SYDNEY: December 13th 2016 - Freelancer.com , the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and projects posted, announced today the acquisition of Nubelo and Prolancer, the largest Spanish and Portuguese freelancing marketplaces after Freelancer.com, respectively.

SYDNEY: After winning the eCommerce category at the NSW Export Awards in October, last night Freelancer.com, the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and projects posted, proudly won the eCommerce category at the 54th Australian Export Awards.

SYDNEY: With the gig economy gaining momentum and Freelancer.com seeing its userbase surpass 21 million, the creative industries have now fully embraced the freelancer platform, with creative projects making up 50% of the top 10 fastest growing jobs in Quarter 3, 2016.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com has added the Vitenamese Dong (VND) as one of its 22 supported currencies. This allows over 200,000 Vietnamese freelancers, employers and businesses on Freelancer.com, to use the native currency for payments on the site.

SYDNEY: Last night The Export Council of Australia announced Freelancer.com, the world's largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and jobs posted, as winner of the eCommerce category in the 2016 Australian Export Awards.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced winning two People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies in the 13th Annual International Business Awards. The company won in the Internet/New Media and Business/Professional Services categories.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com for the first time wins a Grand Stevie Award in The Best of the IBA Awards, the world's premier business awards competition. This followed shortly after a landslide win of twelve Stevie awards in The 2016 International Business Awards.

SYDNEY: As part of the celebration for hitting 20 million users, Freelancer.com hosted a worldwide Internet Scavenger Hunt, which has just ended. Six teams from around the world have won a share of US$30,000, with a team of freelance graphic designers from the Philippines finishing 1st place.

SYDNEY: It has been a landslide win for Freelancer.com at the 2016 International Business Awards, taking home a total of 12 Stevie Awards: 6 Gold, 4 Silver, and 2 Bronze. The winners Gala Event will take place on October 21, 2016, in Rome, Italy.

SYDNEY: Australia's largest startup and growth conference, today announced that Andrew Chen (Head of Supply Growth, Uber) will headline StartCon 2016.

SYDNEY: StartCon, Australia's largest startup and growth conference, partners with Startup World Cup to host the biggest pitch competition in the country, which will take place on Day 1 of the StartCon 2016 conference on November 26th at Royal Randwick Racecourse, Sydney. The partnership opens up opportunities for Australian startups and entrepreneurs to gain access to Silicon Valley, global VCs and international tech leaders. This year's winning startup team of StartCon's annual pitch competition will be invited, all expenses paid, to San Francisco to represent Australia for the chance to win US$1,000,000 in prize investment. Over 100 startups are expected to participate in the 2016 competition.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com further cements its status as the world's largest online freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, celebrating 20 million users--a community of online freelancers and employers that has been growing steadily since the company's inception in 2009.

SYDNEY: Within one week of announcing the venue and date, StartCon 2016 pre-release sold out completely. Now the much-awaited conference is officially launching general ticket sales, along with a bold theme for this year's event: Bonfire of the Unicorns.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com reinforces its global reach by hosting an Internet Scavenger Hunt for its nearly 20 million users, letting troops of thousands of people to complete over a hundred fun and cryptic challenges around the world, record viral videos about it, and win a total of US $30,000 in prizes.

STOCKHOLM: Freelancer.com, the world's largest online freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by the total number of users and projects posted, is launching in Sweden. With payments available in Swedish Krona (SEK), and a translation into Svenska, Swedish startups and small businesses will have direct access to a global labour force of nearly 20 million freelancers.

SYDNEY : Freelancer.com cements its spot as the leading freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace as it adds two more Webby Awards to its name, now having a total of 10 Webby Awards in five short years - a huge achievement for the company and its close to 19 million users.

SYDNEY: As the gap between the developed and developing world is being bridged virtually by Freelancer.com, more businesses are quickly adapting to the changing times by working with more agile teams and utilizing a wider array of better resources.

SYDNEY : NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) in partnership with Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by number of users and jobs posted, is hosting a logo design challenge open to graphic designers from all around the world.

SYDNEY : StartCon (formerly SydStart) today announced international top speakers from Survey Monkey, Zillow, BitTorrent, 500Startups, Hubspot and META as part of the initial lineup for Australia’s largest startup & growth conference, to be held at Sydney's new $152 million dollar five-star grand-stand at Royal Randwick Racecourse on November 26 and 27, 2016.

SYDNEY: The Indonesian Minister of Trade Thomas Lembong visited Freelancer.com Headquarters (HQ) in Sydney on March 15, 2016. With his delegation, Mr. Lembong discussed emerging business and technology matters with Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie and Senior VP of Growth, and fellow Indonesian, Willix Halim.

