Category Archives: Communications

Importance of Website Globalization

Website globalization may have become a mainstream activity, but best practices are still not recognized or widely deployed. Site owners looking to improve their street cred on the international highways and byways need to look carefully in order to discern … Continue reading

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In Praise of Memorization: 10 Proven Brain Benefits

By Tim Handorf Memory learning catches a lot of flack these days. Informed educators are often quick to write off rote memorization as an unnecessary and even harmful exercise, instead preferring to teach creativity and problem solving. While we agree … Continue reading

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From Cincy to Singapore: Why P&G, Others Are Moving Key HQs

By Jack Neff While Corporate Hubs Stay Put in West, More Marketers Are Relocating Major Divisions to Capitalize on Fast-Growing Regions. Call it the post-colonial era of marketing. After years of ruling their global empires from headquarters in the U.S. … Continue reading

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Your Brain on Vacation: 11 Proven Benefits of Taking Time Off

By OnlineMBA, an online portal that strives to provide you with comprehensive resources and up-to-date information on how to choose the best online MBA program to fit your needs. Your brain works hard every day, regulating your breathing, controlling your … Continue reading

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Are you a Hyperpolyglot?

Everyone is capable of speaking at least a single language for the daily conversational functionality. Monoglots do exist but may not be as omnipresent as ever though. The ever-increasing and intense competitions have heightened the needs and maneuvered the society … Continue reading

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10 Proven Brain Benefits of Being Bilingual

By Tim Handorf These days, attaining fluency in two or more languages looks fabulous on college and job applications and presents opportunities in numerous corners of life completely denied to the monolingual. Old or young, however, bilingual individuals enjoy some … Continue reading

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The Benefits of Bilingualism

By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Staff Writer, Science Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental … Continue reading

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Is Facebook a Social Media Platform or a Translator?

From a social media platform that helps to share and connect one to another, Facebook is now making a huge leap and effort by offering automatic machine translation function on comments made in all other languages into English. The good … Continue reading

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Singapore Tourism Board makes another mistake

By Lianhe Wanbao dated 15th January 2012 Yet another blooper has appeared in the Singapore Tourism Board’s (STB) promotional material. Omy’s tech blogger Lin De Yi wrote yesterday that he had discovered Singapore’s Chinese New Year being called “China’s New … Continue reading

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What is in a Brand Name Part 3: Beyond Car Names

In the third and final part of this series where we examine how similar-sounding words can carry completely different meanings in other languages, we take a look at celebrity names and some unfortunate brand names. Suri Cruise, the daughter of … Continue reading

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