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National Defense May 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Breaking Down Language Barriers on the Battlefield Troops attempt to interact with the local population on a daily basis, but without enough human translators to go around, miscommunications abound and opportunities for mutual understanding are lost. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2006 Rich Smith |
Headlines and Fine Print For a real heavyweight to "make news," nothing less than nine figures qualifies these days. Luckily for General Dynamics, the three contracts it announced this week fit the bill nicely. Investors, take note. |
Searcher February 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: Language Translation in the Internet Age - 'my Hovercraft is Full of Eels' Webpages are designed to attract users and to keep them coming back. Along with poor design and typos, issues of unclear messages plague many websites today. |
Inc. April 2008 Michael Fitzgerald |
What Are You Trying to Say? Translators for your business. |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Rich Smith |
L-3 Overtaken by Events Three recent contract awards from the U.S. government which may hold even more promise for L-3's future than did the news that management raised guidance last week. Why is it, again, that L-3 is down 3% post-earnings? |
The Motley Fool June 11, 2007 Rich Smith |
DynCorp Delights The government contractor wows Wall Street, but investors should beware of shaky backlogs. |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2007 Rich Smith |
L-3's Anti-Pyrrhic Loss The company loses a huge military translation contract, but really wins in the end. |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 Rich Smith |
Northrop Not Obvious Was Merrill Lynch's flash announcement to investors, declaring Northrop Grumman "a buy ahead of results," the correct call? |
CRM July 8, 2011 Rob Vandenberg |
Language a Crucial Component for Businesses International collaboration is the new core facet of doing business. |
Information Today September 3, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Please Translate That for Me Google recently added nine new languages to Google Translate |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Rich Smith |
Say What, SAIC? For the second time in its history, the government contractor reported earnings as a public company last week. With the stock up 7% in the days since, it appears that investors liked what they saw. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
Google Translate Can Now Decipher Signs In 27 Languages Through the standalone Translate app, users can translate signs in tongues ranging from Catalan and Indonesian, to Slovak and Ukrainian. |
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2009 Andy Atkins-Kruger |
How to Choose an International Search Agency A vast majority of international search marketing resourcing decisions made this month will be taken by people who've never had to make such decisions and guidance is offered to aid in the process. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Rich Smith |
Slow Motion for General Dynamics Investors fear that decreasing sales in the coming year may threaten the defense contractor's stock price. |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2009 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Relives History The more you study GD's stock, the more you notice that investors consistently underestimate the General's profit-making prowess. |
HBS Working Knowledge October 6, 2014 Christian Camerota |
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy Organizations that effectively marry language strategy with their global talent management process gain a leg up on the competition, says Tsedal Neeley and Robert Steven Kaplan. |
The Motley Fool December 13, 2007 Rich Smith |
L-3's Sub-Billion-Buck Buyback Government contractor L-3 Communications announces that its board has authorized the repurchase of up to $750 million worth of its own shares over the next couple of years. |
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Wanted: Soldiers With Cultural Savvy One of the catchphrases in Army circles these days is "culture training." |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2010 Christian Arno |
Thinking Beyond a Monolingual Audience If you're in the business of selling products or services online, here's how to avoid cutting out more than three-quarters of your potential customers -- non-English speakers. |
The Motley Fool December 17, 2007 Rich Smith |
L-3's Take-Two After conceding defeat regarding their translation contract with the Army, L-3 decides to protest the award to DynCorp again. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 19, 2012 Kim Girard |
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of `Englishnization' CEOs of global companies increasingly mandate that their employees learn English. The problem: these workers can experience a loss of status and believe they aren't as effective in their learned language. |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Rich Smith |
Northrop's Shocking Sale Northrop Grumman decides to sell off its "Electro-Optical Systems" unit to fellow contractor L-3 Communications for $175 million. |
InternetNews May 20, 2009 David Needle |
Gmail Gains New One-Click Translations Comprende usted? You will with a new translation feature for Google's Gmail e-mail service. |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Rich Smith |
Washington Post Indicts Military-Industrial Complex The Washington Post prints a seething report about over-expenditures in the military defense contracting business. |
Search Engine Watch May 19, 2010 Andy Atkins-Kruger |
The 10 Fundamental Laws of International Search Marketing A primer on 10 critical factors in global search marketing -- from content, to keyword translation, to customer behavior, and much more. |
Job Journal September 14, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Interpreters In a world of colliding cultures and languages, interpreters have an important say. |
