebanon, a former French mandate country, is a good illustration of how …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

No more “hot dogs” in Romania?

October 19, 2002 by John Yunker

It’s not official yet, but there’s an interesting law in the works in Romania: It still awaits legal fine-tuning and presidential approval, but as it stands now, it dictates that …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

Is it Feta or is it Fake?

October 17, 2002 by John Yunker

I knew there were strict rules about what constituted actual “champagne” but wasn’t aware there were also rules for feta. This from the EU: The label “feta” can only be …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

Japanese Culture 101

October 16, 2002 by John Yunker

The students become the teachers with this wonderful site.

Categories Culture, Web Globalization

Democracy, Translated

October 14, 2002 by John Yunker

According to this NY Times story, Vietnam is requiring that anyone who wants to launch a Web site get government permission first. Here’s the story. What jumped out at me …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

Hello Bonjour Ciao Hola

October 14, 2002 by John Yunker

If you’ve used the free machine translation site Babelfish, you know that it can be a little time consuming to translate one phrase into multiple languages. Carl Tashian has created …

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Categories Web Globalization

A Brand By Any Other Name

October 11, 2002 by John Yunker

A great interview with Andy Chuang of Goodcharacters.com in Fresno, California. His company specializes in Chinese naming and linguistic evaluation. The interview was conducted by Steve Rivkin; here’s an excerpt: …

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Categories Brazil, Business globalization, China, Web Globalization

Language is Power; Power is Language

October 9, 2002 by John Yunker

According to a Sept. 28th article in the Economist, tensions between French and Dutch speakers in Belgium has been flaring up. Apparently, in the region around Brussels, French-speaking Walloons and …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

Globalization of Beauty

October 4, 2002 by John Yunker

In this NY Times article, thin is becoming beautiful in a country where just the opposite had been the case. Another reason to hate globalization, unless of course, you’re thin.

Categories Culture, Web Globalization

Of Flags and Gateways

October 4, 2002 by John Yunker

When designing a global gateway – you generally want to avoid flags. After all, what flag would you use to represent Spanish? And what language would the flag for Switzerland …

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Categories Web Globalization

Emerging Markets and Emerging Web Sites

September 30, 2002 by John Yunker

The computer industry is in a slump. People aren’t upgrading their computers every 18 months and companies like Dell and Intel are rightly worried. Yet there is still hope to …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

Flags in Search of Countries

September 30, 2002 by John Yunker

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) “UNPO is an international organisation created by nations and peoples around the world, who are not represented as such in the world´s principal international …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization

Accepting payment accross borders

September 27, 2002 by John Yunker

Accepting payments in other currencies is a never-ending headache for companies, particularly small businesses. And although credit cards provide a nice alternative, many Europeans have yet to embrace them. So …

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Categories Business globalization, Web Globalization

Vote, vota, bumoto…

September 25, 2002 by John Yunker

“Los Angeles County is urging its citizens to vote, vota, bumoto or hay bo phieu. In fact, residents there will have seven languages to choose from when they cast their …

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Categories Culture, Web Globalization
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