Hot take on SlatorCon San Francisco 2018. A rundown of main themes and speakers from Slator’s one-day flagship event for the language industry including photo gallery. Continue reading
Esther Bond
Printing giant Toppan Leefung acquires Capital Markets and Compliance business from competitor Merrill Corporation. Combined translation unit employs 120 in-house translators. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in August 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, dropped slightly in September 2018 to 100.05 from 100.74 the previous month. Continue reading
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Representatives of the US language industry increasing their efforts to mitigate the impact of a recent California Supreme court ruling, which has the potential to upend the way language service providers work with freelance linguists. Continue reading
Facebook’s video-on-demand service, Facebook Watch, is now available to users worldwide, one year after it launched in the US, as the social media tech giant ramps up video content capabilities on the platform. Continue reading
Researchers analyzed the impact of introducing a Spanish machine translation system to eBay’s platform and found direct and positive causal links between machine translation adoption and economic activities. Continue reading
Language industry veteran Garry Levitt is appointed to the role of Chief Revenue Officer at UK-headquartered language service provider thebigword. Continue reading
Media localizer BTI Studios has appointed Shaun Gregory as CEO to succeed Founder and current CEO Björn Lifvergren, who will transition to a Board role. Continue reading
The Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security has released a tender for translation services worth EUR 8 million for the Council for Legal Aid and other governmental agencies. Continue reading
San Francisco startup Boostlingo has secured USD 3.4m in Series A funding to build out its delivery platform for interpretation services including capabilities for both onsite and remote interpreting. Continue reading
Incumbent LSPs are optimistic about their own H2 2018 business outlook, but doubtful about the staying power of the new UK language companies. How is NMT filtering through the supply chain and is Google’s MT customization a big deal? Continue reading
Video games localization and production specialist Keywords Studios sees sales soar by 72% as acquisitions power growth. Pre-tax profit up 66% to EUR 15.9m. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI) has been developed for the purpose of tracking how employment is trending across the global language industry. In its first edition, the August 2018 index figure shows slight growth to 100.74 from the baseline of 100 in July 2018. Continue reading
Fortune 500 company Leidos Inc. has received a contract award worth USD 170.8m max from US Defense agency DIA for translation services. Company is now recruiting for new Linguists and Cultural Analysts. Continue reading
In the UK, more and more language professionals are launching their own businesses. Who starts a language service provider in 2018 and why? Continue reading
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