Iconic gets a new Marketing Manager, Global Lingo appoints an interim Head of Translation and Interpretation, Livewords appoints a new Business Development Manager, Lionbridge places another key executive position in the role of Head of Sales, APAC, and Ubiqus USA welcomes a new Vice President of Sales, Translation Division.
SlatorCon tour took in four global cities across three continents in 2018 and featured a grand total of 35 speakers representing the full breadth of the language industry from startups, language technology and language service providers to the buy side, finance and academia.
France-headquartered language service provider, Acolad Group, buys leading local rival, Ubiqus, a specialist in transcription services and machine translation technology.
Investment bank Raymond James’s Dominic Emery advises language service provider at SlatorCon Zurich 2018 on how to get the most out of a sale or buy process and why preparing for a deal is crucial in a very active language industry M&A environment.
France-based language service provider Ubiqus has acquired boutique local rival Gedev, a specialist in aerospace and defense translation.
The Slator 2020 Language Service Provider Index ranks the world’s largest language service providers by revenue and features over 130 LSPs across the Leaders, Challengers, and Boutique categories.
Download the Slator 2019 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 60 language industry M&A and 15 start-up and tech funding rounds.
Detailed list of 22 private equity firms invested in some of the world's largest LSPs incl. key people, AUM, year of investment, typical holding period and more.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), which tracks how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, drops slightly in June 2019.
Slator tracked over 70 language industry M&A transactions and reviewed the next steps founders took after selling their business.
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more.
Ubiqus bolts on two boutique language service providers to diversify customer mix in core geographies of France and Benelux.
Long the domain of academia, fundamental research in machine translation has become a battleground for big tech and niche providers.
Neural machine translation experts weigh in on Google’s open sourcing of Lingvo, a sequence modeling framework built on TensorFlow.
The Slator 2019 Language Service Provider Index features the largest LSPs in a Leaders Index and the midfield in a Challengers Index.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in July 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, slipped below the baseline for the first time in February 2019.
Download Slator’s 2018 Language Industry M&A and Funding Report — an in-depth summary and analysis of the 48 language industry mergers and acquisitions and ten startup funding rounds Slator covered in 2018.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in July 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, dipped slightly in January 2019 to 101.33 vs 104.02 the previous month.
Ubiqus CEO Vincent Nguyen walked SlatorCon participants through Ubiqus’ one-and-a-half year journey towards implementing neural machine translation in production and how they are encouraging internal and external stakeholders to get onboard.
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.
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