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QA on Request Launches New Crowdsourced Testing Platform, Enters Wayra

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Montreal, Canada (PRWEB) May 30, 2013

Montreal startup QA on Request announces that it has launched a new crowdsourced testing platform and entered Wayra, Telefonica’s global accelerator.

Wayra provides selected startups with $ 50,000 in financing, as well as technical and managerial support. The news comes as QA on Request closes the chapter on its six-month participation in Start-Up Chile, a similar initiative funded by the Chilean government.

“Telefonica obviously selects companies with very high growth potential, but specifically companies developing innovative solutions that can cater to its partners in Europe and Latin America” says Simon Papineau, the company’s CEO. “We are very optimistic about the business possibilities resulting of our participation in Wayra.”

Crowdsourced testing: innovation in software testing

QA on Request has recently launched a crowdsourcing platform dedicated to software testing known as the Crowdsourced Testing company.

“Software testing is a pain for developers” explains Papineau, the company’s 29 years old founder. “It is time-consuming, difficult to manage and highly irregular. The industry was in dire need of innovation.”

The young founder certainly knows what he is talking about: at 23, he managed one of Gameloft’s video game development studios in Argentina. He later co-founded we+are interactive, a web and mobile development company known for its work on Radio-Canada’s Tou.tv Android application, SidLee’s website in HTML5 and several award-winning websites such as Du Big Bang au Vivant, based on the documentary with Hubert Reeves.

“Our crowdsourced software testing platform helps developers streamline their quality assurance testing process while expanding the number of devices and operating systems that their products are tested on. It is truly a breath of fresh air in an industry facing many challenges related to software testing due to the growing number of internet-ready devices in the world.”

About QA on Request

Founded in 2011, QA on Request provides quality assurance testing services to web and software development companies. The company was a part of Start-up Chile’s fifth cohort, as well as a finalist in the 2011 Angel Investors Challenge and a recipient of the Young Entrepreneur grant.

For more information about QA on Request and the Crowdsourced Testing company, visit: http://crowdsourcedtesting.com







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FPgirl Celebrates Everlasting Friendship with Crowdsourced Necklace

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Beverly, Massachusetts (PRWEB) April 16, 2013

FPgirl by FashionPlaytes (http://www.fashionplaytes.com), the first girl driven fashion and style destination, has introduced the Infinity Charm Necklace, winner of FPgirl’s recent BFF design contest and newest crowdsourced addition to the FPgirl site. The winning design, which features a classic chain necklace with the words “best friends” decoratively written in an infinity sign, was chosen out of hundreds of submissions by the FPgirl community and is an exciting style statement representing the unbreakable bond between best friends.

“With so much attention currently focused on how fashion brands are influencing young girls, contests like this let our FPgirls take control and express their individuality through the clothing and accessories they design themselves,” said Sarah McIlroy, founder and president of FashionPlaytes. “This BFF contest—where designs were created and voted on by our FPgirls—is just one way our site allows girls to unleash their creativity.”

Girls were invited to submit a BFF design that could be added to clothing or accessories during a recent FPgirl Design Contest. Over 750 entries were submitted and then voted on by the FPgirl community to decide the winner. The Infinity Charm Necklace is now available on the FPgirl site and makes the perfect gift for any best friend.

As the latest addition to the FPgirl site, the Infinity Charm Necklace joins an already colorful and eye-catching accessories line. Girls can dress up their self-designed clothing with charm bracelets, necklaces, barrettes and Hair Flings™, all available with 125 charms to mix-and-match.

About FashionPlaytes and FPgirl:

FashionPlaytes is the creator of FPgirl.com, the online fashion and style destination where girls are designers and set the trends. The FPgirl community is filled with vibrant, talented, and supportive girls who create cool custom clothing, crowd-source designs, and share their insights about what it’s like to be a girl in today’s world. FashionPlaytes celebrates all girls, providing a fun, safe, interactive environment. Its engagement-driven ecommerce platform is fueled by girls, for girls, making it the go-to place for all things fashion related.







