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...full-time staff members and 10,000 freelancers in 25 countries, with a current market cap of $350 million. Lionbridge, based in Massachusetts, translates technology for mobile-phone companies and clients such as McDonald's, Google and Yahoo!. "Computer code is code," says Lionbridge chief marketing officer Kevin Bolen. "But certain things such as metrics, time stamps and characters have to be re-engineered and hard-encoded into the software to display Japanese kanji, for instance...
Lionbridge and its competitors recruit at universities and industry websites such as linguistlist.org with specialists of all stripes in demand, from automotive experts to those with a knack for medical jargon. "India has about a dozen dialects needed to capture a substantial customer base, says Bolen, "so for Nokia we're translating applications and phones and instructions in nine different ways...
Thanks to the Web, new companies become global from the get-go rather than at a later phase, Bolen explains. And localization companies don't just deal in words but also the look, feel and design of text images. "We ask if buttons and keys scale to match the size of the text," he says, noting German characters are 30% longer than those in English, while those in Japanese are 30% shorter...
...Caudill's notion: 12,481 of the county's 44,362 residents claim some sort of disability. If coal miners gave OxyContin its start in southwestern Virginia, injured steelworkers were among the first to use it in eastern Ohio, where its illicit use remains a serious problem, says Jennifer Bolen, a former federal prosecutor in Tennessee who advises physicians around the country on the laws governing the prescription of potent painkillers...
...don’t know what just happened,” Bolen said apologetically into her microphone. “A little lack of communication,” Stollsteimer explained after returning a moment later, smiling slyly as the audience laughed at his allusion. The rest of the show ran smoothly, if that word can even be used to describe the Bondies’ arsenal of fiery rock ’n roll tunes: Stollsteimer’s Otis Redding-influenced howl bellowing over surging currents of guitar, bass and drums...