Language Industry Key Hires of 2020
While 2020 will go down in history as the year of Covid, it also saw six CEO appointments at language services and tech providers as well as several C-level and VP hires, as reported by Slator. Continue reading
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While 2020 will go down in history as the year of Covid, it also saw six CEO appointments at language services and tech providers as well as several C-level and VP hires, as reported by Slator. Continue reading
Language service provider Summa Linguae Technologies grows 114% in Q3 2020, including acquisitions. Data annotation business triples. Continue reading
KUDO appoints a VP Compliance and Cybersecurity; Intento hires a Globalization and Localization Director, and Summa Linguae adds a Solutions Architect. Continue reading
With earnings season for the first half of 2020 behind us, we take a look at how shares in listed language service providers performed year-to-date 2020. Continue reading
Data annotation and life sciences drive Summa Linguae’s Q2 growth. Honyaku Center gets clobbered as interpreting business is wiped out. Lingo24 provides a gloomy forecast for 2020. Continue reading
Clear Words Translations appoints a Sales and Marketing Head for Brazil; Smartcat, a Senior Product Manager; Summa Linguae, a Director of North American Operations; and Qualtransloc, a Marketing Head. Continue reading
Value4Capital’s Piotr Misztal speaks at SlatorCon Remote 2020 on why the language services industry is conducive to private equity’s buy-and-build strategy. Continue reading
Summa Linguae appoints a Chief Revenue Officer; KUDO, a VP of Client Success; Diuna, a General Manager; and Global Voices, a Digital Marketing Director. Continue reading
Australia-listed data annotation provider Appen shares Covid-19 update and guides investors on 2020 profit expectations. Continue reading
Mergers and acquisitions helped the biggest LSPs get even bigger; AB5 prompts protests; bankruptcy, layoffs, and a canceled contract; and new standards for interpreters. Continue reading
Polish LSP Summa Linguae closes deals to acquire two North American companies, Globalme and GlobalVision; sells 51% stake to PE firm V4C. Continue reading
In crucial step toward planned private equity sale, language service provider Summa Linguae signs deal to buy Canada-based localization and data annotation provider Globalme. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity trends across the global language industry, rises again in November 2019. Continue reading
Polish LSP Summa Linguae has secured backing from PE fund, Value4Capital, to finance acquisitions in the US and Canada. Deal sees fund taking majority in LSP. Continue reading
Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, hits record levels in August 2019. Continue reading