SYDNEY : Aligned with its determined vision to enter more markets and allow seamless transactions between freelancers and businesses around the world, the world’s top freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com is introducing Chinese Yuan to its roster of supported currencies, as well as Chinese payment gateways Alipay and UnionPay.

SYDNEY : After selling out six years in a row, StartCon, formerly SydStart, is once again hosting Australia’s largest startup and growth conference in Sydney. The conference will be held on the 26th and 27th of November 2016, at Royal Randwick Racecourse.

SYDNEY: NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), partners with Freelancer.com to design concepts for a robotic arm for the Astrobee free-­flying robot that will succeed the SPHERES robot on the International Space Station (ISS) by crowdsourcing parts from over 17 million freelancers from around the world.

SYDNEY: Microsoft jobs surge in the online work market; Creative projects on the rise, Pinterest and Instagram emerging as winners in the Social Media war

SYDNEY: World’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com today announced the appointment of Kyri Theos as Regional Director for Asia-Pacific.

St Lucia QLD, Australia: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace by total number of users and posted projects, today announced that it had obtained final regulatory approval for its acquisition of Escrow.com

SYDNEY: NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), recently partnered with Freelancer.com to crowdsource several designs for an Astronaut Smartwatch App, ideas for apps that use NASA's Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) protocol, a number of CAD models of tools for the Robonaut 2 (R2), and other designs to be used on the International Space Station and elsewhere.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com demonstrates its global footprint once again by inviting its 16 million userbase to expose the Freelancer logo anywhere in the world, record viral videos about it, and win up to US$25,000.

SYDNEY: Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’ and wearable applications drive strong mobile development growth; Social Media is moving towards commerce; and Data Science is transforming modern businesses towards insight-driven action and growth.

SYDNEY: From garnering a landslide five Stevies last year, top online freelancing and crowdsourcing platform Freelancer.com once again sweeps this year’s prestigious International Business Awards with a record-breaking nine Stevies. That makes the total number of Stevies won by the company in the last three years an impressive 20 awards.

SYDNEY: NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), partnered with Freelancer.com to help design a number of CAD models of tools to be used by the Robonaut 2 (R2). Now, they are raising the stakes by asking freelancers to design the smartwatch app for use on the International Space station in the NASA Challenge: Astronaut Smartwatch App Interface Design contest.

SYDNEY: Freelancer Limited (ASX:FLN) today announced the successful completion of a $45 million placement and secondary sale of ordinary shares to global and domestic institutional investors.

SYDNEY: NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL) has partnered with Freelancer.com to help design a number of CAD models of tools to be used by the Robonaut 2 (R2) on the International Space Station.

SYDNEY: To celebrate over 15 million users registered on its platform, leading online jobs marketplace Freelancer.com will feature the stories of entrepreneurs and self-employed professionals who have been empowered by the website. The lives of these professionals who pioneer the future of work have been compiled in a special e-book.

SYDNEY: Freelancer has been recognised as the leading website in both the Employment category and the Professional Services category by a jury from the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) — a 1,000+ member judging body. In addition to being recognised twice by the jury, Freelancer also won two People’s Voice Awards - one for each of the Employment and Professional Services categories.

SYDNEY: SYDNEY, April 27, 2015: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, today announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Escrow.com from a private investor for US$7.5 million in cash, and completed a AUD$10 million placement of ordinary shares to institutional investors.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, today announced the release of Showcase™ a cross platform design gallery of millions of portfolio items in an easily browsable format, allowing freelancers to show off their quality work to employers.

SYDNEY: By adding location to its matching algorithm, Freelancer.com integrates local jobs into its marketplace, providing a seamless local-hiring experience, while still retaining the same exceptional experience for online jobs.

SYDNEY: Apple is trailing Android yet gaining ground as both battle for mobile market share; marketers are shifting to written and video content as Facebook kills organic reach; and innovators are connecting with specialist freelancers now more than ever.

SYDNEY: SYDNEY, April 8th: Freelancer.com (ASX: FLN) today announced that it has been officially selected as a Nominee in the 19th Annual Webby Awards for Best Employment Website and Best Professional Services Website by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences. At the same time, the company announced that it had passed 15 million registered users, cementing its reputation as the world’s largest freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace in terms of total number of registered users and projects posted.

