Localize \Lo"cal*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Localized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Localizing}.] [Cf. F. localiser. See {Local}.] To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. --H. Spencer. --Wordsworth.
Even candy-maker Leaf Inc. and Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd., which each spent $5 million to sponsor nationwide Major League baseball, localize with events like Fuji Photo Day at the ballparks.
Sony is hoping its Advanced Video Technology Center in San Jose, Calif., will help it localize products for the U.S. market while defusing political tensions over the next generation of television.
Now the bastion is threatened, if not by the Baby Bells, then by direct mail and the healthy market in free weeklies (largely unrepresented at Los Angeles) that localize news and advertising.
A customized stocks service that allows members to localize market table pages is in print in a dozen member newspapers, and the installation schedule for SelectStocks will be accelerated through the rest of the year.