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Slator consultant and corporate communications professional who enjoys exploring Asian cities.
Tarjama hires a Head of Product; Effectiff Services names a Director of OPI/VRI Operations; and US Translation Company appoints a Director of Translation Solutions. Continue reading
Transcription and captioning provider Verbit raises a whopping USD 60 million in Series C from Sapphire to fund tech development but also growth via acquisition. Continue reading
Highlights of virtual conference on the language market in India; with practical takeaways from language industry stakeholders on challenges, opportunities, and hot-button issues. Continue reading
Keywords Studios expects 2020 revenues to be up due to continued strong trading and production through Covid; indicates resilience of game localization space. Continue reading
Mere months after launch, GPT-3 is already being commercialized by early adopters. Email productivity startup OthersideAI is one of them — and they just raised USD 2.6m in seed funding. Continue reading
LanguageWire appoints a CFO; Memsource also names a new CFO; and XTM International adds two Senior Solutions Architects. Continue reading
Should LSPs pay freelancers for taking tests? Have CAT tools and TMSs improved? How important is SEO to the lead funnel? And will interpreters ever return to their booths? Continue reading
Sydney-listed Straker Translations lands major deal win with IBM; shares zoom up as investors bet on long awaited boost to profitability. Continue reading
AMN’s 2020 acquisition, Stratus Video, posts revenues of USD 35m in the third quarter as remote interpretation demand recovers strongly after Covid-related plunge in early Q2 2020. Continue reading
Translation management tech and marketplace provider Smartcat raises USD 14.6m in Series B; 2020 set to become banner year for language industry investment. Continue reading
RWS closes acquisition of UK rival in deal that values SDL at over USD 800m and creates the world’s largest language service provider by revenue and market cap. Continue reading
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) derives algorithm to handle lack of training data, making it easier to adopt current machine translation methods. Continue reading
Your take on the Acolad-AMPLEXOR deal is...? What’s the job market like? Is your company currently hiring? Are you still working from home? Continue reading
Ahead of FY 2020 results, and closing of SDL deal, RWS projects revenues of GBP 355m; strength in big tech and life sciences compensates for weakness in IP and General Language Translation Businesses. Continue reading
Remote simultaneous interpreting tech provider, Interprefy, names Annett Polaszewski-Plath new CEO. Founder Kim Ludvigsen stays on as Vice Chairman. Sales set to triple in 2020 on Covid-driven demand. Continue reading
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