Find out about the latest mergers and acquisitions, as well as the latest rounds of investments in leading companies from translation services to language technology
Paris-based media localizer Lylo acquires Italy’s Studio PV. Says Italy key growth market for dubbing and discusses hard-to-resource language combinations. Continue reading
AI-based transcription provider Trint has increased its total funding raised to USD 7.8m, with the unique twist of adding NMT into its platform to allow multilingual content distribution. Continue reading
When told that someone wanted to buy her business, AABAM’s founder thought it was a vendor cold call. But AT Language Solutions’ offer was genuine and she ended up selling. Continue reading
Germany-headquartered LSP Transline Gruppe buys Italy-based Interlanguage and local rival Medax, gains medical, video and marketing translation expertise. Continue reading
Japanese media solutions conglomerate and SDI Media parent Imagica Group buys significant minority stake in Pixelogic. Continue reading
Japanese financial printing giant Takara Printing has taken a majority investment in TRANSLASIA to expand into Southeast Asia. Continue reading
Jargon raises USD 1.8m for voice app content management and localization with support from the Amazon Alexa Fund and other investors. Continue reading
Nordic LSP Semantix acquires local rival Teknotrans, a boutique company with a focus on automotive and industrial verticals, which also operates an office in Croatia. Continue reading
Abu Dhabi-based language service provider Tarjama raises USD 5m from Saudi IT firm; plans to invest it in proprietary translation marketplace. Continue reading
Appen pays up to USD 300m for automated data annotation platform Figure Eight, preempting an emerging threat to its crowd-based business model. Continue reading
Reliance Industries buys Indian language services and technology company Reverie to drive localization conglomerate’s digital consumer platforms. Continue reading
Japanese financial printing giant Takara Printing Co. has acquired one of Japan’s oldest language service providers, TOIN, to bolster its translation capabilities. Continue reading
Straker Translations continues to bolt on niche language service providers as it acquires Spain’s COM Translations. Continue reading
Verbit CEO Tom Livne discusses the startup’s Series A and outlines the most common use cases for the automatic transcription platform. Continue reading
Ukrainian venture capitalist Oleksii Vitchenko discusses his plans for translate.com after landing one of the language industry’s most valuable domains in a highly competitive auction. Continue reading
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