Business on HuffingtonPost.com:
HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region has lost more of its jobs to international competition than just about anywhere else in the nation, according to federal trade-assistance (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
Last night I attended the Carnegie Council-sponsored Japan Society panel "Copenhagen & Beyond" on the upcoming climate change negotiations in December with experts Masayoshi Arai (METI), Elliot Diringer (Pew Center), Chinese Ambassador to the UN Zhenmin Liu, and Takao Shibata (the former chairman of the Kyoto Protocol worki (Read More)
Globalization Blog:
Sixth in a series of interviews with sponsors of Gilbane’s 2009 study on Multilingual Product Content: Transforming Traditional Practices into Global Content Value Chains. We spoke with Kent Taylor, VP - Americas for acrolinx, a leader in quality assurance tools for professional information developers, The acrolinx informat (Read More)
ABC News:
Macy's posts smaller 3rd-quarter loss as stores benefits from inventory controls, localization
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washingtonpost.com - Print Edition:
HICKORY, N.C. -- The expansion of global trade may enrich the United States, as economists say, but it has overwhelmed this manufacturing area beside the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Fairer Globalization:
Robert Dujarric writes in the Christian Science Monitor that the Obama administration should appeal to patriotism to get Americans motivated to kick the oil addiction. Bush tried this approach back in 2006, but his weak solution was to fund more research (a form of delay) and to prioritize ethanol (which often equates to oi (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
I attended a business leaders luncheon last week organized by the United Nations Association around the idea of Greening the Developing World: Tech's Leading Role (Siemens and TIME co-sponsored). Among the themes one stood out: "Experiment on us!" This came from Minister Modest Mero of Tanzania. He indicated that Africa is (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
Among all the talk about soft power and smart power something big and obvious has been missing: wind power. By not being a global leader on climate change over the past decade America has blown a major opportunity to engage in Green Diplomacy—the strategic use of clean energy projects to boost development and security in po (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
My take in Newsweek on Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama's speech in front of the Diet this week and his notion of yuai (fraternity). Here is an excerpt:...Hatoyama's vision would go far beyond that of his predecessors, who have been trying for decades to coin a catchphrase that would somehow provide a signpost for understan (Read More)
Official Google Blog:
Today, we've added 285 new languages to Google Translator Toolkit, bringing the total number of languages supported by this product to 345 — and making it possible to translate between 10,664 language pairs. Google Translator Toolkit is a language translation service for professional and amateur translators that builds on G (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
Today, I visited Miranda Magagnini, Co-CEO of one of New York's leading ethical companies, IceStone at its headquarters in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Brooklyn site, which used to be owned by the U.S. Navy to produce the USS Missouri and other famous war ships, is now home to IceStone, which is waging its own battle for a b (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Some say the worst recession since the Great Depression was caused by an implosion of standards on Wall Street. Others blame bad government policy that set the stage for all the pain. What if that’s wrong, and if instead, all the troubles were linked to a surge in the global work force in the wake of globalization? A new pa (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
For decades, the U.S. dollar has been among the mightiest currencies in the world. Now, the question on some investors’ minds is how low will the dollar go?On Friday, Oct. 9, the dollar Index, which tracks the U.S. dollar against the euro, yen, pound, Canadian dollar, Swiss franc and Swedish krona, touched 75.9, its lowest (Read More)
Globalization Blog:
Providing education on the business value of global information through our research is an important part of our content globalization practice. As we know however, the value of research is only as good as the results organizations achieve when they apply it! What really gets us jazzed is when knowledge sharing validates ou (Read More)