/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Adventures in Web globalization and all that it entails en-us jyunker@bytelevel.com 2006-09-22T08:01:57-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/09/22/china_and_japan_so_close_but_yet_so_far.php 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, painful histories, and the simple fact that neighbors often make... 65963@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-09-22T08:01:57-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/baidu_vs_google_round_two.php 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 now, Baidu has won round one. The question now is... 65700@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-09-18T09:43:12-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/08/30/_vs_dell_loses_trademark_suit_in_china.php 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. Transliterated? If this term is new to you, it is... 64616@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-08-30T09:11:31-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/08/25/marketing_to_chuppies.php UPS recently hired a Chinese market research firm to survey 1,200 “Chuppies” – Chinese, urban, middle-class consumers. What they found is good news for American companies looking to expand into this market. Particularly good news is that this group of... 64368@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-08-25T09:50:00-08:00 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/2006/07/11/chinese_as_a_second_language.php According to Reuters, China is doing its part to help the world learn to speak its language. It just launched the Chinese-instruction Web site: Linese.com. It's somewhat ironic that the site comes across as poorly translated; bridging the English-Chinese gap,... 61545@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-07-11T08:31:21-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/04/06/china_expansion_ups_and_accor.php UPS continues to invest heavily in China, announcing today that it was beginning flights from Germany to Shanghai and increasing the number of flights from the US to China. UPS serves more than 300 cities in China and last year... 55002@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-04-06T06:28:12-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2006/03/14/chinas_translation_demand_curve.php The Chinese blog Better Localization has an interesting story about a recent Chinese TV program that took a few multinationals to task (KLM and IKEA) for not providing Chinese-language documentation. Here's an excerpt (with edits for clarity): ...a company can... 53142@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2006-03-14T07:56:21-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/12/20/chinese_as_a_second_language.php According to my local paper, Chinese language instruction is hot: "I tell you, this Chinese fever is on again," Wong-Avery said. "Everyone knows it will be one of the most used languages in the world." Even China is having trouble... 44504@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2005-12-20T16:17:33-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/12/20/is_ebay_losing_china.php According to Shanghai Daily eBay is dropping its fee for online stores, matching competitor Taobao.com's free offering. Says the article: Now why would eBay China do this? According to the article, eBay China is hosting just 10,000 cyber stores... 44463@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2005-12-20T08:23:11-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/12/19/china_were_number_four.php According to Business Week, China might soon revise GDP upwards by a whopping 20%. Says the article: That would make China the world's fourth-largest economy, suddenly overtaking Italy, France, and Britain. And it would peg the mainland's output at 18%... 43388@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2005-12-19T13:05:27-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/12/06/chinas_evolving_cell_phone_culture.php This is a great Wall Street Journal article on China's culture and how it relates to technology -- primarily voice mail. An excerpt: Many Chinese who have worked for inefficient, state-owned companies may not comprehend the idea of being obligated... 39660@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2005-12-06T11:18:34-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/11/18/the_other_w_comes_to_china.php While President Bush is about to enter China, another W is also set to enter the Chinese market -- the hotel W. According to this article, the W Shanghai - Pudong will debut in 2008. And the W will have... 38164@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2005-11-18T11:03:40-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/09/02/baidu_beating_google_in_china.php The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) just published a survey of the Chinese search engine market. Baidu comes out on top in market share. But Google is more popular among high-end users. And Baidu relies heavily on MP3 search... 13136@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ China 2005-09-02T00:09:39-08:00 http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/2005/08/19/looking_for_vc_cash_go_global.php According to the Deloitte and NVCA 2005 Global Venture Capital Survey, VCs are increasingly looking outside their borders when making investments. What this non-intuitive exhibit shows is that US VCs will be boosting non-US investments signficantly, most heavily within China... 13132@/home/corante/public_html/goingglobal/ Business Globalization 2005-08-19T12:36:15-08:00