SYDNEY: With a population now larger than Sweden and New Zealand combined, Freelancer.com continues to empower Millennial professionals from the developed and developing world

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com continues its expansion into the Spanish speaking market by acquiring the assets of Projectlinkr.com, Freelancer.com’s second acquisition for 2015.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced the acquisition of the assets of DoNanza, a freelancer job aggregation marketplace within the online freelance worker community.

SYDNEY: 2014 has been an incredible year for Freelancer.com. The company previously released its Fast 50 reports showing what have been the biggest movers and shakers in each quarter and, at the end of 2014, decided to share something a little different. Its team of data scientists looked at the projects that have been posted on the platform this past year in comparison to the previous year and noticed something exciting ­ Freelancer.com is empowering Millennials to change lives.

SYDNEY: Connecting with eCommerce and a focus on original visual content has become critical for Social Platforms as we deep-dive into Pinterest’s meteoric rise in the social market; this demand for original content delivers a surge in creative and content jobs; Apple breaks what appeared to be Android’s unshakeable dominance with the launch of the iPhone 6; and Microsoft appears set for a resurgence; as everyone is left asking, “What has happened to eBay? What will we expect to see from Alibaba?”

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest crowdsourcing & freelancing marketplace, today announced that it has appointed Pete Cooper to lead media, communications and business development in Australia and New Zealand. Freelancer.com will also acquire the SydStart assets of Cooper & Co.

SYDNEY: Warrior Payments, Warrior Forum’s official payment, distribution and product delivery platform, has introduced state of the art sales funnels allowing users to maximise product revenue by offering upsells and downsells.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com has announced the biggest change yet to its mobile offering with the release of Freelancer for Android version 2.0, bringing freelancers and employers new features and tools to work anywhere, anytime and with anyone.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com has launched Freemarket to provide its community of more than 13 million professionals with the safest and most affordable platform to buy and sell domains and websites.

SYDNEY: STEM-related online work takes off as startups embrace the Internet of Things; all things 3D soar on the back of continual 3D printing advances; SMEs are trusting freelancers with their finances and corporate identity; Apple is in the dregs as Android continues to dominate; Content strategies rule as SEO industry continues to reel in the wake of Google algorithm updates; and Facebook, Twitter and YouTube jobs fall sharply as platforms tighten the screws and organic reach plummets.

SYDNEY: Warrior Forum, the world’s largest Internet marketing community & marketplace today launched Warrior Payments, a revolutionary all-in-one payments, analytics, affiliate marketing and distribution platform which will transform the way people sell products & services online.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced that it has launched an Android Wear compatible version of the Freelancer Messenger app in the Google Play store with a new messaging paradigm for wearable computing. Combining the mobility of wearable technology with the power of the Freelancer platform, this upgrade will allow people to collaborate no matter where they are, transforming the way the world works.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced that it has acquired Warrior Forum, the world’s largest Internet marketing marketplace and community with over 732,000 members and ranked 225 in Alexa globally.

SYDNEY: Mobile developers are now putting Android first; 3D printing, concept design and architectural work drive a large increase in 3D jobs; After Candy Crush and Flappy Bird, Mobile Phone jobs skyrocket; Content is King again: content strategies rebound as marketers gain confidence; BPO shows strong growth as businesses continue to strip the fat.

SYDNEY: Getting work done just became a whole lot easier as Freelancer.com releases Freelancer Messenger.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com has today announced the acquisition of Fantero.com, a leading virtual content marketplace within the design and freelance communities. Populated with a collection of almost 1 million unique items of digital content from over 100,000 users, the marketplace specializes in stock photos, web templates, audio, music, flash and video files as well as 3D models, plugins and scripts. This diverse range of content is expected to be a valuable resource for Freelancer’s user base of 10.7 million users.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced the acquisition of Poland's largest freelance marketplace dedicated to online work, Zlecenia.przez.net ("Work through the Net").

SYDNEY: Freelancer Limited (ASX:FLN) today released financial results for the year ending 31 December 2013: Revenue of $18.8 million, up 77%. Gross Payment Volume of $84.4 million up 66%. Operating EBITDA of $1.2 million, up 53%. Operating Net Profit of $1.1 million, up 46%.

SYDNEY: More than 25,000 people have signed up to take part in the Freelancer.com Online Scavenger Hunt, hoping to take home over US$30,000 in prizes.

SYDNEY: Starting 2014 on a high after a stellar finish to 2013, Freelancer.com smashes through 10 million members.

