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Freelance marketplace. Revenue. 421.6 million (2024) [ 1] URL. www .upwork .com. Registration. Required. Upwork Global Inc., formerly Elance-oDesk, is an American freelancing platform headquartered in Santa Clara and San Francisco, California. [ 2] The company was formed in 2013 as Elance-oDesk; after the merger of Elance Inc. and oDesk Corp.
Freelancer has acquired several crowdsourcing marketplaces including Get A Freelancer.com and EUFreelance.com (founded by Magnus Tibell in 2004, Sweden), [4] Scriptlance.com (founded by Rene Trescases in 2001, Canada) [5] - one of the early pioneers in freelancing, Freelancer.de Booking Center (Germany), Freelancer.co.uk (United Kingdom), [6] Webmaster-talk.com (USA), a forum for webmasters ...
A web developer is a programmer who develops World Wide Web applications using a client–server model. The applications typically use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript in the client, and any general-purpose programming language in the server. HTTP is used for communications between client and server. A web developer may specialize in client-side ...
Freelancer. Freelance (sometimes spelled free-lance or free lance ), [ 1] freelancer, or freelance worker, are terms commonly used for a person who is self-employed and not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. Freelance workers are sometimes represented by a company or a temporary agency that resells freelance labor to ...
Web development is the work involved in developing a website for the Internet ( World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network). [ 1] Web development can range from developing a simple single static page of plain text to complex web applications, electronic businesses, and social network services. A more comprehensive list of tasks to which ...
Guru Inc. was founded in 1998 [2] in San Francisco as an online clearing house for high tech workers seeking short-term contracts. The company, led by brothers Jon and James Slavet, raised $3M USD in angel funding and a further $16M USD in a full venture round led by Greylock Partners and August Capital. [2]
Fiverr is an Israeli multinational online marketplace for freelance services. [ 2] Fiverr's platform connects freelancers (sellers) to people or businesses looking to hire (buyers), encouraging a wide range of services in a free market. Fiverr takes its name from the $5 asking price attached to all tasks when the company was founded in 2010 in ...
Web design. Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code and proprietary software; user experience design (UX design); and search engine optimization.