The European Commission's PSD II bill looks to standardise e-commerce procedures throughout the EU, highlighting some of the manners in which member states approach spending. When representatives from 28 different European nations delegate, day-to-day dealings in Brussels' European institutions often present a series of cultural obstacles.
English Premier League club Manchester City will be able to reach 80 per cent of the world's Internet population in more than 160 countries as it launches what it claims to be the broadest multilingual website offering in football. Manchester City's official website was previously only offered in English, Arabic, and Mandarin Chinese.
Today Translations was honoured to be invited to join HRH Prince Charles, the Colonel-in-Chief of the Parachute Regiment and members of the four Para battalions for the Afghanistan Trust summer fundraising dinner on Wednesday 10th July 2013. Today Translations have the greatest of respect for the Afghanistan Trust and those who work so tirelessly to support the cause such as Aga Man, Peter Digby who we reported on ahead of the London Marathon.
At the beginning of June this year, an Ernst & Young survey into Scottish growth claimed that that the level foreign investment in the country is at a 15-year high.
The chief editor of The Lithuania Tribune, Ruslanas Iržikevičius, talked to Jurga Žilinskienė, entrepreneur and founder of London-based "Today Translations", during the World Lithuanian Economic Forum that took place in Vilnius in June. The Lithuania Tribune (TLT): Lithuania is a country where Russian is spoken very well, but do you see a turning point in with English becoming the second most popular language in Lithuania.
Where there is history in the making, micro-blogging platform Twitter always seems to be close by. Last week, as demonstrations in Egypt broke out, Twitter introduced a new service that automatically translated updates coming from some of the country's most politically influential and most followed users, including ousted president Mohamed Morsi, opposition leader Mohamed El Baradei and the Egyptian representation to the United Nations.
David Clarke is Today Translations' Translation Security Assurance Officer and a trustee of the UK's independent fraud watchdog, the Fraud Advisory Panel (FAP). For a down to earth view on what the economic downturn means for you as a potential victim of fraud, take a look at the annual review published by the FAP. Let us be clear, we are living in a period of great uncertainty and face dangers that rival those of the 1930s and the Great Depression.
After yesterday's "Murraycle" comeback at Wimbledon against Fernando Verdasco, Andy Murray remains the last Brit standing to take the top tennis prize. While he's a fierce opponent on the courts, he admits to not being in the same league as his rivals when it comes to one thing: conversing in different languages. Although he lived in Spain for two years, Murray never picked up the language.
We here at Today Translations are saddened to hear news of the possible closure of the modern languages and linguistics courses at the University of Salford's School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Sciences. Salford has made the decision in order to "secure the future of the University" and ensure that the institution can "benefit students in areas that are in demand with employers."
If you want to understand the sentence "Just went kitty-corner to spend my toonie on a double double" then you've come to the right place. Canada has an incredibly rich linguistic culture, with two official languages, English and French, and a population with over 200 mother tongues, including Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi, and Spanish - but with a bit of Canadian slang thrown in.
