elance
Indiez aims to raise the quality of freelancer platforms
Indiez is an up-and-coming freelance service that aims to bring a higher standard to a world that is dominated by the likes of Gigster, Upwork and Fiverr by taking a…
Elance-oDesk Launches In Australia To Compete With Freelancer.com
Elance-oDesk launched today in Australia with a new country manager and two city managers based in Melbourne and Sydney. The company also said it plans to hire more city managers…
Coming Out Of Stealth, MyCrowd Aims To Create World’s Biggest Marketplace For Freelance Projects
MyCrowd, a startup that helps companies find freelance talent for specific tasks through Google Docs, PowerPoint and other software applications, is raising $500,000 in a seed round from unnamed angel…
Everything You Wanted To Know About The Giant Elance, oDesk Merger & Ensuing Backlash (But Were Afraid To Ask)
While visions of strategic synergies and competitors running for cover danced in the heads of company executives, the scores of freelancers who use oDesk and Elance to find work or…
Elance, SkilledUp & Smarterer Launch New Learning Platform To Let You Learn, Validate & Find Work In One Place
Everyone knows that the educational system in the U.S. hasn’t changed much in, oh, the last 100 years. And that there’s a lot of inertia within the system, gumming the…
Online Job Marketplace Elance Raises $16M From Kleiner Perkins, NEA And The Stripes Group
Online job marketplace Elance has raised $16 million in new capital led by the Stripes Group with existing investors, New Enterprise Associates and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers participating. Elance is…
Online job marketplace Elance has just announced it will give $1 million to The Startup America Partnership, the national campaign that aims to accelerate entrepreneurship, which is chaired by Steve Case, co-founder…
GetAFreelancer Hits 1 Million Users, Switches Name To Freelancer.com
If the Internet has made one thing crystal clear, it’s that physical borders and geographical distance are no longer necessarily an absolute barrier for conducting business. More and more companies…
Security Snafu: Elance Sends Private Messages All Over The Place
Second time this Summer we write about Elance, a service that allows for companies and individuals to hire and pay independent professionals and contractors online, and once again it’s not…
In A Tight Economy, Outsourced Developers On oDesk Work 100,000 Hours A Week
The economy may still be trying to pick itself up, but one beneficiary of tighter budgets is outsourcing marketplace oDesk. Web developers and software engineers looking for project work can…
Elance Hit By Security Breach
We’ve just gotten word that development-outsourcing site Elance has suffered a security breach, compromising some user information that included names, addresses, phone numbers, and location (no financial information was taken).…