SlatorCon Zurich 2018 featured language industry experts from big tech, life sciences, language services, private equity and investment banking, hosting speakers from Google, Roche, Ubiqus, LanguageWire and Raymond James, as well as Slator’s own Florian Faes. Continue reading
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology. Continue reading
Zurich-based remote interpretation startup Interprefy has raised CHF 0.5m in funding and is now valued at CHF 11.5m. Former CLS CEO departs board while CEO of partner company joins new non-exec director. Continue reading
The drivers of growth in Asia’s language industry came into focus as Slator hosted its inaugural SlatorMeet in Hong Kong on October 11th, 2018. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in August 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, climbed over two points in October 2018 to 102.69 from 100.05 the previous month. Continue reading
France’s Ubiqus expands its footprint in Canada and buys Montreal-headquartered Textualis. Acquisition diversifies Ubiqus’ client portfolio away from government buyers into the private sector. Continue reading
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
CEO Benjamin du Fraysseix lives up to his reputation as one of the language industry’s busiest dealmakers by buying Belgian rival Telelingua. Combined group revenues to exceed USD 100 million in 2018. Continue reading
Some familiar names helped pushed May 2018 to the top of the charts in terms of neural machine translation research. Meanwhile, the hottest research trends appear to be the race to better quality and translating low-resource, non-Latin languages. Continue reading
Slator launches the 2018 Slator Language Service Provider Index (LSPI). The index comprises the largest language service providers worldwide with aggregate 2017 revenue of USD 4.7 billion derived from services such as translation, localization, language technology, interpretation, subtitling, dubbing, and related services. Continue reading
Ubiqus goes shopping in Spain, acquiring life sciences boutique LSP Celer Soluciones and buying the remaining 40% in Traducciones Poliglota it didn’t already own. Ubiqus President Vincent Nguyen says both companies will be integrated by 2018. Continue reading
From newly formed ULG to MotaWord, Cloudwords, thebigword, and RWS’s CTi unit, 2016 has seen its fair share of senior appointments in the language industry. Here is a roundup of last year’s most important new hires. Continue reading
Technology may enable humans to replace many things, but relationships remain a constant in the language industry. Amid today’s great technology disruption, the human touch will not go away, says a recent appointee. This is the week in language industry hires at Ubiqus, Hero Tolk, TextMinded, and Andovar. Continue reading
Anecdotes and teachable moments from recent appointees at CSOFT, Semantix, Capita TI, EQHO, Talkbridge, Ad Verbum, and Geneva Worldwide. Continue reading
Ubiqus has relocated their US HQ to downtown Manhattan, New York, along with its recent acquisition LanguageWorks. Continue reading
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