With more Americans doing freelance work, the platforms that connect them to clients are trying to get a bigger piece of the action. In the latest example, Elance-oDesk this morning announced it has a ...

It was almost a year ago that Elance and oDesk, two of the biggest websites dedicated to helping freelancers find work, announced that would be combining. Now the new company, called Elance-oDesk, is ...

REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwired - Dec 18, 2013) - oDesk and Elance today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge with each other. Both companies are leading marketplaces for online ...

In a move that will consolidate much of the freelance economy in a single corporate entity, online freelance work platforms Elance and oDesk announced their intent to merge, forming a new company with ...

Can you become a great freelancer? I've written a fair bit lately about the phenomenon where millions of workers have been recently let go from their employers and have been inadvertently thrust into ...

Nathan Wenneker joined Elance, an online freelance marketplace, in August 2008 because he wanted to become a self-employed IT contractor. The web application developer had no interest in a traditional ...

One of the things we in the technology industries are keenly aware of and focused on goes under the generic appellation, “the changing nature of work.” From a technology perspective, this tends to ...

If you’re a freelancer you’ve probably come across either Elance or oDesk when looking for work. Today, the company is announcing that it’s rebranding and merging both sites together under a new brand ...

oDesk, the leading marketplace and management platform for technical work, today announced it has secured $15 million in Series C financing. DAG Ventures led the round. Existing investors Benchmark ...

IT professionals are flocking to Elance, oDesk and other sites such as Rent a Coder, guru.com and LimeExchange for a variety of reasons. Some have been laid off and want to pick up freelance projects ...