Web Translation Made Simple
The skinny on a new Web-based service that can translate websites into more than 50 foreign languages
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5 Tips for Hiring a Translator
Finding a professional translator who is truly skilled can be a daunting task. Here are five great tips to help you find a qualified linguist for the job.
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Language Learning Goes Social
Boasting nine million members in nearly 200 countries, LiveMocha is capitalizing on an ever-expanding market. CEO Michael Schutzler talks to Inc.com about his business.
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Employers Ignoring Language Barrier
A survey finds few U.S. businesses offer English-language training for immigrant employees. Read more
What Are You Trying to Say?
Translators for your business. Read more
What Are You Trying to Say? [Audio]
English may still be the international language of business, but as more entrepreneurs work abroad, they're finding themselves lost in translation. So how... Watch video
Lost in Translation: Website Translation Tools
Should you translate your website into other languages to try to win more business internationally and reach more customers? There's money to be made by reac... Read more
Microsoft Unveils Resources for Hispanic Business Owners
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) this week launched a series of Spanish-language resources for U.S. Hispanic small business owners that includes the Mi... Read more
Rudy's Immigration Beef
Rudy Giuliani had dinner Monday night in Philadelphia. On the menu: cheesesteak, naturally -- with a side of immigration policy. Hizzonor stopped by Geno'... Read more
Found In Translation
How to make the multicultural work force work. Read more
America's Fastest-Growing Call Center
Portland, Maine–based Listen Up Español, a call center for Spanish-speaking customers, is cashing in on the Latin population boom. Read more
When English Isn't So Plain
Company established a program to teach English to its Hispanic employees. Read more
The Adjective Factor
Having trouble getting your business plan funded? Maybe you're using too many adjectives. Then again, maybe you're using too few. Professor Ian MacMilla... Read more
Language Schools
Globalization and an increasingly diverse U.S. population are driving growth at language schools. Read more
No English? No Service
"An English-only ordering policy has thrust one of Philadelphia's best-known cheesesteak joints into the national immigration debate," the Associated Pres... Read more
Zions Bank Launches Spanish Language Site
Small-business customers can now access bilingual data about treasury management services and international banking. Read more
Growth in Translation
As the world gets smaller and the demand for language services grows bigger, some Inc. 500|5000 companies are cashing in by bridging the communication gap be... Read more
Resources: Telebabble Translated
A quick review of Harry Newton's book, 'Newton's Telecom Dictionary,' and how to order a copy. Read more
One More Reason We're Glad We Don't Work For Big Companies
Inc. staffers come up with the same name for a General Mills cereal that it took a consulting firm a year to find. Read more
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Managing Diversity
One company owner's management techniques help to make immigrant workers feel welcome. Read more
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Book that gives employers the facts about managing employees and the law. Read more
The Dot-Com Congressman
Jared Polis sold his company for $780 million at the height of the first dot-com bubble. Now the serial entrepreneur has won a Democratic seat in Congress. Read more
International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers
An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size. Read more
RCN Offers Spanish-Language Programming to Small Businesses
Video, data, and voice services provider RCN (NASDAQ:RCNI) has unveiled its new themed programming packages for Business Services customers looking ... Read more
Just the Fax, Please
The fax machine is the undisputed favorite business tool of international executives when communicating with their foreign customers. In short, fax machin... Read more
Keep it Short
In Hamlet, Shakespeare said "Brevity is the soul of wit." Winston Churchill said, "Say what you have to say, and the first time you come to a sentence with a... Read more
Learn A Language Over The Phone
Don Schrickel, a Chicago businessman whose work often takes him to South America, is learning Spanish -- over the telephone. Three times a week, Schricke... Read more
Compatible Customer Data in Different Languages
March 5, 2007 -- Omikron, an address-management software company based in Pforzheim, Germany, has registered a patent for new technology ... Read more
PRACTICAL CASH-SAVING IDEAS FROM INC. READERS
$Purchasing products from the appropriate catalogs can save a company hundreds of dollars. For example, if you need a desk for a new word processor or mi... Read more
Successful Small Business Models
Since the Million-Dollar-Mindset for Solopreneurs is about inspiring, empowering, and educating the owners of small business AND those who wish to have th... Read more
The Pacific Rim on a Shoestring
Sales strategy advice for any company that wants to sell overseas but doesn't know where to begin. Read more
Translation and Interpretation Services
Whether it's website translation or in-hospital interpretation, this industry is poised for massive growth. Read more
The Company They Keep
The challenges of hiring, retaining, and training employees in the inner city are the same as they are elsewhere -- and then some. Here's how several CEOs of... Read more
The Lexicon of Loot
Ordering information for Dictionary of Banking by Jerry M. Rosenberg. Read more
The Coming of OLED
Sorry, it's a high tech thing; obnoxious acronyms. I don't come up with these things, I just report on them. Okay, what is OLED and why should you... Read more
Letter from Silicon Valley: Zen and the Art of Management Coaching
Taking the fine art of management consulting to Japan. Read more
Origins of the Inc. 500: Company Names
Follow the Leaders It's an oddity of Rochester, N.Y., that the names of its two premier corporations, Kodak and Xerox, are strange... Read more
Autoharping
A new safety service available to Europeans that allows traffic condition messages to be transmitted between cars. Read more
Plaudits for the Buddy System
Company president talks monthly with 24 employees about policy, performance, etc.--in Spanish and English. Read more
Sales: United Nations
A CEO explains how an Internet-based translation service now allows him to respond to email composed in foreign languages, resulting in a 60 percent increase... Read more
Selling To The New America
A new wave of immigration is changing the complexion of the American consumer market, turning 'minority' markets into 'majority' ones Read more
Microsoft Offers More Bilingual Tools
Office Accounting Express 2008 is now available in Spanish. Read more
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