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Two Paris-based language service providers won the bidding for medico-social interpreting and written translation services for the city government. Continue reading
A dozen Danish government agencies related to the judicial sector issue a massive collective tender for language services. The entire contract will be awarded to a single vendor in order to “achieve cost savings and economies of scale”. Continue reading
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Non-staff interpreters working in US immigration courts received a favorable ruling from the National Labor Relations Board in their complaint against government services contractor SOS International (SOSi). Continue reading
Qatar’s literary award for translation is open for nominations until August 31. This year’s featured language is German, but prizes are also available for works translated from Arabic to Bosnian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Swahili (and vice versa). Continue reading
Netflix closes Hermes, its online subtitling and translation test and indexing system, and says it has ‘reached its capacity for each one of the language tests’. Continue reading
Serbian mobile game developer Nordeus sees demand for game localization rising as the global games market continues to grow. The volume will be there as well as the fun, says Localization Lead Jasmin Jelača. Continue reading
The 50 internal linguists at NATO’s Translation Service process some of the most confidential content there is. Translation chief Frédérique Pillet explains how they recruit the next generation of translators and how freelancers sometimes need to come onsite to work. Continue reading
With the ambitious goal of achieving natural language understanding by 2030, research institutions in Europe led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence are pushing for the Human Language Project to become an EUR 1bn EU Flagship Project. Continue reading
Six Australia-based language service providers (LSPs) won the bid to provide translation and interpretation for government agencies in Queensland. The contract is structured as a framework with buyers free to choose among the vendors. Continue reading
Anna Schlegel, one of the language industry’s most high-profile personalities and NetApp’s Senior Director of Globalization Programs and Information, talks about how she and her internal team collaborate with more than a dozen vendors to bring NetApp to 150 countries. Continue reading
Under the Revised 508 Standards, US federal government agencies are now required to comply with new rules on captioning, audio descriptions and other alternate texts for digital content made available on smartphones, cameras and other multifunction devices. Continue reading
Twenty-eight students from across the European Union win this year’s Juvenes Translatores, the European Commission’s annual translation contest for students. Continue reading
The National Book Awards will start recognizing translators of award-winning literary works published in the United States this year, under the new award category on translated literature. Continue reading
Elia and ProZ.com partner to broadcast “Together 2018” for translators and translation companies. Continue reading
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