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. Continue reading
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Autodesk’s Director of Localization Solutions Jennifer Johnson talks about why she outsources production entirely to vendors, how audits are used to ensure translation quality, and what she thinks neural machine translation’s impact will be on the localization process. 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
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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
With Oracle’s resources now at its disposal, NetSuite is going more global and part of the strategy is to invest big in the localization of its software for more than 20 countries in the next few years. Continue reading
Tokyo-based mini-conglomerate Fidel Technologies acquires India’s LinguaNext; rebrands to LinguaSol. It is Fidel’s second acquisition in 2016 following the purchase of a majority stake in a Japanese patent translation firm. Continue reading
The future of one of the more sizeable localization businesses is not about to get any clearer as USD 28bn Chinese state-controlled conglomerate buys Pactera. Deal values Pactera at USD 930m. Continue reading
Senior Program Manager Jan Nelson comments exclusively on first major release of Multilingual App Toolkit, which streamlines software localization for millions of Microsoft Visual Studio developers. Microsoft Translator included in Toolkit. Continue reading
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