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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

The main prize of oDesk’s competition is a trip to the Silicon Valley with guided tours to the offices of major Internet companies, including Facebook, PayPal, Autodesk, and others. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Have laptop – will freelance.

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Vendor Management Software: Simplify billing and payments to affiliates and on-demand workforce

Transformify

Vendor management systems ( VMS) are usually Internet-enabled and can be run on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. One of the biggest fruit delivery chains in Latvia having around 250 sales spots across the country, just like many farms and fresh produce delivery companies across the globe, relies on seasonal workers.

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Startup Nation: The Best Startup Capitals for Entrepreneurs in 2023 

ReadWriteStart

Similar to neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, Estonia, and more so its capital, Tallinn has become a playground for startup-hungry entrepreneurs. More of the continent’s population has become connected to the internet, and ongoing government support to upgrade digital infrastructure has been widespread.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Redwood City, California’s Shutterfly, a leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has acquired Israel’s Photoccino , a developer of groundbreaking technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization. SHUTTERFLY ACQUIRES ISRAELI PHOTO SOFTWARE COMPANY PHOTOCCINO.

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China Regains Top Spot As Source Of Malignant Online Traffic: Akamai

YoungUpstarts

The Internet content delivery provider maintains a distributed set of unadvertised agents deployed across the Internet that log connection attempts, which the company classifies as attack traffic. Yearly increases among the top 10 countries/regions ranged from 15 percent in Latvia to 63 percent in Singapore.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

Eric Ries : I had to do the math, and it's dangerous to do the math live, but I had to look up on Wikipedia the number of English-speaking internet users, which is about 1.1 Eric Ries : So if I'm getting it right, 60 million people is something like 5% of the possible audience of people who are on the internet and speak English.