This morning, SDL announced that it would pay US$14.7 million to acquire XyEnterprise in its latest move to expand its global information management capabilities. The acquisition is the most recent example of consolidation in the fragmented content management system (CMS) sector. SDL acquires good technology at an attractive price (1.48 times revenue versus the 2.5 […]

This week, LinkedIn sent a survey to language professionals to capture their feedback on potential participation in what Common Sense Advisory calls “CT3” — community, crowdsourced, and collaborative translation. What was the reaction among freelancers to LinkedIn’s call for volunteers? Outrage, mixed with ample confusion.

Every year, right after we publish our ranking of translation companies, we receive several messages with comments and questions ranging from people who think that our numbers are too small or too big, to names of companies that they believe should be included in our list but somehow escaped our notice. We usually address these […]

… that is the question. Recently, we’ve noticed two reports of companies claiming that “it just isn’t worth it” to have websites in other languages. Last week, the New York Times profiled several web-based businesses that elected to decrease or eliminate their web presence in some parts of the world, in spite of popularity in […]