Global by Design

SDL today released its “World Language League Table” which lists the languages that SDL has been most frequently translating.
The company says it translates more than a billion words each year into more than 150 languages.
Here are then 10 most-popular languages this year:
1. Canadian French
2. Spanish
3. French
4. German
5. Italian
6. Chinese
7. Japanese
8. Dutch
9. English
10. Russian
“We have observed [...]

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First of all, I must admit that I’m a year off on predicting when eBay’s international revenues would surpass domestic revenues. I had predicted 2006. I underestimated how quickly eBay’s domestic revenues would continue to grow — and for the past year they kept growing at a fairly decent pace (though financial analysts might disagree).
But [...]

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Speaking of Russia, according to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Campbell Soup is making a big push into both Russia and China. The company makes most of its money from the US and just a small amount of money overseas, which is not the best place to be if you want to ride the [...]

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In April, after publishing a Web localization report for Brazil, we soon began receiving requests for a similar report on Russia.
So I’m pleased to announce our Russia Localization Report.

The report is designed to be a quick read for both marketing and Web executives. Here are some of the questions we answer:
 

What American and European companies [...]

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Last year, Montenegro became independent from Serbia and now Kosovo is making a strong push in that direction. But Serbia does not want to let go of Kosovo and has Russia on its side. Meanwhile, Kosovo is appealing to the US for a little help.
What does all this mean for Web globalization executives?
For starters, if [...]

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A few weeks ago I wrote about AOL’s new portal for India. According to Reuters, or, Thomson, AOL is only just getting started.

AOL plans to expand into 14 markets over the next two years. And this is in addition to the portals it recently launched for India, Netherlands, and Austria.
AOL is also opening an office [...]

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