Rev raises $4.5M for freelance marketplace from founders of similar service

Rev.com, founded by early oDesk employees, launched today with its own online workforce specifically targeting those who need translation and transcription services.

Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence to revolutionize the power of our collective brains

The two hundred people packed into a small screening room in Midtown Manhattan on a recent Tuesday night made quite a throng. Engineers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs sipped Sam Adams and nibbled bits from a fruit plate. They were there …

Funding daily: crowdfunding, outsourcing, and social gaming

At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …

Contractor-hiring service oDesk raises $15M

Outsourcing service oDesk, which brokers jobs between freelance workers and businesses looking to outsource, announced today it has raised $15 million in its fourth round of funding.

“oDesk helps find and match clients with contractors and helps them work together …

Outsourcing platform oDesk brings contractors $179M so far in 2011, talks IPO

oDesk, an outsourcing platform that brokers long-term and short-term contract jobs worldwide is on track to claim 50 percent of the online outsourcing market, the company announced today.

oDesk lets employers find, hire and pay contractors around the world with …

Humanoid puts human brainpower to work in the cloud

Humanoid is today launching the world’s first human brain-powered API for developers and programmers “that actually works.”

With Humanoid developers can harness the strength of crowd-sourcing and get accurate results, not currently available from existing solutions such as Amazon’s Mechanical …