Lowering the Currency Exchange Barrier
I’ve shopped online from overseas retailers on and off (mostly off) for about two years now. While the larger companies provide currency in US dollars, the smaller companies do not. …
Expand Globally; Hire Locally
The Wall Street Journal features a good article on companies hiring locally as they expand globally. Although the article focuses on China, I suspect that it would apply to many …
Google Payments Stat
The Google Blog says that “over the past four years, Google has billed advertisers in 65 countries more than $11.2 billion in 48 currencies, and made payments to advertising partners …
English as a Second Language. English as a Global Language.
A few years ago I spoke with an executive at a Fortune 500 company who confidently explained why his company wasn’t translating its Web site: “The world will all be …
More on QuikDrop and eBay
Internet Retailer features an article on QuikDrop. The company is going to offer sellers free translation of auction listings in up to eight languages. According to the article, the company …
Wal-Mart: 15 Countries and Counting
Wal-Mart is currently doing business in 15 countries, but that number is going to grow. The company has certainly had some ups and downs overseas — ups in Mexico and …
Pew Survey Finds Internet Usage Increasing Globally
The folks at the Pew Global Attitudes Project have produced a report that further illustrates the dramatic growth in Internet usage around the world — particularly in emerging markets. You …
Globalization Moves Up Microsoft Feature List
I’m pleased to see the beta version of Microsoft Commerce Server 2006 listing “globalization support” as one of their top three features. This is another indication that software developers are …
Lowering the Language Barrier: From eBay to Dekadu
I just came across a press release from an eBay drop-off chain called QuikDrop. The release says that it will be providing translations services for sellers from English into eight …
Another Day Another Webinar…
Every time I say I’m too busy to sit through yet another Webinar, I get a few more emails promoting Webinars that just might be worth sitting through. Here are …
Spanish Harry Potter Coming Soon
The Spanish-language edition of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is due out next week. Now this begs the question: Which Spanish is it being translated into? According to the …
Translations.com Acquires Ex-Transware Team
Milen Epik, former VP of Global Services at Transware, has joined Translations.com as part of a newly named division: Epik Global Solutions. Epik Global Solutions is based in Boulder and …
PayPal Turns 100, 100 Million Users That is
PayPal announced yesterday that it has surpassed 100 million registered users. Not bad for a seven-year-old company. What jumped out at me is that these 100 million users are distributed …
Starbucks Takes On the World
According to this WSJ interview, the Chairman of Starbucks, Howard Schultz, says he plans to significantly increase the number of Starbucks locations in the years ahead to 30,000 (from 11,000 …
Two Barriers to Global Online Sales are Falling
For an online retailer, going global isn’t easy. That’s because retailers have to figure out how to deliver products to consumers around the world cost effectively and how to process …
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