Right after tax season in the United States last year we received the following message from the president of a language service provider:
“A couple months ago we were notified that because we issued a 1099 to a Texas freelancer, we must file Texas Franchise Tax reports (for the last 7 years) and pay the tax. (more…)
What are the best practices for going global with direct marketing? We led the Direct Marketing Association’s Fundamentals of International Marketing seminar along with the DMA’s Charles Prescott and WorldVu’s Merry Law. ...
Last week, Language Line Services announced the results of its latest forum on medical interpreter certification. Switching things up from last year’s Boston location, the event took place on the opposite side of the country in Portland, Oregon, one of a growing number of states with formal programs for medical interpreter certification. As usual, when [...] ...
While there is no evidence yet online, Google has announced its Translate tool will now support Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Malayalam, the most widely spoken languages on the sub-continent. Google search has been available for some time in 5 Indic languages, as well as sprinkling of other functions, such as posting text scraps in [...] ...
New concepts are entering the language services world and, as it often happens in transition periods, terminology to describe them is getting blurred.
We have discussed the topic of collaboration extensively at Common Sense Advisory, and we cover these terms in this posting. ...