When delegates gathered at the LocWorld conference in the Clayton hotel on Burlington Road a few weeks ago, a deal was brewing with one of the sector’s flagship companies. The conference gathered together companies from the translation and localisation industry, providing everything from language translations and subtitling to localising software for individual regions. One of the banner players in that industry is Keywords Studios, the Dublin-based games services company that is being snapped up by Swedish private equity firm EQT for a premium price tag of €2.5 billion. The deal has been the talk of the sector. However, even with…

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