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How Nike localizes “football”

September 10, 2012 by John Yunker

In the US, football season has officially begun (there goes my weekends). But outside of the US, football season means something entirely different. So how does a global sporting goods …

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Categories Global navigation, Retail globalization, Web Globalization

Entering the Nike “language tunnel”

August 14, 2012 by John Yunker

Nike has a brand new website and they’ve made a few navigational changes along the way. For starters, it appears that Nike is now using geolocation to detect the location …

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Categories Global navigation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Web globalization in a post-PC world

April 10, 2013February 6, 2012 by John Yunker
PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones

The 2012 Web Globalization Report Card is my first attempt at analyzing web globalization in a post-PC world. By post-PC world, I’m referring to  a world in which the website adapts not …

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Categories Apple, Global navigation, iPad, iPhone, Retail globalization, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Navigating the multilingual web: The Art of the Global Gateway

September 9, 2010 by John Yunker

In 1999, I first used the term “global gateway.” At the time, I was referring to a company’s “select language” pull-down menu. Needless to say, the term stuck. But it has …

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Categories Global navigation

Nike -> Brike

May 5, 2010 by John Yunker

From today’s Wall Street Journal: Nike Inc. aims to boost annual revenues more than 40% to $27 billion over the next five years by adding new stores and rapidly expanding …

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Categories Business globalization
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