Today in Global Small Business: Emerging Markets Are Exercising Greater Global Sway

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Emerging markets are exercising greater global sway.
• Here are some cool inventions in 2024.
• AI translation and captioning.
• Worldwide B2B ecommerce size and sales forecast. 
• Quote of the week:  "It is usually people in the money business, finance, and international trade that are really rich." – Robin Leach
• Freight forwarder guidance and best practices.

Today in Global Small Business: The Weather in Your Language

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What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) provides the weather in your language.
• Who will win the translation battle, AI or human translators?
• Caution for AI translation.
• Quote of the week:  "Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving." – Anna Rusconi
• Some good AI translation software and tools in 2024.
• A translation tool that will convert videos of people speaking into videos of them speaking one of several different languages with matching mouth movements.