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Although Lionbridge Technologies Inc. is playing a key role in globalization of hundreds of other companies from Microsoft to Merrill Lynch to Pfizer, it sure isn’t getting rich doing it. The company has been posting losses for the three consecutive quarters due to the very fact that no matter how high the company’s revenues go, its expenses seem to go higher. One answer to the puzzle seems to be that Lionbridge’s expansion has put it at the mercy of the same twin forces—technology and globalization—that drive demand for its services. Translation is still a labor-intensive process, and Lionbridge’s strategy of employing hundreds of managers, engineers, and translators in expensive regions like Europe may be backfiring with the weakness of the U.S. dollar against the Euro and many other currencies.
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Innergie has announced that it has teamed up with Green Plug on the first implementation of Green Plug’s open systems intelligent power interface. At 2009 International CES, in Las Vegas Jan. 8-11, Innergie and Green Plug will demonstrate the Greentalk-enabled mCube90G powering a variety of consumer electronic devices, each with unique power requirements. The Innergie mCube90G features an innovative two-piece design, in which the smaller Auto/Air adapter can be detached, enabling use of an even more compact adapter when getting power from DC power sources, such as automobiles and airplanes.

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The U.S. is still leading the world in fostering technology innovation, but other countries are rapidly catching up, according to a global survey of about 400 venture capitalists conducted by Deloitte & Touche and the National Venture Capital Association. The biggest reason for the current globalization of technology is the Internet, which “creates perfect information for everyone,” said Mark Jensen, a partner at Deloitte & Touche. People anywhere in the world can figure out who’s starting companies and how to be like them. “Technology flows around the world, and it’s as easy for the Chinese to invest in the U.S. as for the U.S. to invest in China, maybe easier,” he said.
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Collexis Holdings Inc. has announced the formal launch of the Reviewer Finder product, an application which identifies the best reviewers based on their research profile. By using the proprietary Collexis Fingerprint technology, a submitted grant proposal or submitted scientific manuscript is analyzed and the resulting document Fingerprint is compared against more than 1.8 million expert Fingerprints — simultaneously checking for conflicts of interest based on co-authorship and organizational affiliation. The Collexis Reviewer Finder assists in reducing the time to identify the most qualified reviewers from hours to virtually minutes.

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RepliWeb has announced that Burger King Corp. has selected its RepliWeb Deployment product to automate the distribution of critical business applications across its global IT infrastructure. Burger King has adopted standardization practices to accelerate access to IT resources across its global chain of restaurants. The company relies on RepliWeb’s enterprise-class software to deploy .NET applications and web server components driving greater efficiency, reliability and performance throughout its IT operations.
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CDC Software, a wholly owned subsidiary of CDC Corporation and a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software applications and consulting services, has announced results from a Leadership Survey of its customers at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) Technology Management Conference & Exhibit in New York. The survey revealed that globalization is a common thread that will continue to help their industry evolve, with seventy five percent of those surveyed seeing globalization as a primary factor that they believe will continue to enable the financial services industry to advance.
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BT Media & Broadcast has expanded its global media network to South Africa. This network extension is expected to enable the delivery of enhanced real-time video content between Johannesburg and various media hubs worldwide, offering an alternative to satellite connectivity into and out of the region. The GMN, with coverage in more than 70 locations across ten countries worldwide, is based on multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) networking technology that is used to supply secure converged video, sound and data internetworking.

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MFG.com, the largest online marketplace serving the global manufacturing community, has secured a relationship with Lionbridge to localize the MFG.com online marketplace into ten languages. This will enable the rapidly growing marketplace to expand its global presence. Lionbridge will also support MFG.com’s future global expansion to include Japan, India and Brazil. MFG.com is using Lionbridge web-based translation management platform Freeway(TM) to automatically push its content directly from its content system to the latter company for translation. Once translated, the content is automatically reinserted into the MFG.com environment. As a result, the company will be able to speed its update cycles using a touch-free translation management process, and can focus on the core task of providing a global marketplace for the manufacturing community.
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