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Translation: opt-in for a booming sector

Did you know that the global market volume for outsourced translation services reaches USD 33 billion this year? A huge sum, which also proves that machine translation expands the demand for human translation. If you have ever tried to translate more than one word by machines accessible on the Internet, you’ll see the reason of this boom. Translation machines – especially the free ones – cannot correctly render more complex texts from one language to another.

Chinese is the most compact language

If only we could post in Chinese! According to a recent study, the same text can be up to 70 percent shorter in Chinese than in English. That is, we could share three to four times more info within – say – a Twitter post with you. Chinese is thus ideal for micro-blogging, as these texts tend to have a maximum expanse of 140 symbols. But don’t worry: we will not switch over to Chinese immediately, as we don’t speak this very particular language on a professional level.

Easyling set for Brussels

Ready, set, go - this time to one of the most important centers of the European Union, Brussels. That’s where the language technology industry organizes its LT-Innovate Summit tomorrow, on the 19th of June. Beside discussions on market trends and innovation opportunities, LT also grants awards for the most innovative language solution on show. The best presentations from each session will be selected to receive the LT-Innovate Award. This selection is made with an eye on innovation, business potential, team experience, investment or partnering interest, presentation and profile quality.

Global premiere for a global product: wanderings with Easyling

Almost five thousand miles (eight thousand kilometres): that’s how much business travel we have had in the recent few weeks in connection with Skawa. No matter how tiresome this period was, it was worth the effort: we gained a lot of encouragement and experiences. First in the line was The Next Web in Amsterdam, a huge conference on the future of web business, where start-ups like us also had a chance to present their products, developments.

How does Easyling work?

Website translation was never simple. So you might wonder how could a professional translation service for your website work with one click? Let us show you the 5 steps you should follow to utilize the services of Easyling: 1. Extract the text Just enter your website address and Easyling extracts all the text and images that need translating. No need to putter about with Word or Excel files, translation can start right away!

Breakthrough at How to Web

The first, but definitely not the last triumph of Easyling ticked off. As a proud father, I’m thrilled to announce that Easyling, our cloud-based website translation proxy solution won first prize at Start-up Challenge “How to Web 2011”, the biggest web conference of Central and Eastern Europe. Yesterday, we presented our latest business solution to 750 experts attending the finals of the competition. I have to confess: we are totally blown away by the victory.

Skawa goes blog!

Here we are, with all sorts of information, stories, recent news and future plans related to solutions and services of Skawa Innovation. If you are already familiar with one or more of our products or activities, you can find interesting insider stories on our work and ideas. If you are new to Skawa, this is the place where you can get to know us easily: not only will you find answers to your questions on our activities, but also you can get to know the everyday life, the past and the envisioned future of Skawa Innovation.