Verbling brings immersive language learning into your living room (exclusive)

April 19, 2013 9:20 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Editor's Pick Y Combinator-backed Verbling is a platform that connects people online to practice speaking foreign languages together. Today, the startup introduced Verbling Courses, a new product that seeks to make students proficient as quickly as possible.

Makers of Android keyboard SwiftKey get $2.4M for language technology

December 7, 2011 6:05 AM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

TouchType Ltd., which makes a clever keyboard app for Android phones, is on the verge of expansion.

The London-based company raised a $2.4 million round of funding led by Octopus Investments, it announced today.

TouchType’s app, SwiftKey X, replaces the …

สวัสดี, Foursquare! Checkin app adds five new languages

September 7, 2011 11:29 AM Regina Sinsky
Regina Sinsky

By adding five new languages, location-based social network Foursquare has opened the door to 1.5 billion more users. The company launched translations of its app in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Thai, it said today on its blog,

Foursquare …

Smartling makes translation affordable with $10M in funding

July 27, 2011 4:58 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

The Internet is an international place. You can be in India on one page and Brazil the next. However, translation can be costly for small content publishers. Translation software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, Smartling, wants to change that.

The service works like …