MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/14/13 — , the leading online work marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with IBM to fuel creation of a new generation of apps for the enterprise, powered by the IBM Watson cognitive computing platform. IBM has tapped Elance as their inaugural talent partner to build a Watson Talent Platform.The move comes as a part of that it is opening up IBM Watson as a development platform for entrepreneurial software application providers — ranging
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwired) — 11/08/13 — , the leading online work marketplace, today released its which shows 55,000 new freelance jobs were created and more than 24,000 new people joined the marketplace looking for work. The monthly report aims to supplement the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) October jobs report, which does not fully capture independent workers due to outdated reporting standards. of the U.S. workforce is considered to be independent.Freelancer earnings on Elance
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwired) — 10/04/13 — , the leading online work marketplace, today released its which shows 50,000 new freelance jobs were created and more than 32,000 new workers joined the marketplace looking for work. of the U.S. workforce is considered independent, a category not captured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), with the proportion expected to exceed .Job growth continues to be robust with the number of freelancers hired on Elance up 51 percent compared to the
