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 ...

For years, computer engineer Odysseas Tsatalos longed to work with his Greek high school classmate Stratis Karamanlakis. But Tsatalos lived in California; Karamanlakis, in Athens. So Tsatalos figured ...

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 ...

Not just an online employment service, oDesk is a virtual environment for contract workers and their employers with collaboration tools, a time clock, and monitoring features Back in the day, dot-com ...