SYDNEY: As part of its ongoing commitment to create opportunities for underprivileged people around the world, Freelancer Limited (Freelancer) (ASX: FLN) today announced that Freelancer International Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Freelancer, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) in Malaysia for its Micro Sourcing to Generate Additional Income for B40 (Low Income Households) project under the Government’s Digital Malaysia initiative. MDeC is owned and funded by the Malaysian government, and directs and oversees Malaysia’s National Information & Communication Technology (ICT) initiatives.

SYDNEY: Freelancer Limited (Freelancer) shares will begin trading at 12pm AEST today on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker FLN.

SYDNEY: Freelancer Limited (Freelancer) (ASX: FLN) today announced the successful allocation of its Initial Public Offering (Offer). The Offer was significantly over-subscribed and closed earlier than anticipated following extremely strong demand from retail, sophisticated and institutional investors.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com Director and entrepreneur Simon Clausen is recognised for his success in the Australian Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com dominates as the platform small businesses and start-ups rely on to get work done, breaking through 5 million projects posted on the site.

SYDNEY: The rate at which users sign up to Freelancer accelerates as the site surpasses 9 million users.

SYDNEY: Serial entrepreneur Matt Barrie has been selected out of Australia’s leading business men and women to take out the top honour.

SYDNEY: The 3D printing industry heats up amid a $600 million acquisition; The design industry flourishes as SMEs embrace freelancers over local agencies; Android continues to school Apple; Facebook fights fire with fire and comes out triumphant over Twitter; Telemarketing and Email Marketing experts rejoice as demand surges for these job types, at the expense of SEO and Link Building; SMEs now use freelancers as an integral part of their business.

SYDNEY: Freelancer has been named the winner of three Stevie Awards at the 10th Annual International Business Awards, beating out thousands of businesses from around the globe.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced it has acquired Freelancer.jp, owned and operated by MamiCom since 2003, cementing its position as the largest freelance marketplace in the world.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced Greg Robinson has been appointed Vice President of Compliance as the company rockets past 8.3 million users, 30 languages and 17 currencies.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced that it had broken through the 8 million user mark, the same day as it launched 10 new languages. The new user total now surpasses the combined value of all its nearest competitors.

SYDNEY: Planetary Resources’ ARKYD Campaign smashed through its US$1,000,000 goal on crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com becoming the largest crowdfunded space campaign in history. Using the Freelancer.com contest platform, Planetary Resources was able to crowdsource a design for a T-Shirt that will commemorate this pioneering quest into space.

SYDNEY: Planetary Resources, a company dedicated to space exploration and resource discovery, has taken the first step towards making space accessible to everyone. Planetary Resources has turned to both crowdfunding* and crowdsourcing**, in partnership with Freelancer.com, to involve global communities in building, promoting and launching the first publicly accessible, orbiting space telescope, the ARKYD.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the number one resource for small to medium businesses and entrepreneurs, is changing the game by taking crowdsourcing to the next level. The site’s contest feature is no longer limited to just design categories, allowing SMEs and entrepreneurs to crowdsource anything, from websites and software to architecture and engineering

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced that Q1 2013 revenue was up 103% from 2012, from 300,000 projects and contests posted in the quarter. Furthermore, the company noted that extending into April it had experienced six months of triple digit year on year growth in revenue, up from 82% compound annually over the last 4 years.

SYDNEY: Triple Webby Award winner and four-time AIMIA recipient Freelancer.com today hired Nikki Parker as Regional Director for ANZ, to rapidly build out across the region.

SYDNEY: The eCommerce revolution shows no signs of slowing; Core web 2.0 technologies HTML5, CSS, PHP, and jQuery continue to grow; Android spreads throughout the developing world, leaving Apple floundering in its wake; 3D design jobs take off as 3D printers like MakerBot start to go mainstream; Twitter grows while Facebook slumps, but both fall flat as marketers fall back to Email Marketing; BPO jobs boom as virtual assistants become mainstream for SMEs and entrepreneurs; SEO rebounds from Q4 2012 as the industry adapts to Google Panda and Penguin algorithms.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com announces that the equivalent of one in every thousand people worldwide have embraced the freelancing phenomenon; launches US$10,000 competition to celebrate another milestone on its mission to give 1 billion people on the planet a job.

SYDNEY: Website Hosting tops the list as cloud computing takes off; Windows desktop apps take off after the release of Microsoft Windows 8; Apple AppFatigue sets in; Software and Website QA jobs soar as eCommerce sites rushed to fortify themselves for holiday season traffic; eBay jobs rise as the online marketplace reinvents itself; and Social media and Internet Marketing jobs continue to fall out of favour in the wake of constant platform and search index changes.

