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
Muslim dating app Muzmatch will launch in 12 languages this week. The London-based firm behind the app has raised USD 1.75m in seed investment and is expanding to reach over 300 million target users globally. Continue reading
Prague-based indie video game developer Keen Software House has found an innovative approach to localization initiated by a highly engaged community of gamers who volunteered to translate its flagship game into their native language. Continue reading
As language service providers expand across more of the localization supply chain, language technologies can be barriers for LSPs to these growth segments. Customer segmentation and industry focus are now shaping the way that LSPs choose to invest in language technologies. Continue reading
Mozilla’s flagship product, the Firefox web browser, ships in 103 languages. All products of the free software community are localized, but they have a unique community-based approach to localization. Continue reading
Vistatec will be hosting a webinar on “Enhancing and Delivering Content Effectiveness Globally” on April 10. Continue reading
A mobile ads marketplace in a linguistically diverse region has introduced a chat-reply messaging system that would soon be available in other languages. Continue reading
The Silicon Valley-based financial conversation platform Juntos uses a mobile communication tool to engage users in their own language to help them achieve financial goals. Continue reading
Serbian mobile game developer Nordeus sees demand for game localization rising as the global games market continues to grow. The volume will be there as well as the fun, says Localization Lead Jasmin Jelača. Continue reading
British game developer Frontier Developments has always relied on language service providers (LSPs) to localize its games. Localization Manager Tamara Tirjak says the company is looking to expand the number of languages it supports. Continue reading
Localization Director Estelle Bailly says good localization can encourage players to spend more time in free-to-play games and to monetize. The US game developer regularly outsources work to LSPs but says no to machine translation. Continue reading
Anna Schlegel, one of the language industry’s most high-profile personalities and NetApp’s Senior Director of Globalization Programs and Information, talks about how she and her internal team collaborate with more than a dozen vendors to bring NetApp to 150 countries. Continue reading
From cease and desist notices to actual arrests—five Chinese nationals allegedly belonging to a large distributor of illegally Chinese-translated Japanese media have been detained by local police. Continue reading
Subscription video on demand (SVoD) provider, iflix, is rolling out its service across two dozen emerging markets. To date, iflix provides localized content in 16 languages and initiated full dubbing productions in three languages. Continue reading
Localizing software like LibreOffice relies on a local community willing to undertake the task to bring the benefits of free and open source productivity tools to people in their native languages. Continue reading
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