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Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod's "Shift Happens (Did You Know?)" series tracks the progression of globalization and information technology in a way that shows just how exponentially fast the world is changing. They put into per (Read More)
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 internati (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 (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 (Read More)
ABC News:
Macy's posts smaller 3rd-quarter loss as stores benefits from inventory controls, localization Globalization - Localization - Companies - Internationalization and localization - FAQs Help and Tutorials (Read More)
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. (Read More)
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 solut (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 ou (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 i (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 ha (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 (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 (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 (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 aga (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 organiz (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
A couple of years ago at a conference in New York, I tried out a theory I had been developing: What if climate change presents a security threat in terms of a confluence of oil dependence, funding to terrorists, displacement (Read More)
Globalization Blog:
Fourth 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 Karl Darr, an independent consultant w (Read More)
Fairer Globalization:
I just got back from a presentation at the United Nations of a new manifesto on advancing a "Global Economic Ethic" by the UN Global Compact, the Swiss Government, Novartis Foundation, and the Global Ethic Foundation. Swiss A (Read More)
Huffington Post:
For the first time in the history of any nation, a significant portion of our citizenry is in perpetual and unfiltered contact with a significant portion of the citizenry of other nations. This is almost certain to bring a fu (Read More)