MELBOURNE: Freelancer.com has been presented a Smart Company Web Award in the category for Best Company Website with over 20 employees.

DHAKA: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest freelancing marketplace, formally inducts Bangladesh into its extensive network of over 6.7 million freelancing professionals. The launch of Freelancer.com.bd in Dhaka by Vice-President David Harrison ushers in a new stage in the online work phenomenon sweeping Bangladesh, and preludes his keynote speech at the Bangladesh Association of Software Information Services (BASIS) conference later in the week.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com spreads across the globe, with nearly 7 million users from over 234 countries and regions posting 4 million projects - worth a massive $US885 million!

TAMPA: Freelancer.com acquires the world’s fourth largest outsourcing marketplace by volume and second largest by users with 2.5 million users, 1.3 million projects and US$139 million in turnover to date.

DEUTSCHLAND: Das interaktive Netz setzt seinen Höhenflug fort; Androidaufträge gehen zurück, während Apple iOS Aufträge stagnieren; eBay–Aufträge ziehen wieder an, da das Verkaufsforum Änderungen und eine grundlegende Überarbeitung angekündigt hat.; das Vertrauen in Facebook-Aufträge kehrt zurück, da Vermarkter in Folge der Börsengang-Pleite zurückkehren; der Übergang zum papierlosen Büro boomt; Internet Marketing erholt sich infolge der Google Panik.

SYDNEY: Android jobs ricochet back as Apple iOS jobs stagnate; The interactive web continues to fly; eBay jobs return as the marketplace announces changes and a makeover; confidence returns to Facebook jobs as marketers return in the wake of the IPO flop; the transition to the paperless office booms; Internet Marketing rebounds in the wake of Google panic.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: LinkedIn last week named Freelancer.com Chief Executive Matt Barrie as one of 150 key worldwide opinion leaders

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com is now accepting entries for its fourth Expose Our Logo contest, inviting freelancers, employers, and other avid members to compete for a share of $25,000 in prizes.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com has been named a recipient of one of the most enviable and prestigious of business awards, a Silver Stevie, making the outsourcing marketplace one of the first to be honored in the Internet and New Media category.

SYDNEY: In the wake of the Argentina launch, Freelancer.com makes further inroads into the Latin American market with the launch of Freelancer.cl.

BUENOS AIRES: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace, yesterday welcomed Argentina into its network of over 4 million businesses and professionals. CEO Matt Barrie officially launched the venture at eCommerceDay Buenos Aires.

MANILA: As part of its efforts to support the growing Filipino app development community, Freelancer.com is excited to announce its partnership with WebGeek Philippines in the all-day hackathon extravaganza, WebGeek DevCup.

BUENOS AIRES: Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie arrived in Buenos Aires today to deliver a keynote speech at eCommerceDay, Latin America’s largest and most prestigious technology conference. The conference will bring together hundreds of participants from all over the region, and host the eCommerce Awards Argentina 2012. With over 50 international speakers, attendance by local and regional business leaders, and 7 plenary and 12 concurrent thematic workshops, professionals will address current issues and trends in eCommerce and Internet business in Argentina and the region.

LONDON: In a bid to make an impact on the European market, Freelancer.com launches Freelancer.com.es and Freelancer.de to help bring Spain and Germany into contact with its more than 4 million users.

BERLIN: Freelancer.com, der weltgrößte online-Marktplatz für die Vermittlung von Projekten und freiberuflicher Arbeit kündigt den Launch seiner deutschen Website www.freelancer.de mit vielen lokalen Anpassungen für heute an. Ursprünglich erworben als “Freelancer.de Booking Center”, stellen die deutschen Nutzer mittlerweile, was die Veröffentlichung von Projekten angeht, die sechstgrößte Gruppe auf Freelancer.com dar.

SYDNEY: One App Store to rule them all: tables turn as Apple iOS accelerates, leaving Android in its dust; Google changes send Internet Marketing industry into panic; Businesses look to weather the economic downturn with BPO; Open Standards dominate the Fast 50 and Web; Facebook IPO fizzer spills over into fall in Social Media jobs.

TORONTO: Freelancer.com acquires world’s fifth largest freelance marketplace, rockets to over 4 million enterprise and professional users as it acquires Canada’s largest freelance marketplace

TORONTO: Freelancer.com acquires world’s fifth largest freelance marketplace, rockets to over 4 million enterprise and professional users.

KINGSTON, JAMIACA: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace has launched in Jamaica with Freelancer.com.jm. This is set to create an optimistic atmosphere among entrepreneurs in the country, where an average of 6,344 new businesses are registered annually.

