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The Avantpage “Bridge” — Why It Represents our Mission and Vision
At Avantpage, we're much more than just a translation company. We provide translation, localization, interpretation, language technology and much more - all with a unique sensitivity to other cultures, ethnic markets and foreign entities. Our documents and multimedia...
Avantpage’s MBE Status: What Does That Mean, Exactly?
Are you aware that Avantpage is a minority-owned business? We are proud of our MBE status, and today I'd like to take just a moment to expand on that a bit ... What is an MBE? An MBE - Minority-owned Business Enterprise - is defined as a for-profit business which is...
What The World Cup Means to Your Business
Unless you've been traveling somewhere extremely remote where there's no radio, television, newspapers, magazines, podcasts, or Internet, you've no doubt seen - or heard - part of a FIFA World Cup soccer game from South Africa over the past four weeks. It all wrapped...
AltaMed Ranked #1 Hispanic Non-profit Corporation by Expenditures
Congratulations to our client, California-based AltaMed Health Services Corp.! HISPANIC BUSINESS Magazine has ranked it as the number one nonprofit in the nation based on spending in service to Hispanics. "Since 1969, the organization has provided health services to...
Thoughts on Machine Translation
Being a technologist myself, I always look to the advances our scientists and engineers make with awe and wonder. As a society, we owe much to them. I also know better than to give absolutes like "Machine translation will never replace human translators". Human...
Creating a Multicultural Marketing Program
This past weekend I had a great opportunity to spend time at NYU in a course through their School of Continuing and Professional Studies. I gathered with a small group of other professionals talking about ethnic marketing and ways to reach multicultural communities....