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

The Next Web

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Every part of our organization has members of the team that are distributed all over the world. Focus on the East.

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Sprint Like An Egyptian: A Tech Entrepreneurship Revolution in Alexandria

Gust

Internet connectivity is still sparse but mobile phones are everywhere, with major players and familiar brands aggressively pursuing new markets. Perhaps most importantly, IT and Internet business are simply a breed of their own. Silicon Arabia has engineers in Russia as well as Egypt.)

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Israelis Are Addicted to the Internet [chart]

VC Cafe

I sraelis spend more time on the Internet more than almost every other country (apart from Canada), according to the latest eMarketer report on UK Internet Users and Usage. Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. Mobile is a whole new dimension.

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Israelis Are Addicted to the Internet [chart]

VC Cafe

Israelis spend more time on the Internet more than almost every other country (apart from Canada), according to the latest eMarketer report on UK Internet Users and Usage. Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. Mobile is a whole new dimension.

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Israelis Are Addicted to the Internet [chart]

VC Cafe

I sraelis spend more time on the Internet more than almost every other country (apart from Canada), according to the latest eMarketer report on UK Internet Users and Usage. Israelis are one of the world’s leaders in terms of time spent in social networks, only second to Russia. Mobile is a whole new dimension.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

The government buys and distributes commercial images from startups to supplement their own and shares them with Ukraine as part of a broader intelligence-sharing arrangement that the head of Defense Intelligence Agency described as “ revolutionary.” Today, commercial companies have their own satellites providing unclassified imagery.

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Stuck in the middle with you (an uncut rant)

VC Cafe

Like this catchy song, the Internet is full of innovative sites products put up there by entrepreneurs looking to get a million users, downloads or clicks. If you’re the average Internet user, probably 10-15. based in emerging markets: Russia, China, India. Aggregated, that’s a lot of money.

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