"English content is too competitive, but we see that local language content is underserved," he explained.
Elizabeth Doerr, the English content manager of the watch brand Web site Worldtempus.com said the co-axial escapement "made the Omega calibers different and accepted by snobby collectors".
Moreover, according to Françoise Qvistgaard, a Danish researcher who has studied Minitel's effect on Internet use, resistance to the Internet, widely regarded as an American invention with mainly English content, reflected French cultural protectionism.
The Internet's leading Spanish-language firm will acquire English content, which it hopes will enable it to make inroads into the world's biggest markets and improve its ability to exploit fast-growing Latin American markets.
"The real question put before this court is whether a French jurisdiction can make a decision on the English content of an American site, run by an American company... for the sole reason that French users have access via the Internet," a Yahoo attorney Christophe Pecnard said.
"It will not just be a machine translating our English content into Spanish," he added, but rather will offer culturally specific content aimed at the 50 million person audience in the United States as well as Spanish-speakers in Latin America and elsewhere around the world.
But it won't just be a matter of translating existing English content.
John Artman is Editor-in-Chief for TechNode's English content and has been living in Beijing for almost a decade.
