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Silicon Valley firm Khosla Ventures makes a rare Seattle investment, leading $11M round for Lexion

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Khosla founded Sun Microsystems and launched his VC firm in 2004. Elwany previously worked as an engineer at Microsoft on artificial intelligence and Baird is an engineer who came from web development firm Pancake Labs. Lexion founders Emad Elwany, Gaurav Oberoi and James Baird. Lexion Photo).

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The Economist on online freelancing and the future of work: crowdsourcing goes mainstream

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Over the past few years a host of fast-growing firms such as Elance, oDesk and LiveOps have begun to take advantage of “the cloud”—tech-speak for the combination of ubiquitous fast internet connections and cheap, plentiful web-based computing power—to deliver sophisticated software that makes it easier to monitor and manage remote workers.

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Professional services are the future of the economy - Trends in the Living Networks

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And if you want some translation, some writing, or some translations or web development, you can go on and ask for anyone around the world to put in their bids, and they can choose whoever is going to do the best jobs at the lowest price. These are professionals working globally. m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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Tech Blogs – Best Must Read Tech Resources 2019

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It twice won the Bloggies for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. Apiumhub Tech Hub is a blog that specializes in software architecture, mobile app & web development. They thrive on community collaboration to help create a premiere resource for open source software development and distribution. Apium Tech Blog.

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Seven MegaTrends of Professional Services - #6 Globalization - Trends in the Living Networks

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eLance allows organizations to specify the services they require, whether they be web development, graphic design, writing, adminstration or whatever else they need done. It is no longer possible to ignore the fact that the economy is global. A pointed example is eLance, the world’s largest online services exchange.

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Top Tech Websites 2019

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It twice won the Bloggies for Weblog of the Year, in 2004 and 2005. Apiumhub Tech Hub is a blog that specializes in software architecture, mobile app & web development. They thrive on community collaboration to help create a premiere resource for open source software development and distribution. Apium Tech Blog.

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Inside the world of aviation, space and defense news with the team behind Hype Aviation

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Internet got more popular, more important, more and more companies wanted to have websites. So in that job at that time, I started to get into web development, just taught myself, and wanted to do more on the technical side of things. And at that time, I was actually working in print in the early 2000s. Isaac Alexander: Yes.

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