Introducing the Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker. This new monthly series features key buy-side people moves and helps inform your hiring, strategy, and business development decisions. Continue reading
Keywords Studios CEO lays out strategic rationale for game localization giant’s cautious, yet deliberate, move into TV and film localization. Continue reading
Keywords Studios dips toes in media localization by buying Germany’s TV Synchron. Game localization now accounts for less than a quarter of revenues versus nearly half in H1 2017. Continue reading
Nearly 300 small LSPs on Straker Translations’ M&A radar as the company provides strategy update at AGM. Shares rally as investors seem confident in buy-and-build plans. Continue reading
The results are in for the 2019 edition of the Inc. 5000 list, which ranks the fastest growing companies in the United States. Which language service providers made the cut? Continue reading
Australia’s Appen leads a H1 2019 ranking of listed language service providers. The language industry again outperformed the broader markets. Continue reading
Key content types, main buyers, and long-term demand drivers in patent and IP translation; and how machine translation and MT post-editing impact production. Continue reading
Slator tracked over 70 language industry M&A transactions and reviewed the next steps founders took after selling their business. Continue reading
Over two dozen charts and tables and high-level visualizations as well as analysis of GitHub code repositories relevant to the language industry. Continue reading
Google researchers approach speech-to-speech translation a little differently in a proof-of-concept that completely takes away reference text, but underperforms compared to existing models. Continue reading
The world’s biggest provider of technical services to the gaming industry blames the “Fortnite effect” for a hit in localization revenues. Continue reading
Meet 8 of the newest companies in the language services market — inspired by everything from passion projects to going after emerging economies. Continue reading
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) in February 2019 published the results of a survey that revealed rates charged by the country’s translators, interpreters, and... Continue reading
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