SYDNEY: Recognizing the important role Freelancer.com plays in transforming the lives of small business owners in Australia and the world, Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy recently invited the company’s Chief Executive Matt Barrie to talk on how startups are taking advantage of opportunities prov

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie is scheduled to share his views on the changing digital workforce in Spain, as the country welcomes the leading technologist, entrepreneur, and lecturer during the CICD (International Digital Citizenship Conference) in Donostia-San Sebastián, on May 8 to 9, 2012.

SYDNEY: The economy cools, but business process outsourcing heats up; VAs allow businesses to focus on what’s important; Android and iOS continue to shine; Open Standards will rule the Web; SEO continues to lose as Google intensifies its offensive.

SYDNEY: Still fresh from his successful talk at the SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, Freelancer.com CEO Matt Barrie is set to fly to Amsterdam and face an audience of entrepreneurs, technologists, futurists, venture capitalists, and senior level executives during The Next Web Conference Europe from April 25 to 27.

SYDNEY: Record numbers of Britons are turning to self employment and freelancing to find work, and as a result are setting up their own businesses, according to Freelancer.co.uk, the world’s largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace.

SYDNEY: Pre-registrations for Freelancer.com’s US$50,000 Internet Scavenger Hunt have gone viral as thousands sign up for the competition; coincides with SXSW keynote speech from CEO Matt Barrie. Scavenger hunt HQ located at Trade Show Booth 1219A/1318.

SYDNEY: Mysterious “Hummingbird logos” seen worldwide. Thousands mobilized for action in Australia, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Slovakia, Taiwan and the United States.

SYDNEY: SYDNEY, February 27, 2012: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced their findings on the fastest growing online jobs with the release of the Freelancer Fast 50 for 2011, together with the company’s predictions for 2012.

SYDNEY: Growth provides the impetus for an ambitious expansion plan for 2012 and beyond.

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s 160,000 SMEs set to benefit from being able to tap into an online workforce.

NEW DELHI: Freelancer.com launches a dedicated regional marketplace at Freelancer.in to cater for the largest freelancer demographic in the world. Over Rs. 1.4 lakh crore has already been earned to date by Indian freelancers through the marketplace.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace today announced the top 20 finalists in its US$25,000 ‘Expose Our Logo’ contest. Over 440 video entries were received involving tens of thousands of freelancers from all points of the globe.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com announced that it was joining the protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills, adding its voice to Wikipedia, Google, Reddit and many other high profile Internet sites.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today announced that it has rocketed through 2,000 projects posted and 3,000 new user registrations per day as the world's largest outsourcing marketplace. Freelancer.com's global community comprises of 3 million users with 1.3 million projects posted to date.

SYDNEY: The boom in the technology industry sees an explosion in programming and data entry jobs. AdSense and content writing jobs pull back after surging in Q3. Apple iPhone application development surges after launch of the 4S, but Android applications accelerate at over twice the growth rate. Amazon AWS grows strongly but from a small base and no-one seems to care about Google App Engine, or even less, Microsoft Azure.

SYDNEY: Iranian Freelancer.com members denied earning opportunities as censors prevent citizens from accessing website

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com today cemented its reputation as the world’s largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace by welcoming its 3,000,000th user. The milestone caps off a stellar year for Freelancer.com Chief Executive Matt Barrie and his team.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com demonstrates global footprint by inviting its 3 million users to record viral videos of the company logo worldwide.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced that CEO Matt Barrie will be a featured speaker at the 19th Annual SXSW Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas in March 2012. Matt was selected with 21 industry heavyweights Reid Hoffman (Linkedin), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media), Stephen Wolfram (Wolfram Alpha) to be a featured session in the program of over 600 speakers.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace, proudly announced that CEO Matt Barrie is the 2011 Ernst & Young Technology Entrepreneur of the Year winner.

SYDNEY: Post Panda, Content and Adsense is back; Social Networking and Marketing-specific projects dominate; HTML5 increases at Flash’s expense; Are Mobile Apps fizzing?; and Is Java dying?

SYDNEY: Global leader diversifies hiring solutions for businesses by adding hourly projects to its fixed-price offerings. Freelancers can profit by moving their work to the industry’s lowest commission structure!

SYDNEY: New feature increases collaboration between employers and designers, resulting in higher quality, faster delivered design projects.

