Moscow Translation Club Transforms to Russian Association of Translation Companies

The Moscow Translation Club has evolved into the Russian Association of Translation Companies — the localization industry's newest association. The Russian Association of Translation Companies...

Friday Roundup | Aug 14, 2020

An end-of-the-week recap of localization industry news you may have missed Eurotranslate moves offices Eurotranslate has moved to a new office space. The new address is...

Translated to provide EU Parliament with real-time speech translation AI

Debates will be transcribed and translated by a new state-of-the-art MT system that keeps humans in the loop Translated has been selected by the European...

Appen (ASX:APX) Targeted By Hackers

Appen Limited (ASX:APX), a multilingual AI enablement and machine learning company headquartered in Sydney, issued a report on July 30th (Australian time) that malicious...

Straker Posts Record Growth Amid COVID-19 Filing Reveals

New Zealand's Straker Translations (ASX:STG) increased revenues by 28% in June 2020 compared to the same month in 2019, according to quarterly filings with...

SDL Partners with Reynen Court

According to a report released by Business Wire, Reynen Court LLC platform has partnered with SDL Machine Translation. Reynen Court provides law firms and legal...

IKEA Family Foundation and other venture capitalists invest $1.1 million into CMS for digital games

Sweden-based localization company LocalizeDirect just announced an investment of SEK10,264,530 ($1,130,802). The investment comes from Entreprenörinvest, owned by The IKEA Family Foundation, and a...

$6 Million New Funding For KUDO Remote Interpreting Platform

KUDO, a New York-headquartered, cloud-based virtual interpreting platform, has been flying high since the beginning of the year as travel bans and work from...

Are You A Startup Sherpa Or A UX Rockstar? Don’t Believe A Word

Shopping Around For Sherpas Check out this superb article by linguist, lexicographer, columnist, and self-described "all-around word nut"  Ben Zimmer (@bgzimmer) in The Atlantic. Ben discusses the cultural...