This month, U.S. President Barack Obama called for an end to the 16-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. The top two defense officials, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Michael Mullen, followed suit. How will this change affect the U.S. military’s ability to staff languages of limited demand and critical need?

Kilgray today announced the general availability of MemoQ 4.0, a server-based translation memory engine and desktop environment for translators, after several months in beta field test. Although we consider MemoQ a translation management system (TMS), the software also competes against traditional desktop translation memory tools (Déjà Vu, Trados, Transit, Wordfast). LSPs appreciate that a […]

Yesterday employment services provider Manpower announced that it would acquire COMSYS IT Partners, a professional staffing firm. Both companies offer language services in their portfolio — Manpower is the fourteenth largest company on our list of top 30 language service providers (LSPs), generating US$55 million in language-related revenue in 2008 (we are working on our […]

Language service provider Welocalize today announced the release of its web-based MarketSight translation marketplace. In this latest example of translation technologies moving into the cloud, this self-service software is aimed at helping companies manage their marketing translation budgets and operations. Unlike most portals offered by translation agencies, MarketSight lets users plug in any translator or […]