Marion Marking
Slator consultant and corporate communications professional who enjoys exploring Asian cities.
EasyTranslate names a CMO; lingoking, a CTO; Lilt, a Director of Services; Vistatec, a Director of Sales and a Strategic Accounts Director; and Summa Linguae, a Nordic Sales Manager. Continue reading
Rev cast as gig economy villain over sudden, poorly communicated rate cut for freelancers. Saga may serve as cautionary tale for translation startups. Continue reading
Honyaku Center reports decline in all sectors of core Translation Business, except for Patents. Banks on “active use” of machine translation to grow. Continue reading
New IYUNO CTO Allan Dembry outlines his plans; while CEO Shaun Gregory shares how they recruited Dembry and why he sees a future of fewer but bigger players in media localization. Continue reading
Unbabel appoints a Head of Language Data; Multilingual Connections adds a Talent and Technology Director; Semantix, Acolad, and Andovar hire Business Development Managers. Continue reading
thebigword’s new CEO Joshua Gould talks about the competition, linguists, VC’s renewed interest in the language industry, and Brexit’s potential impact on operations. Continue reading
Big Language Solutions appoints Atlanta-based Dave Perlman as Chief Financial Officer; role critical to company’s private equity-backed acquisition strategy. Continue reading
Zschweigert says the days of pipeline solutions to delivering language are over; and, in the next 10 years, machine translation and human-in-the-loop will still be components of workflows. Continue reading
Transfluent names a Chief Operating and Marketing Officer, Mother Tongue adds a Business Director and Program Manager, Across Systems appoints a Head of Sales, and Lexallo hires a Marketing Director. Continue reading
Swedish interpreting platform startup DigitalTolk lands sizeable contract with Swedish public sector buyer as unusual evaluation metrics are deployed. Continue reading
Two Silicon Valley venture capitalists and a private equity investor discuss their rationale for investing in the language industry, weighing in on an industry undergoing a profound shift. Continue reading
CEO speaks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019 on the principles that have made TransPerfect the language industry’s largest provider by revenue. Continue reading
California passes gig worker bill that defines what a contractor is under the law, without exemption for translators and interpreters. Governor likely to sign bill, which takes effect January 1, 2020. Continue reading
Ministry seeks JPY 2bn (USD 19m) in 2020 budget for AI-powered simultaneous interpretation by 2025 World Expo; 2020 Tokyo Olympics chief interpreter discusses progress in interpreting technology. Continue reading
New Zealand names ezispeak main telephone interpreting service provider, replacing OPI service of 16 years. Certain stakeholders say they are “dumbfounded” by the decision. Continue reading
This information will never be shared with third parties. No Spam.