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This article talks about how people of France are beginning to feel that part of their identity is being taken away from them when large companies begin to buy cornichons from countries other than France.

Talks about how a small company in Iowa wants to keep their labor local rather than using workers from other parts of the world.

This article gives examples of globalization and outsourcing by talking about how Indian workers in call centers take calls from around the world and are required to master British or American accents.

The rapid development of business and personal technology has revolutionized our world within the space of a handful of generations. One of the greatest benefits of this revolution has been the progress made toward an actual global community. As our digital world increases in speed and accuracy, people from various nations and cultures have the opportunity to share common experiences almost instantaneously.

Mike McCue founded Tellme Networks in 1999 as the CEO. He joined Microsoft as the General Manager of the Tellme subsidiary after its acquisition. In 2000, Mike led Tellme to launch one of the world's first Internet platforms to deliver web data to anyone over any telephone. Starting with simple Web services, Tellme's innovative platform inspired the migration of large-scale phone services from proprietary applications to open standards applications and drove the global adoption of VoiceXML. Before founding Tellme, Mike worked at Netscape as Vice President of Technology. He joined Netscape after their successful acquisition of the first company he founded, Paper Software, a leader in 3-D browser technology. Mike was honored with a Kilby International Award as a Young Innovator for his work bringing 3-D technology to the world through Netscape's Web browser.

Explains what globalization is and the effects of it.

Globalization, Economics and Education.

worked for wild brain, an animation studio that created stuff for the Disney channel.

Over the last 25 years, Scott Hyten has either been a founding employee, founded, co-founded or provided startup capital for some of the world's leading companies and practices, including technology practice Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) (Continuum outsourcing), the world's leading healthcare technology practice at Perot Systems (NYSE:PER); the largest independent animation studio at Wild Brain; and the world's leading managed hosting and internet broadcast compan at ThePlanet.com. Whether through managing 3-D Seismic exploration in the North Sea, Indonesia and Africa for Mobil Oil or building more than 100 computer-generated television shows and music videos for the Walt Disney Company, Hyten has pioneered the use and integration of technology utilizing a worldwide supply chain while producing product for a global market. He is featured in Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tom Friedman's book, "The World is Flat." and has latterly received the Albert Einstein Award for technology, Scott Hyten's Specialties: Technology, Entertainment, Digital Content Distribution and Music

This article shows how globalization has affected the record industry.

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Naomi Klein talks about Globalizaiton and Outsoucing

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Wireless technology has evolved. At first, the goal was to expedite the communications between humans. Now, however, the new wave  of wireless technology focuses on machine-to-machine(M2M) interactions. "The M2M phenomenon is part of the larger drive to create an "Internet of Things" - a global network that not only links computers, tablets and phones but that connects everything from bikes to washing machines to thermostats. Machina Research, a British firm, believes there will be 12.5 billion "smart" connected devices, excluding  phones, PCs and tablets, in the world in 2020, up from 1.3 billion today."

This article is about how mobile devices should be able to improve the lack of youth employment, but we are not making the most of the opportunity.

This long article discusses ways that technology is beneficial and how it is detrimental to the environment. Also, it explains how people should try to not have technology have such a negative effect on the environment

"The Impact of Globalization through Media | Sofia Hayati Yusoff - Academia.edu." The Impact of Globalization through Media | Sofia Hayati Yusoff - Academia.edu. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 2013.

Lynton, Michael. "Globalization and Cultural Diversity." Yale.edu. Yale, n.d. Web. 12 Mar. 13.