Polaris Partners, the eighteen year old venture capital firm headquartered in Boston, has added former oDesk chief executive Gary Swart as its first venture partner focused on technology on the West C
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.elance.com/">Elance-oDesk </a>launched today in Australia with a new country manager and two city managers based in Melbourne and Sydney. The company also said it
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
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 hire support don't
Online work platform <a href="http://www.odesk.com/">oDesk</a> has raised $15 million in Series D funding from T. Rowe Price Associates with participation from Benchmark Capital, Globespan Capital Par
With the economy still struggling to recover, key indicators of economic performance are largely focused on traditional employment — we are fixated on how many people have managed to find on-site, s
Online work platform <a href="http://www.odesk.com/">oDesk</a> is announcing that <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/thomas-layton">Thomas Layton</a> is joining the company as Executive Chairma
Online work platform <a href="http://www.odesk.com/">oDesk</a> is reporting today that its contractors earned a record $22.3 million through the oDesk platform in October. This represents 90% growth f
<em><strong>Editor’s note</strong>: Guest contributor <a href="http://jonbischke.com/" target="_blank">Jon Bischke</a> is a founder of <a href="http://www.rglabsinc.com/" target="_blank">RG Labs
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<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/freelancer-215x42.png" width="215" height="42" />If the Internet has made one thing crystal clear, it's that physical borders and geographical
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The economy may still be trying to pick itself up, but one benefi
oDesk, the site that helps customers find and remotely monitor outsourced developers, has raised $15 million in a Series C funding round led by DAG Ventures. Existing investors Benchmark Capital, Glob
Citizen journalism site Helium has today officially launched its content marketplace after 7 months in beta testing. We’ve covered the service twice before, once in 2006, then last year when Hel
oDesk has just released a new part of their site called the oConomy where anyone can view statistics about the outsourcing activity on oDesk. As you can see above, features include the ability to view
Tomorrow CVSDude, provider of hosted software development environments, will announce a partnership with oDesk, an online marketplace for developers. The deal will eventually result in an oDesk brande
OnForce has closed a $6.75 million series A1 financing round led by Accel Partners. OnForce is a “marketplace for on site IT services”. Companies use the site to post contract gigs for reg
oDesk, a next generation marketplace for contract developers, has recently seen a spike in requests for Facebook developers. oDesk offers developers a number of aptitude tests to certify their program
On Tuesday, Silicon Valley based oDesk will announce that they hit a number of milestones and will lower pricing. We first profiled the company in early September and it is our opinion that oDesk fill
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