LONDON: LONDON: September 6, 2011 – Freelancer.co.uk, the UK arm of the world’s largest online services marketplace Freelancer.com, today announced the opening of a local office and appointment of Saif Bonar as Country Manager of the United Kingdom.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced that the site has passed $100 million in user earnings.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced it was dropping all listing fees for projects until the end of August, enabling employers to post their projects for free.

MANILA: Freelancer.com, the world's number one website for outsourcing, today officially launched a dedicated regional website at www.freelancer.ph supporting small business owners, freelancers and entrepreneurs in the Philippines.

SYDNEY: Matt Barrie, Founder and CEO of Freelancer.com, will deliver keynote speeches at the Australian Young Entrepreneurs Unconventions in Melbourne and Sydney.

SYDNEY: Android jobs on pace to eclipse iPhone work by end of 2012; HTML 5 shows impressive growth as the fastest growing job category; BlackBerry outlook negative despite launch of PlayBook; Microsoft continues steady decline

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing and design marketplace today announced the winners of its US$20,000 competition, consisting of a satirical 2012 US Presidential Campaign Logo Contest and a T-shirt design contest.

SYDNEY: Ernst & Young have announced Matt Barrie, Founder and CEO of Freelancer.com, as the Technology Category winner of the 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year for the Eastern Region.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com creates the world’s largest and most lucrative contest site for its 600,000 plus designers, with commissions as low as 3%

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com wreaks havoc on the 2012 US Presidential Campaign, challenging its 600,000 plus designers to design a campaign logo for unofficial Candidates. Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, with over 2.5 million registered users, today called on designers worldwide to enter its unofficial 2012 US Presidential Candidate Logo competition.

SANTIAGO: Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace will be the keynote speaker at the launch of eCommerce day in Santiago, Chile.

SYDNEY: Google algorithm wreaks havoc on online writing jobs, Apple continues to rise while Windows, Nokia and Adobe decline, hardware product development climbs. Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace, announced today their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs of the first quarter with the release of the Freelancer Fast 50.

NEW YORK: The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences today announced that Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, won a coveted Webby Award as the best Employment Site of the Year, as well as the Webby People's Choice Award for the same category.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace announces the winners of its One Million Projects Party contest.

SYDNEY: BRW magazine today announced Matt Barrie, Founder and CEO of Freelancer.com, as its winner of the 2011 BRW Entrepreneur of the Year.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, reached its one millionth project posted over the weekend and celebrated with 82 Freelancer.com One Million Projects meetup parties in cities all over the world.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, won the most awards at the interactive media industry's night of nights, including the coveted People's Choice.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace today announced it expects to surpass 1,000,000 posted projects in late March and is celebrating the milestone by giving away US$20,000 in cash prizes to the Freelancer.com community as part of its One Million Projects party between March 25 and 27.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today broke into the coveted top 250 websites worldwide, according to Alexa.com, while noting a massive 30% upswing in traffic for the month of January

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, with over 2.2 million professionals from around the globe, today announced that it had opened regional outsourcing marketplaces in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Philippines.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace which connects small business with freelancers from around the world, today announced their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs with the release of the 2010 Freelancer Fast 50.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced that it had acquired Freelancer.de, one of Germany's top freelancing marketplaces.
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SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace which connects small business with freelancers from around the world, today announced that it had subsumed EUFreelance.com, bringing it into the Freelancer.com global platform.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace which connects small business with freelancers from around the world, today announced that they had broken into top 300 websites worldwide at number 262 on Alexa.com, the popular website ranking system. At the same time, the site announced that it had passed some 900,000 projects posted to date on the global marketplace.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace which connects small business with freelancers from around the world, today surged through 2 million registered professionals.

NEW YORK: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace which connects small business with freelancers from around the world, today acquired LimeExchange.com, the online services run by Lime Labs LLC.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace which connects small business with freelancers from around the world, today took out the Global Growth Award and Best Online Business at the Anthill Cool Company Award Ceremony in Melbourne. In its fifth year, the Cool Company Awards had over 700 organisations nominated, making it the largest business award program in Australia.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, announced today their findings on the fastest growing online outsourcing jobs in Q3 with the release of the Freelancer Fast 50.

LONDON: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace with over 2 million professionals from around the globe, today relaunched Freelancer.co.uk as the United Kingdom's largest outsourcing marketplace.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com announced today that Chief Executive Matt Barrie won Alumni of the Year from the faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Sydney.

