TaskRabbit gets fruitful, mulitplies with new open API

Local-labor locating service TaskRabbit is opening up its tools and network to developers with a new API (application programming interface), the company announced on its blog Friday. This will allow third-party developers to integrate TaskRabbit features directly into their own apps and web sites.

With TaskRabbit, you can hire someone local (called a “Rabbit”) to run errands or do small bits of random work for you, including grocery shopping, data entry, and transporting all kinds … Continue Reading

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 its online platform. And those contractors earned $179 million through the first 11 months of 2011, the company said, with $22.3 million in wages going out during the month of October alone.

Rumors of an … Continue Reading

Franklin & Seidelmann draws on $25M for "teleradiology"

(Editor’s note: Chad Walter is VP of Operations for Chile-IT. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)

As companies start to incorporate technology into everyday practice, distance no longer prevents U.S. businesses from recruiting international vendors to help with sales, development and IT efforts. Despite this reality, there are still a lot of misconceptions about outsourcing and it’s benefits for U.S. businesses.

The emergence of new global IT hubs – particularly those in Latin American countries … Continue Reading