Babylon Celebrates International Translation Day 2012
NEW YORK, September 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Today Babylon [http://www.babylon.com ] is celebrating International Translation Day.
The Company marks the event with "Babylon is the One for Me"
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MemcU4Zne0s ] - a collection clip of fan-made videos from
users all over the world, sharing why Babylon is their #1 translation tool.
Babylon's mission is to connect people around the world by enabling them to
understand, communicate and search for information using multiple languages. Babylon
provides translations in 77 languages - from commonly spoken languages, such as Spanish,
German English and French, to less familiar languages such as Hausa, Faeroese, Tamazight,
Pashto and Basque.
"With a current presence in 228 territories, we aim to bring quality, feature rich
translations to users all around the world," says VP of Marketing and Sales, Liat
Sade-Sternberg. "Babylon's translation tools were designed to satisfy the Company's highly
varied user base" she continued, "with a user friendly product design, large selection of
add-on features, and extensive selection of languages"
Babylon's translation database contains over 1,600 dictionaries and professional
glossaries. The Company received 2.1 billion translations requests in the first half of
2012. It provides 100 million term translations per day and is currently the most
downloaded translation software.
Babylon.com [http://www.babylon.com ] is a publicly traded company, founded in 1997.
The Company is the leading provider of online translation software [http://www.babylon.com
] and services as well as a leading provider of Search solutions. With over 150 million
users in 228 territories, and translations between 77 languages, Babylon.com
[http://babylon.com ] has set the Guinness World Record(TM) for Most Downloads of a
Translation Software [http://www.babylon.com/products/babylon ]. The Company is listed
among the top 25 websites worldwide, as rated by Alexa.com [http://alexa.com ].