Employers Ignoring Language Barrier
A survey finds few U.S. businesses offer English-language training for immigrant employees. Read story
Language and Linguistics
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 story
Found In Translation
How to make the multicultural work force work. Read story
What Are You Trying to Say?
Translators for your business. Read story
What Are You Trying to Say?
English may still be the international language of business, but as more entrepreneurs work abroad, they're finding themselves lost in translation. So how do... Read story
When English Isn't So Plain
Company established a program to teach English to its Hispanic employees. Read story
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 story
Zions Bank Launches Spanish Language Site
Small-business customers can now access bilingual data about treasury management services and international banking. Read story
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 story
Resources: Telebabble Translated
A quick review of Harry Newton's book, 'Newton's Telecom Dictionary,' and how to order a copy. Read story
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FRANK PERDUCE KNOWS A LOT about chickens, so you can believe him when he says, "It takes a sexually excited man to make a chick affectionate." He do... Read story
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 story
Managing Diversity
One company owner's management techniques help to make immigrant workers feel welcome. Read story
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Book that gives employers the facts about managing employees and the law. Read story
International: Showcases for U.S. Catalogers
An overview of different U.S. catalogers finding profits overseas regardless of their size. Read story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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 story
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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 story
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 story
The Lexicon of Loot
Ordering information for Dictionary of Banking by Jerry M. Rosenberg. Read story
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 story
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 story
Plaudits for the Buddy System
Company president talks monthly with 24 employees about policy, performance, etc.--in Spanish and English. Read story
Autoharping
A new safety service available to Europeans that allows traffic condition messages to be transmitted between cars. Read story
Letter from Silicon Valley: Zen and the Art of Management Coaching
Taking the fine art of management consulting to Japan. Read story
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 story
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 story
Hot Tip: Outsource to Go Global
Even back in 1992, when Liz Elting and Phil Shawe started TransPerfect Translations Inc., their goal was as ambitious as it was clear-cut. They wanted to ... Read story
What's in a Name?
Is your company's brand name doing everything it could? Here's how to get the name you deserve. Read story
Translate Queries into Sales
James Kantor is a little embarrassed. The CEO of Eastern Avionics International, a $6 million company that markets navigation and communications equipment... Read story
Info Line
A new phone service puts a wealth of information at New York's fingertips. Read story
Microsoft Offers More Bilingual Tools
Office Accounting Express 2008 is now available in Spanish. Read story
Internationalize So You Can Localize Successfully
We all know that Europe and Asia are on the road to catching up with the United States in e-commerce. Estimates vary slightly, but they all indicat... Read story
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"If you come to Japan with the feeling that America is number one, you will not be successful in this country. Americans come to Japan and Speak English b... Read story
Holiday Shoppers Fear Online Fraud
Though global in reach, identity theft is more prevalent in English-speaking countries, a study finds. Read story
Name-calling
What the name of your company and products says about you and your business. Read story
Network: December 1991
Network reader-to-reader advice. Read story
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