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Gengo integrates with Magento to localize ECommerce websites

Issam Zeibak — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:17:48 +0000

If you run an online store, there’s a good chance you’re using Magento. There are currently over 150,000 websites that use Magento’s powerful open-source ECommerce solutions, including brands like The North Face, Olympus and Nike. By integrating with mega ECommerce channels like Amazon, Rakuten and Ebay, Magento has made it easy for its users to [...]

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New Gengo plugin powers Drupal websites in 36 languages

Issam Zeibak — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:25:59 +0000

With about 1,000,000 installations, including Twitter, The Economist, and even the White House, Drupal has become an extremely popular CMS, especially with global audiences. So we’re very happy to announce that there’s now a way to translate content within Drupal. The TMGMT plugin built by MD Systems allows you to order Gengo translations, all within the [...]

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Easy and Powerful Localization via PhraseApp

Robert Laing — Mon, 27 May 2013 03:08:48 +0000

PhraseApp is a new translation management system for developers, founded in 2012 and based in Hamburg, Germany. Their aim is to make it simple, fast and reliable to localize an app or website into multiple languages. We love seeing innovative startups in the translation space like PhraseApp, and now their solution is even more powerful, [...]

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Gengons run 45 km “Yamathon” around Tokyo, everyone survives

Natalia Manidis — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:15:45 +0000

Gengo’s Tokyo team took to the streets last week and pushed through a 45 km ‘Yamathon’ around the city. The teams met at 6am and endured the bad weather, blisters and cramps to make a full loop around Tokyo following the Yamanote train line, stopping for pictures at each of the 29 stations. Money raised [...]

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Gengo Raises $12MM, led by Intel Capital

Robert Laing — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:36:48 +0000

I’m very happy to announce that Gengo has recently raised a Series B investment of US$12 million. The investment was led by Intel Capital, included our Series A investors Atomico, and also included Iris Capital, Singapore-based Infocomm, Japan’s NTT-IP, and STCV (Saudi Telecom). Gengo enjoyed a successful 2012, is operating in a vibrant and growing [...]

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Webinar: Best Practices for Video Translation

Seiya Vogt — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:21:49 +0000

Last month we announced our partnership with 3Play Media, the video caption and transcription specialists. Today we want to share a webinar we co-hosted with 3Play Media on the Best Practices for Video Translation. This webinar covers how to translate your video, engage with an international audience, and some video SEO strategies. For more detail [...]

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We’ve Partnered with 3Play Media to Make Video Translation Simple

Robert Laing — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:00:31 +0000

Ever wondered how to make your videos globally accessible, searchable, and SEO friendly? It’s traditionally been hard to do: you’d have to work with a number of different vendors to get transcriptions, at quite a high cost, and the process used to be pretty clumsy. But now, Cambridge-based 3Play Media offers a world-class solution for [...]

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Three Free White Papers to Help You Go Global

Robert Laing — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:24:25 +0000

We’re big fans of companies who decide to go global. But we’ll never kid you that it’s a piece of cake. We work with a large number of mid-size businesses and enterprises, who are taking the leap of international expansion for the first time. Some do great, others have difficulties as they expand across borders. [...]

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Translator Performance Scorecards, Better Job Allocation

Natalia Manidis — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:33:28 +0000

Today we’re announcing big changes to the way we assess performance, share information and allocate jobs. Some of these are features you’ve asked for; others will help our customers as Gengo grows. We think you’ll be excited. Performance Scorecard Your dashboard now features a personalized scorecard showing your performance as a Gengo translator. The scorecard [...]

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Gengo ports GitHub Survivor to JIRA

Shawn Smith — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:28:22 +0000

At Gengo, we’re passionate about open source as well as squashing bugs in our codebase. That’s why when we read about the 99designs project, GitHub Survivor, we knew our engineers had to have it. The problem was we use Atlassian JIRA to track our issues, and GitHub Survivor was designed for GitHub issues. But that [...]

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