What do you get when you combine 32 national soccer teams, 350,000 overseas visitors, and US$3.2 billion in media and marketing revenues? Plenty of opportunities for multilingual communications, that’s what. Because the FIFA World Cup is being held in an African nation for the first time, we spoke to a local South African firm to [...]

Less than two short months ago, we issued a public call for participation in our annual global study of the language services market. Today, we are pleased to announce the publication of our hot-off-the-press ranking of the Top 35 language service providers — accompanied by a few other noteworthy pieces of new research.

Last week Apple chairman Steve Jobs announced first-quarter revenue of US$13.5 billion, blowing past analyst estimates of $12.97 billion. With the recent launch of the iPad and the continuing contribution of the iPhone to the numbers, Jobs allowed “we’re thrilled to report our best non-holiday quarter ever.” Given the blow-out numbers, financial analysts focused on [...]

It’s that time of year again. No, we’re not talking about Easter, Holi, Norwuz, Ostara, Maslenitsa, Passover, or Purim. It’s the season when Common Sense Advisory issues a call for participation in our annual global market study and ranking of language service providers. In the spirit of renewal that accompanies springtime in the Northern Hemisphere, [...]