A selection of relevant news across the industry
Joining a stacked speaker line-up and representing the buyer-side, Dun & Bradstreet’s Chief Global Procurement Officer, Kevin Giblin, will discuss what language service providers need to know about today’s increasingly sophisticated procurement landscape. Continue reading
The Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union spends EUR 26m on staff, outsources more than EUR 13m to external language service providers, and charges between EUR 73 and EUR 147 per page. Continue reading
After the custodian in charge of selling TransPerfect threatens to exclude Co-CEO Phil Shawe from the sales process, Shawe sues in Federal Court. Translation productivity tool Wordfast emerges as major potential obstacle to sale. Continue reading
Three months after becoming the CEO of Canada’s Translation Bureau, Stéphan Déry says the agency is looking at a revised business model for government translation. Continue reading
INC’s list of the’ 5,000 fastest growing private companies in the US is out. And there are more than a dozen language service providers on it. Continue reading
With USD 3m in federal grants earmarked, California’s Department of Health Care Services is taking some time to get a medical interpretation project off the ground. Continue reading
Stacked lineup at SlatorCon New York on October 12 as TransPerfect Co-CEO Phil Shawe and Frontenac Managing Director Ron Kuehl join Lionbridge Chairman Rory Cowan, Qordoba CEO May Habib, and NYU Assistant Professor and neural machine translation researcher Kyunghyun Cho as speakers. Continue reading
SDL’s Former Asia EVP, Richard Delanty, teams up with two SDL India veterans to launch Hong Kong-based language service provider Into23. Delanty explains how fast he plans to break-even, why he selected smartCAT, and why he thinks big LSPs don’t get Asia. Continue reading
Australia is implementing a major overhaul of its decades old accreditation system for professional translators and interpreters. The industry is now weighing in on the pros and cons of the proposed new certification model that would take effect in January 2018. Continue reading
Delaware media reports that mediation between TransPerfect’s two co-CEOs has failed. The source of the report is a lawyer for the court-appointed custodian in charge of selling the company. Shawe tells Slator mediation is not actually over until the mediator or the judge says so. Continue reading
Since 2008 California and Arizona created more than 4,000 new jobs in the language services industry. Over the same period, New York and Virginia shed jobs. Average payroll per employee is down in New York, California, and Arizona but grew strongly in Texas and Florida. Continue reading
Two-thirds of Spain’s book translators are unable to make a living from their work, as average annual income from translation is about EUR 5,000. Country’s leading newspaper calls translators “alone and abandoned.” Continue reading
SDL CFO Dominic Lavelle takes temporary leave of absence to undergo treatment for a medical condition. Stepping into CFO role on an interim basis is former CFO of Fredhopper, a company which SDL sold in early 2017. Continue reading
Latest United States Census Bureau data reveals a big gap in total annual pay between the different US states. Data also reveals that California accounts for a quarter of total US language industry employees. Continue reading
Germany’s Federal Fiscal Court rules that translators only get to enjoy the tax breaks simplified accounting, and other admin perks that come with qualifying as a freelance business if they do all the translation themselves. A two-person agency that outsourced work was hit with back taxes. Continue reading
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