Technology is only as good as its designers and its users. How good are the crowdsourced post-editing (CPE) companies scooping up venture capital in Silicon Valley? Well… It appears to be getting easier and easier to capitalize on the social media bubble to score some easy VC cash. A company called Smartling recently raised 10 million cool ones “to ramp up its localization tools.” The investors include “U.S. Venture Partners, Venrock and First Round Capital,” which “have all chipped in for the series B funding round and are joined by IDG Ventures.”
A dose of skepticism to guard against localization hype,
courtesy of Miguel Llorens, a Spanish-English financial translator
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Smartling: Crowdsourced Post-Editing at its Finest
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computer assisted translation,
crowdsourcing,
finance and economics blogs,
Smartling,
social media bubble,
translation quality,
venture capital
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