SlatorPod #3! Florian Faes and Esther Bond discuss London localization meet-ups, the European Parliament’s giant Translation Directorate’s EUR 60m translation award, Amazon hiring new media localizers, and the scorecard of the handful of publicly listed language service providers. Esther talks about the January reading of the Slator Language Industry Job Index and Florian plucks Amazon’s new batch translation and two other stories featured in this week’s SlatorSweep. Then the two do some crystal ball gazing and make predictions for 2020 language industry M&A and startup funding as well as trends in MT, and talk about their Q1 conference speaking schedule.Links to the stories discussed in this episode:EU Awards EUR 63 Million in Translation Contracts to Kick Off 2020https://slator.com/deal-wins/eu-awards-eur-63-million-in-translation-contracts-to-kick-off-2020/Slator Language Industry Buyer Tracker January 2020https://slator.com/people-moves/slator-language-industry-buyer-tracker-january-2020/Ranking and Analysis: 2019 Full-Year Performance of Listed Language Service Providershttps://slator.com/financial-results/ranking-and-analysis-2019-full-year-performance-of-listed-language-service-providers/Slator Job Index Edges Down Slightly in January 2020https://slator.com/industry-news/slator-job-index-edges-down-slightly-in-january-2020/What It Takes to Be a Lawyer-Linguist at the European Unionhttps://slator.com/features/what-it-takes-to-be-a-lawyer-linguist-at-the-european-union/Subscribe to SlatorSweep and SlatorPro herehttps://slator.com/slator-market-intelligence