• March 26th, 2013

    Founded By Early oDesk Employees, Freelancer Marketplace Rev.com Raises $4.5 Million Series A

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    Rev.com, a freelancer marketplace founded by early oDesk employees, is today announcing $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Venky Ganesan of Globespan Capital Partners. Also participating in the round were Craig Sherman (former COO of Ancestry.com) and Austin Ligon (founder of CarMax). All three are now members of Rev.com’s board of directors, following the round which closed back in… → Read More

    October 17th, 2011

    Freelancer.com: Facebook App, 3D, HTML5, And Cocoa Jobs On The Rise

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    Freelancer.com is poised to release a report later today with a list of the 50 fastest-growing outsourcing jobs for the third quarter of 2011, based on 114,455 jobs that were posted on the site during that time.

    We got an early peek at the report, which suggests content and AdSense-related jobs are on the rise again after a drop last quarter, following Google’s Panda update. Categories like… → Read More

    January 24th, 2011

    After Buying EUFreelance.com, Freelancer.com Acquires Freelancer.de

    Lots of ‘freelance’ there in the title, but it was difficult to avoid. Outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com (formerly GetAFreelancer) has acquired its much smaller German counterpart, Freelancer.de.

    The terms of the deal were not disclosed. → Read More

    July 19th, 2010

    Freelancer.com Acquires Freemarket, Launches Virtual Content Marketplace

    Online marketplace for outsourcing Freelancer.com, formerly known as GetAFreelancer has acquired virtual content marketplace Freemarket.com and is relaunching Freemarket’s platform under the Freelancer.com brand.

    Freelancer.com focuses primarily on providing a marketplace for remote workers. Freelancer.com now caters to a user base of 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses (up from 1→ Read More

    July 6th, 2010

    Freelancer.com Spots Massive Increases In Demand For HTML5, Geolocation Jobs

    Online marketplace for outsourcing Freelancer.com, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, this morning announced their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs in Q2 with the release of the Freelancer 50.

    Freelancer.com now caters to a user base of 1.6 million small and medium-sized businesses (up from 1 million in October 2009) and says it has outsourced more than 725,000 projects to… → Read More