Translation technology startup Lilt has hired former Lionbridge Chief Sales Officer Paula Shannon as Advisor. The move follows the company’s decision to begin offering services. Continue reading
Translation Productivity
Charging clients per word but paying translators by the hour? Most anticipated language industry conferences? Top NMT contender DeepL’s fate in the next three years? And which megatrends will shape the market in 2019? Here are the results of our poll. Continue reading
Shopify’s Content and Localization Manager, Giulia Greco, shares how the multi-channel ecommerce company will have localized six million words by the time 2018 ends, and why translation was the easy part. Continue reading
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A lot of Slator’s readers think Europe is lagging behind the US and China in language tech, translation productivity tools are widely seen as over-engineered, M&A-driven consolidation is a net negative, and MT should stay off national security’s radar. Continue reading
After a challenging 2016, UK-based Alpha CRC rebounds from losses to post modest profit for the full year 2017. Company says modern workflow tools and agile working may create a degraded environment for translators. Brexit not considered a serious risk. Continue reading
Denmark’s LanguageWire buys Belgian-based Xplanation in deal that creates one of the largest diversified European language service providers. Combined 2018 revenues to come in at nearly USD 70m. Continue reading
Translation productivity startup Lilt raises USD 9.5m in a series A funding round from Silicon Valley heavyweight Sequoia Capital as neural machine translation puts language industry back on VC radar. Continue reading
Smartcat gets USD 7m from storied VC firm Matrix Partners to further scale its translation management platform and freelance translator marketplace. Continue reading
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
SDL projects 2017 revenues of GBP 285m, up 8% from last year. Pre-tax profit are down 18% due to restructuring charges, delayed software deals, and a faster than expected shift to SaaS. Language services margins improving. Continue reading
Evernote began localization with zero budget, internally developed tech and crowdsourced translations. Now they handle 2.4 million words across 25 languages with their open source stack and direct freelancers. Continue reading
Translation productivity behemoth SDL has settled a lawsuit it filed against Silicon Valley startup Lilt for alleged patent infringement. Continue reading
For Corporates, translation quality is four times more important than cost, but difficulties often impede them from delivering quality at scale. New research shows that stronger connections between teams and technology is key. Continue reading
Managing 30% annual growth, Hogarth’s Director of Localization and Translation Technology decided it was time to move to SaaS. After an exhaustive selection process, Wordbee Translator emerged as the most suitable platform to transcreate global marketing content at scale. Continue reading
To maintain the rich features of its translation productivity suit and accommodate the expectations of its user base for an intuitive interface: that was the challenge SDL successfully overcame with the launch of SDL Trados Studio 2017. Continue reading
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