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Here are some recent developments for the Elance team as they cross the half-billion dollars earnings mark: *Raised an additional $16 million in capital in order to support continued growth and...
Typically I don't like to devote an entire piece solely to the recent milestones of a single platform, but in the case of this infographic from Elance celebrating its first $500 million of work done, I made an exception.
Seedups founder Michael Faulkner says "the appetite for crowdfunding startups is growing, and with the current political momentum, this will be a great way of showing what can be achieved....
Since 2006, Family Search volunteers have indexed 548 million records! It has truly become a volunteer phenomenon and is the largest initiative of its kind. Volunteers worldwide continue to...
According to MyGengo CEO Robert Laing, MyGengo will *own* translation within the major B2B2C channels that allow merchants and publishers to sell and communicate across borders. Furthermore, he...
myGengo is the Mechanical Turk for translation: A platform and API for human translation at huge scale, with a network of over 2,500 qualified translators worldwide. myGengo translates thousands...
Steven Blumgart, OurCrowd’s Chairman, noted that, “What sets OurCrowd apart is our highly differentiated approach. We are not a typical ‘Crowdfunding site’ in that we are an experienced team,...
A large slug of new money could help Foursquare to build out a local sales force to compete more aggressively against Groupon and its ilk. Right now, Foursquare has about 60 employees, while...
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Suite101's door is open to the curious novice looking for a "101" intro to any of their 3000 topics, but it's also a meeting place for over 17 million readers each month who ask...
Udemy is a website that enables anyone to teach and learn online. Udemy tries to democratize online education by making it fast, easy and free to create online courses.They're an open...
This week, Samasource paid its millionth dollar to poverty-stricken workers around the globe.
“We are very proud to reach this milestone,” Claire Hunsaker, director of sales and marketing at Samasource, told Crowdsourcing.org. “All our worker payments come straight from client contracts, so reaching a million dollars is a testament to the hard work the team has put into building our business.”
Founded in 2008, the San Francisco-based non-profit offers “dignified, computer-based work opportunities” to more than 1,500 workers in nine countries across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Haiti. Companies like Google, LinkedIn, and Intuit approach Samasource with projects that are broken down into “microwork,” which Samasource’s global workforce completes. Samasource then vets and delivers the results back to clients.
In honor of their Christmas Holiday Launch, WikiObserver is putting up a $500 prize for the account holder who generates the most views of their Christmas Morning Santa Claus visit using...
With the launch of the Indian edition, the firm is now aiming to grow the local user base to 2 million by end of 2012. The job sourcing portal is designed on the lines of eBay. Just as eBay let...
TaskRabbit plans to announce Monday that it’s raised $13 million in a Series C round and added two new board members, bringing the startup’s total funding so far to $38 million and pushing the...
Pic Collage was the first to offer free-form collage making. What that means is that users are able to freely edit, manipulate and set their images without the constraints of templates, such as 2×2...
Over $1,000,000 pledged from 500+ retail investors at IPO Village. IPOVillage.com is offering the first ever Equity Crowdfunded IPO.
IPO Village, the first of its kind crowdfunding platform to host initial public offerings, announced today that they have received over $1 million in pledges for their first crowdfunded IPO set...
Using the ever popular crowdfunding, Wing Commander developer Chris Roberts has achieved more than half of the goal for a "space epic" sandbox game with "deep lore". They...
Crowdfunding site-Kickstarter rounded up these highlights about completed projects in a blog post that also included the following details: -At least 86 Kickstarter-funded films have been...
Founded in 2005, Kiva lenders crowdfunded almost $500,000 in loans in the first year. Today, its community of 900,000 lenders crowdfund more than $1.5 million in loans per week. Kiva co-founder...
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