Babylon is the leading provider of single-click information retrieval and translation services.

In 1997 the company launched the Babylon translator - a dictionary application that delivers translations and information to the user's desktop in a single click. Babylon gives users access to 25 dictionaries in 13 languages - English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, traditional and simplified Chinese, Russian, Hebrew and Swedish.

The award-winning Babylon application features a simple popup interface that delivers instant translations and definitions of any term or expression displayed on screen. Babylon's strength lies in its patented technology, which enables immediate recognition of any word or value, in any Windows application.

In 2001 Babylon changed its business model, and began selling its translation software to both personal and business users.

Babylon today has leveraged its technology into enterprise information retrieval solutions. Babylon's corporate solutions give users instant access to information from both internal corporate information systems (e.g., ERP and CRM) and external reference sources.

Babylon also offers add-on premium content titles from a growing list of renowned publishers around the globe, such as Larousse, Langenscheidt, Van Dale, Editora Melhoramentos, Signum and Taishukan.

Babylon has over 26 million registered users of its software products, growing at a rate of 350,000 new installs monthly.

Major shareholders in Babylon are Reed Elsevier Ventures, a world leading publisher and information provider, and Formula Vision Technologies, a managing, holding and investment company focused on IT companies with innovative, proprietary technologies and solutions.