While surfing google.md I had the chance to see that the languages available are Russian and “Moldovenească (Moldovan)“.
I was surprised to see this because “Moldovenească/Moldovan” is not really a language, It’s just how the communists in Moldova call Romanian language. I’m not the one saying this but the U.S. government – Moldovan (official, virtually the same as the Romanian language) – and that is why I’m going to send Google (and to all Romanian speaking staff at Google) this memo regarding the Romanian version of Google.md.
I want Google to change the term from “Moldovan language” to “Romanian language”.
Please note that the term „Romanian language” is used to by the UN, European Union, World Bank, CIA, U.S. Department of State, etc. when referring to the language spoken in Moldova.
For further reading: EN Wikipedia and RO Wikipedia pages on this matter:
The 1989 law on language of the Moldavian SSR, which is still effective in Moldova according to the Constitution, asserts the real existence of “linguistic Moldo-Romanian identity”. Title I, Article 13 of the Moldovan Constitution, names it “the national language of the country” (the original Moldovan/Romanian uses the term “limba de stat”, which literally means the language of the state, or official language, thus avoiding the term national, whose sense is that of ethnicity). In the breakaway region of Transnistria, it is co-official with Ukrainian and Russian.
My first mail goes to Radu Tudorache (Country Consultant Romania) but I also want to ask Romanian speaking bloggers to write about this and to ping the official Google blog.
AdEvolution made a top regarding the online spenders in Romanian online advertising. The data comes from direct clients and agencies.
NOTE: the figures shown below are based on the rate-card costs (the actual figures are lower because of the discounts).
The top involved 363 small and medium companies and the budgets were directed towards display advertising, viral marketing, contextual advertising, direct emailing, newsletter advertising, unconventional exposure (e-branding, video-insert etc).
Here are the figures (in EURO) showing a 14,7 million EUR Internet advertising market in Romania: Continue reading ‘Top spenders in Romanian online advertising in 2007′
Ele.ro (Boom Advertising), the most visited website for women in Romania (according to BRAT/SATI) has a 600.000 EUR sales target for 2008.
This news is also a teaser for HotNews.ro (the champion of Romanian online advertising in 2007) as the plans for Ele.ro are above ARBOmedia’s on going sales target for 2007. My guess is that in 2008 HotNews plans to sell over 1.000.000 EUR meaning that this website keeps ARBOmedia running (although the risk of loosing it’s out here since everyone wants to work with HotNews).
A small ethnical group in Romania (0.2%) is Turkish (mostly Muslim). In honor of the celebration of the month of Ramadan by Romania’s Muslim community, US Ambassador Nicholas Taubman donated the “Ambassador’s Collection” of books to the library of the Kemal Ataturk Turkish-language National College in Medgidia. The donation included a wide range of books appropriate for ages 5-17 on American History, US culture and values, including reference books, historical fiction, biographies and books on art and literature. English-learning books and English-Romanian dictionaries were also included. Kemal Ataturk National College is an accredited Romanian school, offering instruction in Romanian, Turkish and English, with approximately 220 students from grades 1-12 attending the school. Continue reading ‘Ramadan in Romania – Iftar’
BitDefender®, a division of Romanian SOFTWIN, provides superior threat management to over 41 million home and corporate users in more than 100 countries, with offices in the United States, Romania, Germany and Spain: Continue reading ‘BitDefender Total Security 2008′
