Media entertainment is a high-growth industry characterised by more content, more language pairs and ever-shorter turn-around times. Find out what’s new in media localization and what’s been shaping the industry in 2018. Continue reading
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Half-year revenues at Media localizer ZOO Digital up 17% driven by adoption of cloud-based dubbing and a sales mix shift to localization. Earnings declined due to heavy investment in order to capture future market share. Continue reading
As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks. Continue reading
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Facebook’s video-on-demand service, Facebook Watch, is now available to users worldwide, one year after it launched in the US, as the social media tech giant ramps up video content capabilities on the platform. Continue reading
Professor Laura Burian, the new dean of the Middlebury Institute’s Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education, says her priority is to adapt the curriculum to prepare students to lead in a rapidly evolving language and technology market. Continue reading
ZOO Digital was in the right place at the right time when the streaming revolution hit. CEO Stuart Green addressed participants at SlatorCon London in May 2018 and explained how media localization has fundamentally changed and how he plans to take the company forward. Continue reading
In first trading update post Moravia acquisition, RWS says revenues jumped by 82% to GBP 139.6m and pre-tax profit was at least GBP 28.3m. While analysts continue to rate the stock a buy, the company lost over USD 250m in market cap in early London trading. Continue reading
Apple has reportedly quietly rolled out a beta test for a browser-based translator that can translate English into 32 other languages. Continue reading
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