Smartling: Crowdsourced Post-Editing at its Finest

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.”

Finance and Economics Blogs I Read

The following blogs don’t deal with translation, but I really feel I have to plug them because of the many hours of enjoyment they provide:

The Freakonomics blog should by now not need much of an introduction. Dubner and Levitt recently launched a really great podcast.