Search Engine Watch October 5, 2009 Ron Jones |
International SEO 101, Part 2 One of the challenges with keyword research is to truly identify the language of the customer. With international SEO, this challenge is magnified by localization, different languages, and cultures. |
Search Engine Watch October 20, 2010 Christian Arno |
Get Linked: How to Build Backlinks in Foreign Languages The foreign language Internet presents the greatest untapped resource of our time, and word is spreading fast of just how profitable it can be and how easy it is to rank highly in foreign language search engines. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics and the Double-Edged Petard Defense contractors are losing contracts due to cost-plus pricing, and are increasingly switching to fixed-price construction deals. |
Search Engine Watch August 11, 2010 Andy Atkins-Kruger |
Improving Your International SEO Skills If you're looking to take your search engine optimization to a global level, you'll need the right skill set. Some tips on how to gain international search experience, where to seek training, and dealing with other languages. |
CRM July 19, 2013 Keith Laska |
Your Users Are Hungry for Big Language Global organizations must effectively translate content into languages their customers understand. Give your content global relevancy with machine translation. |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
IBM's Offer Translates to Good Business A donation of speech-translation technology to the military is a promising sign of the product's future potential. |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2008 Rich Smith |
Boatloads of Profit for General Dynamics and Northrop The U.S. Navy delivers a veritable boatload of certainty to both companies -- and that is meant literally. |
The Motley Fool December 29, 2006 Rich Smith |
L-3 Wants a Recount $500 million worth of fiscal 2007 revenue anticipated by the defense contractor went "poof!" earlier this month, as rival contractor DynCorp ran away with a multiyear contract to provide translation services to the U.S. military. Investors, take note. |
Inc. June 1, 2003 Anton Piech |
Speaking in Tongues When doing business overseas, the right translator can make all the difference. |
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Orders Slow Down at Northrop Northrop ups 2007 earnings guidance, but the prospects of peace might be affecting the defense contractor. |
The Motley Fool October 14, 2011 Anders Bylund |
You Are Now Free to Move About the Globe Google is breaking down language barriers. Others are sure to follow Big G's lead. |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2011 Christian Arno |
5 Money-Saving Strategies for Localized Websites How microsites, subdomains, duplication, post-edited machine translation, and competing in foreign markets will increase your ROI and save you more money. |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2007 Rich Smith |
General D's Below-Billion-Buck Buyback Defense contracting giant General Dynamics announces a 10-million-share repurchase authorization; at current share prices this represents an almost billion-dollar buyback. Can the company afford it? And even if it can, should it? |
InternetNews November 11, 2010 |
Up Next for SharePoint: Language Translation The new LingoTek service could appeal to multinational firms and other SharePoint shops in need of language translations. |
Information Today May 6, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Free Language Learning Tools at the Library Both public and academic libraries may provide tools that teach a variety of languages for free. Here are a few popular examples. |
The Motley Fool October 23, 2008 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Advances, Shares Retreat After an initial surge in response to Q3 earnings, shares of defense contractor General Dynamics are today executing a phased withdrawal back to their pre-earnings positions. |
The Motley Fool July 24, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: L-3's Q2 L-3 Communications may have some good news for investors when it reports on Thursday; things probably won't be as bad as last year. |
Fast Company Chris Gayomali |
This Twitter Account Will Translate Your Tweets During The Olympics -- For Free A special promotion is being rolled out by One Hour Translation, which plans to offer near-instantaneous translation services over Twitter -- for free to during the 2014 Winter Olympics. |
The Motley Fool June 9, 2008 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics' War Plan General Dynamics has done some unexpected things in recent months, most recently bidding $225 million to acquire ViPS from WebMD owner HLTH Corp. |
HBS Working Knowledge March 24, 2014 Michael Blanding |
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility Research by Christopher Marquis shows that a company's degree of social responsibility is affected by a surprising factor -- the language it uses to communicate. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Global Hawk Costs Soar Cost overruns won't endanger Northrop Grumman's latest surveillance aircraft program, but federal budget cuts will likely hamper future defense contracts. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2010 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Is Still on Track But it's driving perilously close to the ditch. If you own General D today, or contemplate doing so soon, you'd be well-advised to keep an eye on the following chinks. |
Information Today September 3, 2015 |
Boopsie Designs Military Language School App The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center signed with Boopsie for Libraries for support in transitioning to digital resources. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2008 Greg R. Notess |
Multilingual Searching: Search Engine Language Tools For savvy searchers, the multiple languages and content from distant countries create new opportunities for finding previously buried information resources. |