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In 2016, it acquired the freelancer platform, Skillbridge, which offered freelance accountants, statisticians, and consultants in market research, financial modeling, and due diligence. [9] In 2017, the company launched a vertical specializing in software engineers and designers for the automotive industry. [ 10 ]
[6] [7] Originally created as a staffing firm, oDesk eventually became an online marketplace that allowed registered users to find, hire, and collaborate with remote workers. [8] In 2009, a hacker was able to obtain the personal details of more than 1.3 million registered users including names, addresses, passwords, and associated email account ...
Freelancer has acquired several crowdsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden), [4] Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada) [5] - one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom), [6] Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters ...
The A.I. revolution could spell doom for remote workers, says WFH guru Nick Bloom: ‘If I were fully remote, you could replicate me with A.I.’ Jane Thier August 31, 2023 at 12:26 PM
According to the 2012 Freelance Industry Report compiled primarily about North America freelancing, nearly half of freelancers do writing work, with 18% of freelancers listing writing as a primary skill, 10% editing/copy-editing, and 10% as copy-writing. 20% of freelancers listed their primary skills as design.
Guru Inc. was founded in 1998 [2] in San Francisco as an online clearing house for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M USD in angel funding and a further $16M USD in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital. [2]
The roots of asynchronous learning are in the end of the 19th century, when formalized correspondence education (or distance learning) first took advantage of the postal system to bring physically remote learners into the educational fold. The 1920s and 1930s saw the introduction of recorded audio, desynchronizing broadcasting and ...
On June 2, 2021, A Cloud Guru was acquired by Vista Equity Partners and combined with Pluralsight [7] in a deal that valued the company at more than $2 billion. [8] Vista Equity Partners had previously acquired Pluralsight in April 2021. The acquisition of both Pluralsight and A Cloud Guru by the private equity firm is known as a rollup ...