SYDNEY: Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, will lend his insight to tonight's Pearcey Awards during the panel discussion on research commercialization.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace with over 1.8 million professionals from around the globe, is now open for business in the land downunder. Today Freelancer.com.au went live, connecting Australian small businesses and consumers to the world's biggest online workforce.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced a global US$25,000 competition to promote Freelancer.com.au to the people of Australia ahead of a yet to be announced Australian launch.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace with over 1.8 million professionals from around the globe, has set up shop in the land of the long white cloud. Today Freelancer.co.nz went live, connecting New Zealand small businesses and users to the world's biggest online workforce.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace today smashed through 1.8 million registered professionals worldwide and 800,000 completed projects.

SYDNEY: TemplateMonster.com, the Internet's largest templates provider, and Freelancer.com, the world.s largest outsourcing marketplace for small businesses, today announced a strategic partnership to offer tens of thousands of Template Monster products to 1.8 million registered professionals on Freelancer.com, as well as to small businesses worldwide.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced that their virtual items superstore, Freemarket.com, has dramatically increased the earnings potential of their extensive community of online designers and programmers.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced Altruisio, the world's first charitable robot, as winner of the US$30,000 Freelancer.com API competition.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced that over 10 million bids have been placed on projects posted on the site.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today announced the acquisition of Freemarket.com and simultaneous launch of an online marketplace for buying and selling virtual goods. Stocked with content by Freelancer.com's rapidly growing userbase of over 1.7 million registered professionals, Freemarket.com aims to be the world's top marketplace for buying and selling digital content.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's largest outsourcing marketplace, today reached a whopping US$60 million in outsourced work. Additionally, on July 13th Freelancer.com broke into the top 400 most visited websites globally at position #396 (according to Alexa.com).

SYDNEY: Matt Barrie, Chief Executive of Freelancer.com, the world's number one outsourcing marketplace, will be chairing a panel session on outsourcing at the world renowned Summit Series in Washington DC.

SYDNEY: Matt Barrie, Chief Executive of Sydney based Freelancer.com, the world's number one outsourcing marketplace and largest website served by a wholly owned Australian company (according to Alexa), will host a seminar entitled .How to Turbocharge Your Small Business With Online Freelancers. at the leading IT conference, CeBIT Australia.

SYDNEY: Web traffic to Freelancer.com, the world's number one outsourcing marketplace, accelerated in April to an incredible 40 percent month on month growth, blasting it into the top 500 websites worldwide, according to Alexa.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 outsourcing marketplace for small business, today announced an API contest with prizes totalling in excess of US$30,000.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 outsourcing marketplace for small business, today released the FreelancerAPI, the world's first sophisticated API for tasking humans from software.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's number one outsourcing marketplace, today announced the winner of the .Design Our T-Shirt. competition.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 freelance outsourcing marketplace today smashed through 1.5 million registered professionals from 234 countries and regions worldwide.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 freelance outsourcing marketplace today became the largest website run by an Australian company according to Alexa.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace is now the most popular outsourcing website in the world for users and jobs, topping almost 1,100 jobs per day and 640,000 jobs posted to date.

SYDNEY: Matt Barrie, Chief Executive of Freelancer.com, the world's #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace will be presenting at Funding Connect in Sydney on April 22nd 2010.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace announced the winner of their global "Expose Our Logo To Win US$10,000" Competition.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace today announced the top finalists for the "Expose Our Logo for $10,000" Competition.

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace today announced that it had acquired the UK freelancing website Freelancer.co.uk

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the world's #1 micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced that earnings generated through the site by freelancers had exceeded US$50 million.
Roughly equivalent to half a billion dollars in Western world labour

SYDNEY: Freelancer.com, the worlds top micro-outsourcing website today launched the first category dedicated to the building and development of Apple iPad applications.

Paris: Freelancer, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced a global competition to create exposure for the company's new logo at the LeWeb Paris 2009 conference.

Sydney: Freelancer, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced that the winner of the US$15,000 global logo competition was Edward V. Sutrisno from Indonesia.

Sydney: Freelancer, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced that over 500,000 freelance jobs have been posted to date through the website.

Sydney: Freelancer, formerly known as GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced that its rapid growth in traffic has thrust it into the top 1000 websites worldwide, according to Alexa.

Sydney: GetAFreelancer.com, the world's top freelance jobs microoutsourcing marketplace, today announced that it has acquired the domain Freelancer.com and will now be known as Freelancer.

New York/Sydney: GetAFreelancer.com, the world's top freelance job micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced that its user base had passed one million registered users.

New York: GetAFreelancer, the world's top freelance jobs micro-outsourcing marketplace, today announced a global design competition to develop the website's new logo.