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World Voice Center, a provider of translation services, has changed its name to World Translation Center in order to better represent its overall service offerings. The company has also launched a new website.

World Translation Center, Web: http://www.worldtranslationcenter.com

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LinguaCounsel, an e-marketing company, has been acquired by BoutiqueABC, an umbrella corporation for several niche companies, specializing from web development and e-marketing services to hosting and e-commerce solution development.

LinguaCounsel, E-mail: info@linguacounsel.com, Web: http://www.linguacounsel.com

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Wise-Concetti JVC, a provider of localization services, has redesigned its website. The company specializes in Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Malay, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and other South-East Asian languages.

Wise-Concetti JVC, E-mail: manh@vnlocalize.com, Web: http://www.vnlocalize.com

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Milengo Ltd., a provider of translation and related localization services, has hired Bjoern Lux to fill its newly created position of Dream Maker. Lux has over seven years of experience in selling enterprise localization services.

Milengo Ltd., E-mail: contact@milengo.com, Web: http://www.milengo.com

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IMTT, a translation and training company offering solutions for the English, Spanish and Portuguese languages, has hired Agustina Gutierrez as project manager. Gutierrez' experience includes foreign trade, foreign affairs, event organization, intercultural program coordination and promotion and recruiting.

IMTT, E-mail: contact@imtt.com.ar, Web: http://www.imtt.com.ar

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Vasont Systems, a provider of component content management solutions, has hired Elvin Lopez as applications engineer. Lopez has over 10 years of pre-sales experience supporting sales of business intelligence, application performance monitoring tools and enterprise software.

Vasont Systems, E-mail: info@vasont.com, Web: http://www.vasont.com

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Common Sense Advisory, Inc., an independent market research firm, has published three reports.

"The Owner’s Guide to Maximizing LSP Value" examines the various growth and exit strategies, as well as the full range of issues that confront owner/operators of small to medium-size language services providers as they manage their companies.

"Localization Return on Investment" details why companies need to take their analysis to a new level to highlight the benefits of adapting products and services to local markets in order to show the business value of localization.

In its report, “Language Services Market 2010,” the firm details the findings of its six-month study that identified 23,380 unique suppliers of translation and interpreting services across 149 countries. Topping the global list of language service companies is Hewlett-Packard's Application and Content Globalization (ACG) group with 2009 revenues of US$457 million, followed by McNeil Technologies ($404.7 million) and Lionbridge Technologies ($389.2 million). As part of the study, the firm also surveyed 839 language services suppliers around the world.

Common Sense Advisory, Inc., E-mail: info@commonsenseadvisory.com, Web: http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com

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Registration is open for worldwide Certified Localisation Professional (CLP) Level 1 courses during the summer through fall of 2010 by The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP). The courses consist of a combination of ten self-learning online modules and a four-day on-site intensive training and examinations session. All successful participants will receive TILP Level 1 CLP Certification.

The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP), E-mail: info@tilponline.org, Web: http://www.tilponline.org

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AppTek, a developer of human language technology, has added Farsi and Urdu automated speech recognition (ASR) engines to its PlainSpeech platform. The enhanced ASR engine also processes several other languages such as Arabic and English, and is compatible for use with machine translation.

AppTek, E-mail: info@apptek.com, Web: http://www.apptek.com

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Milengo Ltd., a provider of translation and related localization services, has integrated the Google Translator Toolkit within its operating platform to translate multilingual AdWords campaigns for its customers.

Milengo Ltd., E-mail: contact@milengo.com, Web: http://www.milengo.com

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Xisen Science Technology, a web and software development solution provider, has introduced the Magic Multilingual Dictionary 2.0 for iPhone/iPod Touch. The application combines six complete dictionaries: English>Korean, Korean>English, Chinese>Korean, Korean>Chinese, Japanese>Korean and Korean>Japanese.

Xisen Science Technology, E-mail: support@xisensoft.com, Web: http://www.xisensoft.com

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Global Databases Ltd., a developer of software solutions for automating multilingual documentation production, has updated its CrossCheck online quality checking service. The service works with all languages based on the Latin alphabet plus Greek, Russian and Bulgarian. In addition to standard translation memory files it also performs quality assurance of PDF files.

Global Databases Limited, E-mail: info@doc3.com, Web: http://www.doc3.com

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Wordbee S.A., a translation software company, has launched a web-based client portal service as a new feature of its Wordbee Translator, an online computer-assisted translation and management platform.

Wordbee S.A., E-mail: info@wordbee.com, Web: http://www.wordbee.com

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ForeignExchange Translations, Inc., will hold a one-day workshop on June 29, 2010, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. The workshop — World-class translation management: from vendor selection to in-country review — features Inna Geller, former senior localization operations manager for Medtronic, covering topics such as vendor selection, setting up translation process best practices, collecting quality metrics and in-country review.

ForeignExchange Translations, Inc., E-mail: info@fxtrans.com, Web: http://www.fxtrans.com

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Locordia Communications, a provider of language services, has been selected as a translation partner for The Thomson Reuters Awards for Excellence. The awards are organized in more than 23 countries, recognizing the world's top analysts, brokerages, buy-side firms, funds and investor relations teams.

Locordia Communications, E-mail: info@locordia.com, Web: http://www.locordia.com

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WebCertain, a multilingual search marketing agency, has partnered with IMN, a content-driven e-mail marketing solutions provider, to offer an international, search engine optimization-friendly e-communications service for international organizations.

WebCertain, E-mail: advice@webcertain.com, Web: http://www.webcertain.com

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Language Connect, a provider of translation and interpretation services, has been awarded a contract by Guy's and St Thomas‚ NHS Foundation Trust to provide face-to-face interpreting and written translation services.

Language Connect, E-mail: info@languageconnect.net, Web: http://www.languageconnect.net

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Net-Translators Ltd., a provider of translation and localization services, and Multilingual QA Ltd., a provider of localization testing services, have merged to expand a combined language services portfolio worldwide.

Net-Translators Ltd., E-mail: sales@net-translators.com, Web: http://www.net-translators.com

Multilingual QA Ltd., E-mail: sales@multilingualqa.com, Web: http://www.multilingualqa.com

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MultiCorpora R&D Inc., a software language technology provider, has integrated Translated S.r.l.'s MyMemory, a multilingual collaborative search engine for translations, into MultiTrans, an enterprise language technology software solution.

MultiCorpora R&D Inc., E-mail: info@multicorpora.com, Web: http://www.multicorpora.com

Translated S.r.l., E-mail: info@translated.net, Web: http://www.translated.net

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TransAction Translators, a provider of translation and interpreting services, was selected by CPN to translate its website to Hindi. CPN specializes in garment decoration through print.

TransAction Translators Limited, E-mail: transaction@transaction.co.uk, Web: http://www.transaction.co.uk

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Cogen sa, a provider of translation and multilingual publishing services, is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary. The company focuses on providing multilingual product documentation for the manufacturers of industrial equipment and of medical devices.

Cogen sa, E-mail: info@cogen.com, Web: http://www.cogen.com

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