• Lionbridge, a provider of localization services, has announced that Corinne Saunders has been hired as managing director, EMEA.

• XTM International, developers of a translation management system and computer-aided translation tool, has hired Justin Bechtel as business development manager, Monika Voorhis as solutions architect, Sara Basile as product manager and Dave Ruane as digital content and partnership manager.

• Iconic Translation Machines Ltd., a language technology software company, has hired Martin Brehhov and Alex Waller as software engineers, and Chao-Hong Liu as a machine translation scientist.

• Amplexor, a consulting services and solutions provider, has hired Marie-Laure Vinckx and Manuel Stöckl as managing directors for Germany and Switzerland.

• Comunica, a provider of language services, has hired Nicolás Martín Fontana as vendor and sales manager.

• Language I/O, a software company that provides a customizable combination of machine and human translation, has hired Fabian Lobera as chief financial officer.

Byte Level Research, analyst of the art and science of web globalization, has released its 2020 “Web Globalization Report Card” analyzing 150 global websites across more than a dozen industry categories. It focuses on websites that have excelled in the practice of web globalization and identifies emerging trends.

CSA Research, an independent market research firm specializing in the language service industry, has published “The State of the Linguist Supply Chain.” The report covers methodology and information sources used and presents more than 50 figures and tables with data on linguists’ offerings, background and career, clientele, technology usage, income from language services, volunteer work and the evolving future.

CSA Research has also published “Six Supply Chain Challenges.” The report is based on a survey conducted from July through September 2019, with 7,363 translators and interpreters.

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) has added a new pronunciation lexicon to its catalog. The SpeechTera Pronunciation Dictionary is a machine-readable pronunciation dictionary for Brazilian Portuguese and comprises 737,347 entries. Its phonetic transcription is based on 13 linguistics varieties spoken in Brazil.

The European Parliamentís (EP) Directorate-General for Translation has awarded eight translation contracts to Amplexor — three lots as main supplier (Dutch, Italian and Latvian) and five more as an alternate supplier. The digital solutions provider also won another tender procedure for the EP as main translation partner for Spanish and Polish.