Asia accelerates as Singapore reaches third place on Globalisation Index
posted Fri, 2011-02-11 12:38 by
Asia’s position as the current hot spot for economic globalisation was reinforced recently when Singapore reached third place on the Globalisation Index, placing behind Hong Kong and Ireland.
tags: Export, globalisation, Globalization Index, international business, Localisation
YouTube helps bridge language barriers
posted Thu, 2008-11-13 12:26 by
The late, great educator, philosopher and scholar Marshall McLuhan achieved much during his lifetime, but will be best remembered for popularising the term ‘global village’ back in the 1960s.
The Canadian professor was perhaps a little ahead of his time in realising that electronic mass media would eventually break down the barriers of time and distance that had thus far inhibited global communication from reaching its full potential.
tags: Auto Translate, globalisation, global village, machine translations, marshall mcluhan, Translations, YouTube
