Today, Microsoft is adding two new languages to Translator’s ever-growing list of languages—Somali and Zulu! Somali and Zulu text translation is available now in the Microsoft Translator apps, Office, and Translator for Bing. 

This week I'm talking with Jonathan Otis, the Director of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and Growth Strategy at Nimdzi, talking about the very busy first quarter of 2022.

At the 74th Academy Awards ceremony Troy Kotsur took home the Oscar for best supporting actor, portraying Deaf fisherman and father Frank Rossi in CODA. He is the second member of the Deaf community to win an Oscar.

Earlier this week Microsoft announced a new upgrade to its machine translation software, Microsoft Translator, which utilizes Z-code. 

The number of Duolingo users learning Ukrainian increased by 485% in the weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The company will be donating all of its ad revenue from Ukrainian learners to organizations helping Ukrainian refugees.

In an effort to help Ukrainian refugees who settle in the United Kingdom, six organizations of language professionals have come together to form the Ukraine Language Support Task Force, which recently created a series of translation templates for important documents to aid refugees who arrive in the country get settled.

The acquisitions bring a suite of new capabilities to the Boostlingo brand. Interpreter Intelligence specializes in interpreter management and interpretation delivery software, while VoiceBoxer delivers remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI) technology.

Not only does the show need to have an all-Asian cast, but it also needed to be told in three languages: Korean, Japanese, and English, as its characters migrated across the world.

So you have a dream of expanding your business beyond national borders, but the rest of your management team is out of the loop. Getting organized to sell your app abroad requires a roadmap. Here are eight stops you don’t want to miss.

A recent South China Morning Post report suggests that Hong Kong’s legal system has not been adequately transparent about providing English-language judgments in recent months.