Facebook took a long time to launch its first new language. The first step to making the site a truly global player. In the meantime, a few social networks have been working hard to get the attention of those users and communities, specially in the Latin American arena. An example of it its Sonico.com (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.sonico.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.sonico.com</a>), who in under 6 months has managed to register over 7 million hispanic users and is growing by 100k new registrations daily to become the biggest and fastest Spanish social network. So, will Facebook be able to secure the Hispanic market, or will the local player have too big a stronghold? Is simply translating a site enough to compete in a market like the Latin American one?
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A 15-year-old complains on Facebook about the domestic chores she has to do. She whines about her parents in general. So her Dad, who works in IT, takes her laptop outside and blasts it.
A German judge has ruled in favor of Apple in one of several patent suits with Motorola, finding that iPhone maker did not violate a patent related to 3G/UMTS wireless communications.
An example of it its Sonico.com (<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.sonico.com" target="_newWindow">http://www.sonico.com</a>), who in under 6 months has managed to register over 7 million hispanic users and is growing by 100k new registrations daily to become the biggest and fastest Spanish social network.
So, will Facebook be able to secure the Hispanic market, or will the local player have too big a stronghold? Is simply translating a site enough to compete in a market like the Latin American one?