/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Adventures in Web globalization and all that it entails en-us jyunker@bytelevel.com 2006-10-26T10:41:13-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/10/26/the_transcultural_ceo.php Quote from the dean of INSEAD, Frank Brown: "The world's next generation of leaders must have transcultural skills. They need to have an appreciation and understanding of cultures, and know, for instance, how to relate and behave when they walk... 68105@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-10-26T10:41:13-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/09/26/news_localization_sometimes_the_truth_hurts.php Thanks to fellow Mizzou J-school graduate Matt Hilburn for pointing this out. If you visit the home page of Newsweek.com, you'll see the front pages of this week's issue from around the world, as shown here... Outside the US, the... 66174@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-09-26T10:20:43-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/08/27/quechua_has_friends_in_high_places.php Quechua is the language of the Incan Empire and is spoken by roughly 10 million people throughout South America, the majority of whom live in Peru and Bolivia. Recent developments suggest that this “minority” language is not going gently into... 64452@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Software Localization 2006-08-27T18:02:38-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/08/25/the_world_population_think_inside_the_box.php Bettina Speckman has created a rectangular map of the world's poputation, in which the size of the rectangle is relative to the size of a given country's population. It really puts into perspective how big China and India are relative... 64369@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-08-25T09:54:17-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/07/25/ebay_tries_to_expand_globally_without_offending_locally.php eBay, despite doing business in more than 20 countries, still earns the bulk of its revenues from US sellers, folks who have been increasingly unhappy about steadily increasing listing fees. When eBay North America president Bill Cobb confirmed recently that... 62437@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Web Globalization 2006-07-25T15:23:47-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/06/23/google_cashes_out_of_baidu.php Baidu is the "Google" of China with 51% of the market (according to CNNIC). Awhile back, Google bought a small chunk of the company, before it went public, presumably with the intention of using Baidu as its point of entry... 60662@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-06-23T08:25:04-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/06/20/mcdonalds_in_china_elle_in_the_middle_east.php The Wall Street Journal features two articles on business globalization and localization -- from McDonald's building drive-thrus in China to Elle publishiing a Middle East edition. For Elle, the challenge is complex because there is no one "Middle East" market... 60590@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-06-20T07:43:10-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/04/10/the_eu_domain_is_spawning_edu_hacks.php I should have seen this one coming. According to Bret Fausett's blog, the .eu domain is being registered by individuals hoping to capitalize on Web users who leave off the "d" when typing in their favorite college URL. For example,... 55283@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-04-10T14:13:01-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/04/07/the_eu_land_rush_has_begun.php I'm not surprised to see the feeding frenzy over .eu. This article reports that more than half a million domains were registered within the first hour of sales. According to the article, "EU Commissioner Viviane Reding said the Commission hopes... 55112@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Web Globalization 2006-04-07T10:55:11-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/03/24/will_the_economist_become_too_american.php The Economist has just made its US editor John Micklethwait the new editor-in-chief. According to this NYT article the promotion will result in greater coverage of the US market... The Economist has bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San... 54072@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-03-24T08:07:32-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/02/27/expand_globally_hire_locally.php 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 emerging markets these days. Says the article: According to Taihe... 49437@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-02-27T15:27:04-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/02/25/google_payments_stat.php 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 of more than $3.9 billion. " While the margins are... 49308@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-02-25T07:37:33-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/02/24/english_as_a_second_language_english_as_a_global_language.php 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 speaking English soon enough," he told me. His Web site... 49258@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Web Globalization 2006-02-24T07:18:47-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/02/22/walmart_15_countries_and_counting.php 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 downs most everywhere else. Still no ecommerce site yet for... 49106@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-02-22T07:16:58-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/02/20/lowering_the_language_barrier_from_ebay_to_dekadu.php 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 languages, beginning with Spanish and French (I'm trying to learn... 48962@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2006-02-20T08:56:42-08:00