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The global information management solutions provider SDL has announced its preliminary results for 2005. With clients such as Chrysler Group, Honda, AMD, France Telecom and Siemens Medical, SDL had revenue of £78,479,000 in 2005.
The acquirement of Trados (in July 2005, for £35.0 million) doesn’t seem to have affected SDL’s budget. Furthermore, they reported an increase of 25% over last year (£7,169,000 before tax and amortization of intangible).
The ones interested in more specific details could take a look here: http://www.sdl.com/company/press-releases-sdl/press-release-sdl.htm?id=43

Advanced International Translations has recently released ClipCount (Clipboard Word Count and Character Count Software) - , a new software for the automation of text count tasks. Coming as an addition to AnyCount, ClipCount enables the user to count words, characters and lines in clipboard, in real-time, from any program, by typing a keyboard shortcut. The utility comes as a bonus to all current and future AnyCount users.
For more information about the product you can visit this page - http://www.translation3000.com/ .

MultiLing Corporation was founded in 1988 in Utah. With translation centres in over 30 countries, MultiLing provides translation, localisation and globalisation services and translation technology to customers world-wide.
The rapidly expanding corporation acquired LocaliZe-IT, a German translation company, on February 1st in Munich. The new European offices will enable MultiLing to better assist its customers and, at the same time, will position it to further expand into Asia.
MultiLing’s new German headquarters (MultiLing Deutschland GmbH) will feature state-of-the-art conferencing technologies as well as the company’s own revolutionary in-house translation software known as Fortis. This software should be released commercially later this year.

ASK translation services acquired The Total Translation Company Ltd on February 1st. With offices in the Netherlands, Frankfurt and New York, The Total Translation Company Ltd has greatly contributed to the national and international expansion of East Anglia-based company ASK.
The managing director of ASK declared that this million pound deal is supposed to quadruple ASK’s Bury St Edmunds-based workforce over the next three years.
He is convinced that the combined resources of the two translation agencies would help the recently created company meet the needs of every marketing sector.

QuickCount is a word counting and invoicing tool available at no charge to Translatorsbase.com and Directfreelance.com members. This tool was released by VerbumSoft (a provider of freelance translator software tools) and is directed to translators who base their quotations and invoices on the number of words, characters, lines or pages. QuickCount works with a variety of file types, from Microsoft Word to RTF, Microsoft Excel, XML and many more. It provides configurable statistics for each file - file name, file type, number of words, lines, pages, total charge amount etc.