On March 11, 2010, President Barack Obama announced the National Export Initiative (NEI) to “double our exports over the next five years, an increase that will support two million jobs in America.” This week, the White House announced that Obama would name 18 American executives to the Export Council, an advisory group that he created [...]

The rise of the middle class in China has fascinated international observers and mesmerized entrepreneurs and captains of industry for many years. Some see colossal-sized consumer markets for goods and services, while others see a threat to the country’s previously inexhaustible supply of cheap labor. While predicting changes like these may be “shooting fish in a barrel,” the [...]

Journalists writing about machine translation always lean on the proposition that MT will one day put professional translators out of business. Just as likely, ubiquitous availability of “good enough” translation will do the opposite. Here is why. In our localization maturity model, we posited a time in the future when advanced corporate and government users of [...]

With all of the news about hacked e-mail accounts, it shouldn’t be a big surprise that crowdsourcing interfaces can be manipulated, too. Earlier today, politicking or pranking Russian translators forced a Google Translate mistranslation of four segments — “USA is to blame,” “Russia is to blame,” “Obama is to blame,” and “Medvedev is to blame” [...]