A Rundown on SlatorCon San Francisco 2018
Hot take on SlatorCon San Francisco 2018. A rundown of main themes and speakers from...
Features
Simplifying complex issues in language solutions and AI.
Reader Polls: Unpacking ‘Human Parity’, Public Sector Demand, Startups, Growth Regions
Slator readers give their opinion on public sector demand for language services and technology, the...
Job Site Indeed is Assembling a New Kind of Team to Maximize Localization Impact
Why content effectiveness is key and translation quality does not happen by default at Indeed.com...
The Translation Startup EcoSystem According to AngelList
How many translation startups are still active? How many have shut down? Where are they...
Reader Polls: New LSP Survival, 2018 Outlook, NMT’s Impact, Google Auto ML
Incumbent LSPs are optimistic about their own H2 2018 business outlook, but doubtful about the...
Who Starts a Language Service Provider in 2018 and Why?
In the UK, more and more language professionals are launching their own businesses. Who starts...
Why People Leave the Language Industry
What motivates people who have studied languages and translation to leave behind a career in...
How Quora Is Scaling Q&A Across the Globe
Quora’s Head of Product Internationalization, Shreyes Seshasai, explains how they are building an effective localization...
Continuous Localization of WebCEO’s SaaS Platform, Wiki-Style
WebCEO enlists users as volunteers to translate its software-as-a-service SEO platform and has turned out...
How Retail Giant Sportmaster Runs Translation Operations
As World Cup fever has gripped Russia, the Head of Translation at Eastern Europe’s leading...
How A Mistranslation in Football’s Rules Was Fixed Just in Time for the World Cup
Hidden deep in the German version of the laws of the beautiful game was a...
Reader Polls: Work-Life Balance, Crypto, CAT Satisfaction, Job Hunting
In Slator’s June 2018 newsletter polls, we explored reader input on Exfluency’s ICO succeeding or...
36 Million Words: Why Autodesk’s Localization Team ‘Fully’ Outsources Production
Autodesk’s Director of Localization Solutions Jennifer Johnson talks about why she outsources production entirely to...
On-strike European Parliament Interpreters Summoned Back to Duty
The interpreter strikes planned in the wake of changes to working conditions at the European...