New vice presidents join Versacom and United Language Group while Transglobal Inc. and ITS Traductions welcome senior managers. Continue reading
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Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare students to lead in a rapidly evolving language and technology market. Continue reading
Muslim dating app Muzmatch will launch in 12 languages this week. The London-based firm behind the app has raised USD 1.75m in seed investment and is expanding to reach over 300 million target users globally. Continue reading
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Brussels-based Lexitech has appointed a new country manager in France while South Korea’s Flitto has hired a new CFO. Moravia and Toptranslation also welcome senior managers. Continue reading
Prague-based indie video game developer Keen Software House has found an innovative approach to localization initiated by a highly engaged community of gamers who volunteered to translate its flagship game into their native language. Continue reading
After the March 2018 decision by National Labor Relations Board to order SOSi to reclassify freelancers as employees, businesses and freelancers alike are wondering what the ruling could mean for an industry that has relied on freelancers for decades. Continue reading
MSS appoints a new CEO and Unbabel a new VP of Strategic Accounts. Global Textware and XTRF Translation Management system welcome senior managers. Continue reading
The final ruling settles the legal challenge posed by Dublin-based Word Perfect Translation Service Ltd. to a contract awarded to a rival LSP for the supply of state interpreters to the state immigration service in 2016. Continue reading
Mozilla’s flagship product, the Firefox web browser, ships in 103 languages. All products of the free software community are localized, but they have a unique community-based approach to localization. Continue reading
Facebook is open sourcing its unified deep learning framework PyTorch 1.0, the underlying technology that supports AI and many of its products including Translate. Continue reading
Senior managers join SOS International, Testronic Laboratories, Translation Probst, and Delingua Language Services. Continue reading
The California Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) is seeking public comment on a new interpreter fee regulation, which is also envisioned to streamline how interpreters are selected and paid for work in the medical-legal field. Not everyone is happy. Continue reading
SwissGlobal and XTM International appoint two new senior managers while Morningside Translations and ULG welcome new directors. Continue reading
Two Paris-based language service providers won the bidding for medico-social interpreting and written translation services for the city government. Continue reading
A mobile ads marketplace in a linguistically diverse region has introduced a chat-reply messaging system that would soon be available in other languages. Continue reading
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