Literary Translation in the Spotlight after $10M from Amazon
Amazon's $10 million commitment to translate more literary works into English reflects a renewed interest...
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China Licensing Agreements: The Extreme Basics
Licensing your technology to a company in China has its own special challenges.
Apps in the East: Asian Translation Startups Rising
Asia appears to be sprouting a lot of translation startups: WOVN.io, Reverie, OneSky, Linqapp, HitsEnglish,...
Disruption In Progress: 10 Years and 190 Translation Startups
Big Niche: Translation and Localization Captures the Imagination of 190 Start-Ups in 10 years.
Trailblazers: How German-Language Manufacturers Innovate in TecDoc
In TecDocu, repetitive and highly recurring content is the norm. No LSPs active in the...
Mastering the art of transcreation
Translation is more than a simple swapping of words from one language to the next....
Riding The Wave Of Technological Change As A Translator
While technological change improves efficiency and productivity, how quickly new solutions are released could be...
Pirate Translators: Why Fans are Localizing Games without Permission
There’s a rogue translation niche in the underbelly of the huge gaming industry: fans translating...
How the Hong Kong Stock Market Keeps Translators Awake at Night
The HK Stock Exchange made life even busier for translators with last year’s implementation of...
Apparently, Mobile Trumps Console on Localization ROI
Localization for mobile games, unlike for console titles, is SOP -- and it has been...
Inside the World of Financial Translation in Japan with the President of ExeTrust
Slator spoke to Shigenobu Kawata, President of ExoTrust Co., Ltd., for an exclusive interview about...
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Why Fans Don’t Get to Decide Video Game Localization
Video game localization for a different market is a very peculiar realm of risk and...
Key to Localize Social Media: the One Daddy Account
Social media localization = multiple languages, one "Daddy" account. This article is largely taken from...