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In connection with the 2010 Football World Cup, mobile giant Sony Ericsson has launched a “Go Danish” campaign. Denmark is the only Nordic country to qualify, and Sony Ericsson is now urging Denmark’s Nordic sisters and brothers to behave like Danes!

If you prove yourself Danish enough, you might be the lucky winner of tickets for Denmark versus. Japan on 26 June in South Africa.

English is of course widely spoken as a second language throughout the world - it’s a way for people from different backgrounds to communicate effectively in an international setting. Grammar rules are broken. Words are mispronounced. But people still understand one another. And now a retired French IBM marketing executive, Jean-Paul Nerrière, has given this pattern a name: Globish. He claims it’s “the worldwide dialect of the third millennium”.

Nerrière says that memorizing 1,500 English words and a song (he suggests “Strangers in the Night”), is all it takes to communicate in Globish. You won’t sound eloquent, but you’ll be understood. At least by non-native English speakers. And that’s the catch. Seems that native English speakers can’t understand a word of this English-based international language. Odd, no?

So does Nerrière have any ulterior motives for establishing Globish as a lingua franca? Well, he does claim that,”Globish will limit the influence of the English language [on French] dramatically.”

APM Terminals will invest USD $120 million over the next 25 years in the Port of Monrovia, Liberia. This follows Liberia’s choice of APM Terminals as the preferred operator at the port.

Internet telephone company Skype, which was founded by Denmark’s Janus Friis and Sweden’s Niklas Zennström, could be heading for a listing on the stock market that could give the company a value of up to USD 5.5 billion (DKK 30 billion). Skype currently has 500 million users, and earned USD 48 million in the third quarter of last year.
(Source: business.dk)

One of Denmark’s most famous Golden Age painters has a solo exhibition at the National Gallery in London for the first time. Despite the painter’s popularity, it’s only now that Christian Købke’s (1810-1848) paintings are being exhibited abroad. The exhibition “Christian Købke: Danish Master of Light” comprises 48 of the artist’s paintings.

US jetfighter manufacturer Lockheed Martin says it can open up new markets for Danish companies like Grundfos. “Danish companies have a high level of technology that we can use to fill gaps in our platform. At the same time we can give them new knowledge and help them launch into markets where they don’t yet have the capability to do this themselves,” says Lockheed Martin’s Vice President, Susan Maraghy.
(Source: business.dk)

During their meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, business leaders from companies such as Nestle, PepsiCo and Novo Nordisk created a new business-driven initiative to promote a healthy workplace. “The Wellness Alliance for Workplace Health” campaign is designed to allow companies to focus greater attention on their employees’ health.
(Source: borsen.dk)