Apr. 1987 |
Founded NOVA Inc., a software development company and forerunner. |
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Oct. 1989 |
Released Transer, English to Japanese translation software for UNIX Workstation. |
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Nov. 1991 |
Released PC-Transer/ej, the first English to Japanese translation software for PC-98 computers. |
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May, 1998 |
Founded NOVA Asia Inc., a sales company. |
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Apr. 2001 |
Launched human translation projects. |
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Jan. 2002 |
Released WEB-Transer@Enterprise, an in-house translation server. |
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Oct. 2002 |
A merger of equals between NOVA Asia Inc. and NOVA Inc., renamed to become Cross Language Inc. |
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Sept. 2004 |
Released WEB-Transer@SDK, a translation API system. |
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Feb. 2005 |
Yahoo! Japan adopted translation API and launched Yahoo translator. |
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Jun. 2006 |
Rakuten adopted translation API and launched Infoseek multi-translator. |
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Apr. 2008 |
So-net adopted translation API and launched So-net translation. |
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Jun. 2009 |
Launched WEB-Transer@homepage, a homepage translation service. |
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Sept. 2009 |
Rakuten's Global Market adopted WEB-Transer@SDK |
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Nov. 2011 |
Launched WEB-Transer@homepage direct, an overseas contents distribution service. |
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Dec. 2011 |
Launched 365 Honyaku, an internet translation service. |
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Apr. 2012 |
Received translation requests from the Japan Tourism Agency and National Tax Agency |
Sept. 2012 | Launched Facebook admin services including monitoring and managing |
Oct. 2012 | Received requests from the Patent Office to translate Chinese patents |
Nov. 2012 | Announced Chinese patent translating engine |
Apr. 2013 | Moved head office to Kioicho Park Bldg., 3-6 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku |
Nov. 2014 | Provided translation engine for RICOH Document Translation Service, RICOH's machine translating service. |
Jan. 2015 | Providing a translation engine for the "Chinese and Korean Gazette Translation and Search System" for patent offices developed by Hitachi, Ltd.. |
Aug. 2015 | Absorption-type merger with ITAS Inc., a translation company |
Sept. 2015 | Provided translation engine to Samurai Japan's official website, the Japanese national baseball team. |
Jul. 2016 | Released a Japanese-Thai bidirectional machine translation system |
Aug. 2016 | Opened new office in Kansai |
October, 2017 | Free translation page "CROSS-Transer"service starts |
January, 2018 | We add AI translation neural translation function (beta release) to free translation site "CROSS-Transer" |
February, 2019 | We start new Internet translation service "simple translation" |