Babylon.com Announces: Babylon in Every School - As of Today K-12 Educational Institutes are Entitled to Enjoy Babylon Dictionary and Translation Solutions for Free

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Babylon Ltd., the world's leading provider of language learning solutions and single-click dictionary and translation software, announced today that it has initiated 'Babylon in Every School' - a donation program for schools worldwide, whereby it will donate its software to all K-12 educational institutions so that every child will have access to Babylon's wide variety of languages, dictionaries and resources.

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"Our solutions bridge the gap of languages for more than 80 million people worldwide," said Alon Carmeli, Babylon's CEO. "Our generation's mission is to leverage the Internet and technology in order to make it a better world for the younger generation. Bridging the language barriers improves communication and knowledge. We believe that Babylon's project will help today's youth become tomorrow's leaders."

Contributing to education is extremely meaningful to Babylon as this will not only deliver the world to the children, but the children will have the opportunity to express themselves and explore the world.

To join the 'Babylon in Every School' program, please visit http://www.babylon.com/k12-program.html or contact Dalia Preisler [email protected].

Babylon's dictionary and translation software offers results from over 1,500 sources in 75 different languages, provides access to premium dictionaries and encyclopedias from the world's most distinguished publishing houses, such as Oxford, Britannica, Merriam Webster, Pons, Duden, Larousse, and many more.  

In addition, Babylon provides full text and Web page translation in 33 languages and delivers results in over 25 languages from Wikipedia.org.

About Babylon Ltd.

Babylon.com is a publicly traded company that was founded in 1997. The Company is a leading provider of language solutions such as online dictionary and translation software, language learning solutions, English writing enhancement and more. The Babylon.com user base exceeds 80 million desktop installations in more than 200 countries.

For more information about Babylon, visit http://www.babylon.com.

SOURCE Babylon