World’s Second Largest Cryptocurrency Fan Translates Its Ecosystem
The world’s second largest cryptocurrency, Ethereum, is translating its website and community material into 15 languages, with the help of volunteer translators.
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Poland’s Summa Linguae Buys Swedish LSP Kommunicera
Poland-based Summa Linguae spent USD 2m acquiring Kommunicera, an “almost identical” language service provider, to expand into the Nordics. CEO highlights investment in NMT, API integrations and Blockchain.
Slator 2018 Blockchain and Translation Report
24-page report. Blockchain and Translation industry overview. ICOs, business use-cases, solution analysis, crypto chatter and further reading, a cautionary tale.
Using Blockchain to Track a Translation to the Actual Linguists
One Hour Translation CEO Ofer Shoshan says that the future is one of blockchain-powered translation pipelines where clients can view the entire process and trace issues to their root causes, addressing them more simply, quickly, and effectively.
USD 30 Million: Two LSP Execs Attempt Language Industry’s Biggest ICO Yet
Summa Linguae CEO Krzysztof Zdanowski teams up with TextMinded’s former CIO Robert Etches in an attempt to raise up to USD 30 Million by issuing a new cryptocurrency to fund a blockchain-based marketplace for linguistic assets.
Neural MT and Blockchain Are About to Radically Transform the Translation Market
While neural machine translation is progressing at breakneck speed and is already impacting the world’s estimated 600,000 translators and 21,000 language service providers, blockchain technology is about to unlock the true value of millions of translation memories.
Reader Polls: Blockchain, RWS-Moravia, India, 2017 Business Climate
Slator readers do not see a significant impact of blockchain and cryptocurrencies in the industry just yet. A majority believes that RWS’s Moravia acquisition makes sense. Many are ambivalent about India’s market potential, and a majority says business has been good this year.
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