At its annual meeting in Montréal on 16 October, the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA) pressed for realistic, usable language standards. GALA announced that it would continue the standards work it started in LSGB.

Proz.com, the most popular translation portal on the web, has begun offering vendor management services for LSPs and direct clients.

India’s National Knowledge Commission thinks that the translation Industry in India "has huge potential and has the capacity to create more than 500,000 jobs in the country."

What kind of financial return should a company expect when it globalizes its website? If it translates the e-commerce pages, will more people buy? Or is English enough for the still English-saturated web? Some new research answers these questions.