One frequently hears it said that the costs of starting a new company , especially an Internet-related company, have dropped by an order of magnitude or two since about 2000. A fledgling software company that might once have required a $4 million investment can now have a commercial version built for $1 million.
Google Translate is one of those sorts of advances. By using Google Translate, a small business can sell to markets supporting scores of additional languages. So a site might be authored in English, but still be usable by speakers of other languages.
Google Translate now supports 71 languages. Khmer is one of the latest languages to be supported.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Google Translate: One More Way It Now is Easier to Create a Global Business
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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