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Lessons in Localization for Startups and Emerging Companies

Based on his experience helping technology startups build localization programs, the author shares common pitfalls that emerging companies often encounter when localizing their products — and presents strategies for avoiding them. He concludes with a call to language service providers to appeal to emerging businesses early in their development.
Carolina Freire

Uber’s Generative AI System for Mobile Testing Cuts Costs and Improves Quality

Called DragonCrawl, the code- and maintenance-free GenAI tool boasts “the intuition of a human,” winning Uber’s Senior Localization Experience Program Manager Carolina Freire second place in LocWorld 52’s Process Innovation Challenge.

Hameed Afssari: Localized Software for Everyone, Everywhere

Hameed Afssari: Localized Software for Everyone, Everywhere INTERVIEW BY CATHY MARTIN BIRTHPLACE Shiraz, Iran UNIVERSITY Wichita State University FAVORITE PLACES VISITED London (UK), Hyderabad (India), Deception Pass (US), Mecca and Medina (Saudi...

Interpreters Unlimited offers Uber-like app to book USA interpreters

Interpreters Unlimited (IU) has developed and released IU Customer App, a proprietary program that allows professionals and businesses to book foreign language interpreters and American Sign Language interpreters in-person, over the phone, or via remote video.

Über? An Unterwhelming Understanding of Local Markets?

Uber has been banned in Berlin. Perhaps the offering should have used an umlaut (Über) to get across the idea of a superior user experience to...

How DO Startups "DO" Localization?

I asked the audience after my coffee, context and crapplications talk to the International Multilingual User Group  (IMUG) in San Jose, California recently, if anyone...