After pushback, Switzerland’s national postal service reverses ban on employees using DeepL, Google Translate. Ban remains for PostFinance bank, which must rely on internal MT engine, Post Translate.
DACH leader Apostroph Group acquires Marco Gehring Communications, a boutique language service provider based in Italian-speaking Switzerland.
DACH-region language service provider Apostroph Group acquires boutique rival USG Übersetzungs-Service AG in Switzerland in early 2020 deal.
UN asks vendors to pitch solutions for remote interpreting, neural machine translation, speech-to-text, etc. to secure one of 25 spots at January 2020 conferencing tech fair in Geneva.
Interview with new DeepL CEO Jaroslaw Kutylowski about Europe focus, customer service, and the role of professional translators as machine translation improves.
List of 250 Swiss-based language service providers registered as a corporation (AG) or limited liability company (GmbH).
Remote simultaneous interpreting company Interprefy valued at USD 21m as Swiss startup completes sixth and largest funding round.
The three success factors for Language Service Providers processing growing volumes of digital text in smaller batches and with shorter turnaround times.
Switzerland’s biggest automotive company has been relying on Supertext’s technology and creativity to translate multilingual communications for VW and Seat since the beginning of 2019.
Swiss Parliament elects former conference interpreter Karin Keller-Sutter as one the country’s seven Federal Councillors. Keller-Sutter’s language proficiency seen as one of her key advantages over rival candidates.
SeproTec Multilingual Solutions recently inaugurated a new office in Basel, Switzerland as part of their international expansion plan.
Swiss Supreme Court forces federal government to disclose spend on external contractors. Data reveals USD 17m spent on external translation services in 2014, sharply up from 2011. RR Donnelley’s MultiCorpora only language industry-related mention on contractor list.
With salaries of USD 135,000 for in-house translators and USD 0.40 per word paid to freelancers, Switzerland’s federal administration is home to some of the world’s best paid translation jobs.
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