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Industry News • By Esther Bond On 26 Aug 2019

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.

Machine Translation • By Esther Bond On 22 Aug 2019

Facebook Patents Alternative to ‘Expensive’ BLEU

Facebook has been granted a patent for its machine translation quality evaluation system, which relies on user engagement data to decide which translation users prefer.

Investment & Funding • By Esther Bond On 15 Aug 2019

Appen and Lionbridge Will Have to Compete Against This Latest Unicorn Startup

AI support services startup Scale AI uses a combination of crowd and automation to label data incl. NLP, putting it in direct competition with Appen and Lionbridge.

Financial Results, Subscriber Content • By Florian Faes On 1 Jul 2019

Ranking and Analysis: H1 2019 Performance of Listed Language Service Providers

Australia’s Appen leads a H1 2019 ranking of listed language service providers. The language industry again outperformed the broader markets.

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Financial Results • By Marion Marking On 16 Apr 2019

Rozetta’s Market Cap Nears USD 400m as Bet on Machine Translation Pays Off

Japanese LSP enters period of “rapid growth” for MT segment. Revenue and operating income up strongly. Shares rally, propelling market cap to nearly USD 400m.

Features • By Eden Estopace On 11 Jul 2018

Continuous Localization of WebCEO’s SaaS Platform, Wiki-Style

WebCEO enlists users as volunteers to translate its software-as-a-service SEO platform and has turned out more than 2 million words in the last year through its Crowd Translation Center.

Translation Management Systems • By Gino Diño On 20 Nov 2017

Build vs Buy: Why Evernote Built Its Own Localization Platform from Day One

Evernote began localization with zero budget, internally developed tech and crowdsourced translations. Now they handle 2.4 million words across 25 languages with their open source stack and direct freelancers.

Technology • By Gino Diño On 12 Sep 2017

Windows 10 to Accept User Suggestions to Improve Bad Translations

Come October 17, users can suggest translation corrections on their Windows 10 OS through the new Language Community app. The program has already opened for so called Windows Insiders.

Features • By Eden Estopace On 8 Sep 2017

Avira Enlists the Crowd to Expand Language Coverage

German security software company Avira translates marketing materials for its products in at least 13 languages, but starts experimenting with crowdsourced translations to broaden language coverage.

Investment & Funding • By Marion Marking On 4 Nov 2016

Unbabel Raises USD 5m in Series A Round

San Francisco and Portugal-based Unbabel raises USD 5m from Notion Capital and Caixa Capital to build out its heavy on tech, light on humans model. CEO says, despite recent progress, the quality gap between neural machine translation and human translation is still huge.

Technology • By Florian Faes On 9 Sep 2016

If Doctors Work for Free, Why Not Translators, Healthcare Startup Hopes

Healthcare platform startup HealthTap, whose 100,000 participating doctors and millions of users contributed nearly 5 billion questions and health tips, launches portal to translate its vast knowledge base into more than 100 languages. How? Free crowdsourcing.

Mergers & Acquisitions • By Florian Faes On 10 Aug 2016

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World’s Second Largest Cryptocurrency Fan Translates Its Ecosystem

Facebook Patents Alternative to ‘Expensive’ BLEU

Appen and Lionbridge Will Have to Compete Against This Latest Unicorn Startup

Ranking and Analysis: H1 2019 Performance of Listed Language Service Providers

Rozetta’s Market Cap Nears USD 400m as Bet on Machine Translation Pays Off

Continuous Localization of WebCEO’s SaaS Platform, Wiki-Style

Build vs Buy: Why Evernote Built Its Own Localization Platform from Day One

Windows 10 to Accept User Suggestions to Improve Bad Translations

Avira Enlists the Crowd to Expand Language Coverage

Unbabel Raises USD 5m in Series A Round

If Doctors Work for Free, Why Not Translators, Healthcare Startup Hopes

Rozetta Pays USD 14m for Tokyo Translation Crowdsourcer Conyac

The Buy-Side: Inside Swiss Post’s Language Service Unit

Spanish Translation Team of Crowdsourced Game Localization Goes on Strike

6 to Watch: How These Translation Startups Disrupt the Supply Chain

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