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

The Next Web

oDesk claims that it dominates the market of online freelance marketplaces with $360 million spent by its clients in 2012; this number for the five closest competitors combined ā€“ Elance, Freelancer, Guru, People Per Hour, and 99Designs ā€“ reaches only $310 million. The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 Vā€™s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. Why Eastern Europe? in GE, 1.3 in GE, 1.3

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Global Multichannel Consumer Behaviour (Research/Purchase) Analysis

Occam's Razor

It takes little money – comparatively – to try a new advertising medium, or improve your website, or build a mobile app, or try just about anything else. The data was collected in the first part of 2012, between January and May for the Barometer and between January and February for the Enumeration.

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[Singapore] Cybercrime Incidents Down In 2013, But Losses Up: Norton

YoungUpstarts

According to the latest 2013 Norton Report by Symantec, the number of online adults who have experienced cybercrime has decreased from 48 percent in 2012 to 37 percent this year, but the average loss per victim has skyrocketed by 75% at S$1,448 from S$826 in 2012.

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[Event] Ukraine, Thailand And US Take Top Spots At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

. “Whether itā€™s using the cloud to aid in disaster recovery, inventing technology to make education more accessible to erase the digital divide or making it possible to diagnose medical conditions using mobile phones, the Imagine Cup has inspired students to imagine what once was considered impossible and make it real.”

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Are Facebook Investors Playing Russian Roulette?

crowdSPRING Blog

For example, there are five major markets where Facebook is not the top social network : China, Russia, South Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While China and Russia are both huge markets, it’s doubtful that their revenue per user will be equal to the revenue per user in Europe or the United States. was around $500 million last year.

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8 Ways To Leverage The ā€œI Like To Watchā€ Ubertrend

ReadWriteStart

How about a meteor falling in Russia ? What came next was a host of candid moments caught by camcorders, surveillance cameras or mobile phones – a wave that virtually guarantees that one day just about everything will be digitally captured. Were you surprised that the Boston Marathon bombers were caught on video? Streaming Media.

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