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The 25 Best Globalized Websites
After recently releasing his Web Globalization Report Card for the 17th year, author John Yunker said he's been getting positive feedback on what it...
Buyer’s Guide
BUYER'S GUIDE
ASSOCIATIONS
CONFERENCES
European Language Industry Association (Elia)
Elia is the European not-for-profit association of language service companies with a mission to ac-celerate our members’ business success....
Solve the localization puzzle with Memsource
Big Fish Games is a Seattle-based game developer. You might be familiar with some of their games, like EverMerge, a puzzle game which invites its players to mix and match their way through a magical world on their mobile devices. Big Fish’s catalogue of games is impressive, with hundreds of games in over a dozen genres that are available on virtually every platform.
Calendar
UPCOMING INDUSTRY EVENTS
MARCH
ITA 2021 CONFERENCEMarch, 01-03 Online Israel Translators Association
www.ita.org.il/en/ilams-tirft-tirf-1/900-2
RE-IMAGINING SOFTWARE LOCALIZATION March, 18 Online IMUG
www.meetup.com/IMUG-Silicon-Valleyevents/271990288
GALA CONNECTED 2021 March, 23-25 OnlineGlobalization & Localization Association
www.gala-global.org/events/conferences
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
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Columns
COLUMNS
Demystifying the Office Manager
by Terena Bell
Great translation requires more than translators. From project managers to in-country reviewers, linguistically, an entire team must come together...
Focus Articles
FOCUS ARTICLES
Chinese Game Challenges: Tencent’s First Attempt at World Domination
by Ben Wilkinson
The Chinese games market has been booming in recent years, being valued at...
Weekly Shorts | March 12, 2021
University shares 500+ million sentences for MT
Jörg Tiedemann, a professor of language technology for University of Helsinki, has shared more than 500 million translated...
New credential for interpreting in schools
A new credential is now available from the University of Arkansas (U of A) for educational interpreters. The first of its kind in the...
More controversy for Linguistica International
Telephone interpreting (OPI) provider Linguistica International Inc has found itself in the hot seat again — this time in Michigan.
In January and February, MultiLingual...
New data on what CX customers want most
Language is the number one reason why customer service organizations can't maintain message consistency. That's one of the insights provided in machine translation provider...
Weekly Shorts | March 5, 2021
Stimulus funding for translation?
While Washington, DC works on an economic stimulus bill for the entire United States, lawmakers in Vermont are drafting one of...
Q&A with Bob Willans of XTM
MultiLingual Magazine had the chance to talk to Bob Willans, CEO of XTM International, via email about the funding they recently received from K1...
Apple to provide interpreters in stores
International tech company Apple plans to up the availability of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters in its stores, reports information site iLounge. In the...
One Hour Translation raises $10M, rebrands
Machine translation (MT) provider One Hour Translation announced a $10 million private equity (PE) round today, led by existing investor Fortissimo Capital. The company...
White translator relinquishes assignment over race
The Dutch translator chosen to adapt the poem Amanda Gorman wrote for Joe Biden's presidential inauguration has turned down the assignment after some complained...
Nimdzi launches ranking of Top 100 LSPs
The guesswork around the performance of the industry in 2020 ends with the first ranking of language services providers by revenue. Nimdzi Insights just...
ITA Goes Online & International
Covid-19 restrictions mean that — like other industry groups — the Israel Translators Association (ITA) is unable to hold its annual conference in person...
Weekly Shorts | February 26, 2021
Lengoo raises 20 mill USD
Machine translation maker Lengoo has raised 20 million USD in a series B investment round, American business news site TechCrunch...
New Medical Interpreter Law Proposed
In the United States, there's already a federal law stating hospitals have to provide equal language access to limited English proficient (LEP) patients —...
ELIA Together Starts Today
This is day one of Together at Home — the virtual version of the European Language Industry Association's (ELIA) annual conference. The event offers...
US Interpreter Faces Criminal Charges
Imagine you're translating highly confidential wiretaps for the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The wiretaps are perfectly legal. They're actually part of a multi-year...
Weekly Shorts | February 19, 2021
Facebook fixes translation error that called farmers "peasants"
Facebook has removed its translation error from a recent covid-19 post on California governor Gavin Newsom's page,...
Fake Interpreter Going to Prison
Mirwais Patang is not an interpreter, but he's now facing two years in prison for pretending to be one.
When Patang was 18, The Evening...