Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report
Download the Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 60 language industry M&A and 15 start-up and tech funding rounds.
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Appen Shares Rally on Full-Year Earnings Upgrade
Australia-listed data annotation provider Appen upgrades its full-year earnings for 2019, forecasting underlying EBITDA of close to AUD 100m (USD 68m).
Here’s How Appen Collects the Language Data So Central to AI
Appen CEO, Mark Brayan, speaks at SlatorCon San Francisco 2019 on the expensive, complex, and crucial process of collecting language data for AI.
Google Resumes Human Transcription of Assistant Audio Content
Google touts new data privacy protections for its transcription programs, which were suspended after a reviewer leaked confidential Dutch audio in July 2019.
Reader Polls: Employed or Not, Getting Paid, Interpreting at Scale, Loc Tech Startups
Is your employment status clear? Are payment terms longer now? Are single-vendor frameworks right for large-scale interpreting? Should startups get into localization technology?
Slator Job Index Continues to Inch Upward in September 2019
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity trends across the global language industry, inches upward in September 2019.
Appen Revenues Rise 60% to USD 165m in H1 2019
Machine learning training data provider Appen posts strong revenue and profit growth for H1 2019. Early integration of acquired data annotation platform Figure Eight proves tricky.
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.
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