Translia.com Offers Support for Crowd-Sourced Game Translation and Localization

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Hong Kong, CN (PRWEB) May 14, 2013

Translia.com offers cost-effective game localization services that enable developers to enlist the support of their own user base to make their games available in many different languages around the world. It means that developers no longer have to rely on translation agencies or game localization companies that both are more expensive than crowd-sourcing translation services and with limited resources are more likely to take a longer time. Translia.com’s game localization and translation services offer developers the chance to both control their costs and to make their games available in a wide degree of languages as quickly as possible. This will enable them to reach previously untapped markets for their games around the world.

Increasingly, game developers and publishers seeking to market their games to multilingual audiences have been recognizing the value of an untapped resource that can aid in game localization: their own community of users. Even games that are published only in English can attract a user base from around the world due to the widespread knowledge and usage of the English language. What developers realize is that however effective game localization vendors or translation companies are at their work at the end of the day they are going to charge more and be less involved with the product then the company’s own users. This is why game developers have sought to crowd-source translation services.

When a company makes the decision to rely on their own user base to translate their games, they need to do several vital tasks. They need to assemble a group of dedicated multilingual users who are fluent in the target language, and they also need to have a system for managing the translation process.

This is where Translia.com’s collaborative translation offerings come in. Translia.com offers a power patent-pending collaborative translation platform that allows game developers and publishers to organize their translators and implement the workflow of the game localization and translation process. This streamlined workflow can ensure that the work is completed as quickly and efficiently as possible, with multiple translators working on the job at the same time, greatly accelerating the speed of the turnaround cycle.

The Translia collaborative platform offers many features including ease of ability to post work, communication tools, community resource management, as well as the ability to calculate the compensation for translators, whether it is cash, in-game rewards, prepaid game cards, or a combination of all of them. Translia.com’s revolutionary platform allows developers to quickly and efficiently market their games in numerous different languages around the world.

Translia.com was founded in 2009 and is located off of Hong Kong, China. They are an online translating company that focuses on providing accurate and timely translation for their clients. They are a privately owned company and are growing as a successful online translating service. They re-launched in March 2013, and now offer a ton of new features and benefits.







NeuroTrax Invites APA Meeting Attendees to Help Create Insight, the Worlds First Online, Crowd-Sourced Cognitive Testing Service

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San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) May 19, 2013

Reliable and practical office-based measurement of cognitive function has become critical for healthcare and disease management programs involving psychiatric and neurological disease. NeuroTrax Corporation, a pioneer in web-based cognitive assessment since 2000, is creating a next-generation service to help healthcare practitioners and organizations to more quickly and accurately assess cognitive status.

From its booth (#847) at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association this week in San Francisco, NeuroTrax will be conducting a specialized survey to tap-in to the impressive “brain power” and experience of the more than 13,000 psychiatrists, neurologists and other professionals expected to attend the event from all over the world.

Using results from the survey, along with a strong scientific foundation of 70 peer-reviewed articles developed over years for its popular MindStreams service (http://www.neurotrax.com), NeuroTrax will complete the development of Insight™, a suite of services for evaluation of conditions ranging from memory complaints common to the elderly, to adolescent/adult attention issues.

Planned for international release later this year, Insight will be the world’s first online cognitive testing service to provide professional data review reports from trained cognitive testing experts.

Insight is designed to deliver accurate, valid cognitive functioning assessments, providing a comprehensive brain health report across multiple cognitive domains. Administered in a medical office setting with only minimal supervision required, the test is designed for patients of a wide age range, with or without prior computer experience. Test results, along with a professional report from a cognitive expert, are expediently generated by the service.

“Over the years, we have seen an increased awareness of the importance of obtaining a clear snapshot of the patient’s cognitive status as an important extension of the neurological examination. However, too many patients with complaints of poor memory or difficulty concentrating do not have access to quality testing,” said Ely Simon, M.D., a board certified neurologist and creator of Insight. “By combing the results from our survey, new technology, and a body of science and research developed over many years, we aim to create a new generation of readily accessible cognitive testing and expert reporting, which will benefit practitioners and their patients.”

ABOUT NEUROTRAX

NeuroTrax Corporation was founded in 2000, driven by the vision of elevating the standard of patient care. The company delivers quality cognitive testing products and services to the medical community. With careful attention to cutting edge technology and critical scientific studies, NeuroTrax has succeeded in leading the way in this growing field. To learn more, please visit us online at http://www.neurotrax.com.