1. The High Cost of Cheap Translation: Why You Shouldn’t Skimp When Leaping the Language Barrier

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    August 3, 2016 by atacompass

    You pay for the best product development and manufacturing. Your legal and administrative people are top-notch. You choose your advertising …
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    Category: Buying Interpreting Services, Buying Translations, Machine Translation, Translation Quality, Uncategorized

  2. 5 Tips for Taking Your Business Global

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    July 19, 2016 by atacompass

    The Coca-Cola Company is the leading beverage maker in China’s $69 billion soft drink market, but the story might have …
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    Category: Uncategorized

  3. Don’t Get Lost in Translation. Get It Right!

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    June 14, 2016 by atacompass

    We’ve all seen them: eyebrow-raising “translations” that leave you either shaking your head or slapping your knee. Just ask Google …
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    Category: Advertising, Buying Interpreting Services, Buying Translations, Case Studies, Healthcare, Legal Translation, Uncategorized

  4. Automation Doesn’t Solve Everything: Six Things You Should Know About Machine Translation

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    June 6, 2016 by atacompass

    Taco Bell’s return to Japan in 2015 was widely anticipated, but the company’s launch of its Japanese-language website spawned a …
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    Category: Advertising, Buying Interpreting Services, Buying Translations, Machine Translation, Technical Translation, Translation Quality, Uncategorized, Websites

  5. What is a Certified Translation?

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    May 25, 2016 by atacompass

    In the United States a certified translation consists of the following three parts: 1)       The source-language (original) text 2)       The …
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    Category: Buying Translations, Certification | Tags: , ,

  6. Hello, world! Quality website translation is your entry pass to a global market

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    May 1, 2016 by atacompass

    What stands between your business and world domination? Language, for one. Whatever your native language is, most of the world …
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  7. Transcreation: translating and recreating

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    April 20, 2016 by atacompass

    Sometimes translating a text isn’t enough: you need more than just a copy of the original text in another language, …
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    Category: Advertising, Transcreation | Tags: ,

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