According to a survey of school children in London, the City's residents speak over 300 languages from around the world. On the other hand, China has more language graduates per year than any other country. So the question is, what makes London the 'capital of languages?'
The case of two corporations in China tells an interesting story of two quite different approaches to localisation.
On 22nd July 2015, our Advisory Board Member David Clarke, the former head of the City of London Police fraud squad, founder of the UK National Fraud Intelligence Bureau and Today Translations’ special advisor on security explores the dilemma of making a disclosure of cyber-crime/incident to the authorities.
James Ibori, the former petty thief who became governor of Delta state in Nigeria and one of the country’s richest men, is estimated to have stolen over $250m of Nigerian public funds. He laundered swathes of his ill-gotten gains through London before he was prosecuted in the UK and sent to jail for 13 years in 2012.
Good for those big players with their data-driven automated solutions - they can boast about their huge revenues driven by email marketing or other marketing campaigns. But what do you do if you are a small business, do not have any BIG data or money for super smart solutions and still want to begin with something? The answer is - start with one of the cheapest means of marketing - email marketing. Below is a cheat-list for improving your campaign or at least move it in the right direction.
The City of London Police have warned the public of the risks of falling victim to one of the many investment scams operated by bogus businesses that try to add a veil of respectability by working from prestigious offices in London. Criminals are believed to have stolen more than £1.73 billion from 5,252 victims last year based on crimes reported to the police last year and this figure may be even higher.
COBCOE, the Council of British Chambers of Commerce in Europe, has awarded Today Translations with one of its two new Make Europe Work!® business awards.
Ignorantia juris non excusat, Latin for ignorance of the law does not excuse, is something of an ancient catch-all rule that has served society well for centuries and we can thank the Romans for including it on their list of enduring legacies.
If you ask Jurga Zilinskiene our founder and computer coding entrepreneur CEO: what was the key turning point for her in business? She will say with electrically charged enthusiasm, Shell LiveWIRE!.Established in 1982, the Shell LiveWire programme has become the UKs largest online community that recognises and rewards young entrepreneurs and provides them with free advice and funding.
The increasingly accelerating trend towards the digital workstation has seen Today Translations embrace the concept of the ‘paperless’ office.This isn’t just to be hip and modern.
