Appen Limited appoints Armughan Ahmad CEO and president
Armughan Ahmad will be stepping in as CEO of Appen Limited in an effort to restore the company's flagging revenue.
Tarjimly receives a big boost from Boeing
Boeing has committed to a $100,000 multi-year investment in the app, which will allow Tarjimly to reach a larger pool of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers, as well as language experts to provide linguistic aid.
Straker reports strong growth in quarterly report
Straker Translations reported on Friday that it has earned $33 million NZD (19.37 million USD) in revenue during the first half of Fiscal Year...
How language companies can stay on top of the game in...
We are now living in a data-centric era, in which data is crucial to corporations, governmental agencies, research groups, and even language service providers when making decisions. Data offers us insights into our current situation and assists in making successful future predictions.
Consolidation and Growth in Media Localization
TransPerfect has been expanding its media localization portfolio via strategic acquisitions — no less than seven since October 2019 (including Hiventy). The media localization segment is one that has absolutely exploded over the last few years, mostly due to changing consumer behaviors and the increasing popularity of over-the-top (OTT) platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and Apple TV+.
TransPerfect now owns more than 90 recording rooms after Hiventy acquisition
With Hiventy under its wing, TransPerfect — which is already the largest LSP in the industry, according to this year’s Nimdzi 100 — is poised to expand its audiovisual services, thanks to Hiventy’s suite of international offices and team of roughly 300 employees.
Eriksen Translations wins awards from Women’s Business Enterprise Council Metro NY
The WBEC Metro NY awarded Eriksen Translations with the awards, honoring the LSP’s work to help city and state agencies in the New York City metropolitan area provide quality language access services.
Google Translation Hub: game-changer or just another tool in the toolbox?
On Oct. 11, Google announced the launch of a new AI-powered cloud service called Translation Hub. The announcement instantly made waves in the language services industry and beyond, so Nimdzi took a closer look to see what’s really behind the new offering from the tech giant.
Video game industry meets booming demand for localization in Southeast Asia
Over the last decade, we have seen localization for video games continuously expand into new regions, and most recently there has been a significant increase in demand for localization and testing for Southeast Asia (SEA) regions.
Smartling CEO Bryan Murphy on company’s new VP of Machine Translation...
MultiLingual spoke with CEO Bryan Murphy to learn a bit more about just what exactly the new position entails as well as some of the projects Beregovaya will be working on in the new role.
Zingword CEO Robert Rogge talks ZingChat release
Designed as a team chat program specifically geared for translators, ZingChat is engineered to fit in with the Zingword product ecosystem and provide language workers a seamless communication experience. Robert Rogge, CEO of Zingword, took the time to answer a few questions about the work that went into the new tool.
NeuralSpace completes seed round with $2.8 million
With its first round of investments finished, the startup notes that it hopes to develop improved speech-to-text and text-to-speech models for low-resource languages.
