Meta is moving on from non-fungible tokens (NFTs) after less than a year of experimenting with them on Facebook and Instagram. Users will stop having the ability to share, mint, or sell their NFTs on Meta’s platforms, though it’s unclear exactly when. Read...
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Organizations are increasingly turning to freelance talent to fill talent gaps in a slow economy, according to new Upwork report.Read...
Report: 60M Americans performed skilled freelance work in 2022, adding $1.35T to U.S. economy
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Upwork’s Freelance Forward 2022 Report reveals that 60 million Americans, or 39% of the workforce, performed freelance work in the past year.Read...
As developed-world populations increasingly get older, healthcare is being rapidly digitized and ‘platformized’ in order to meet the huge scale of change heading our way. I recently covered how Cera in the UK just raised $320 million to shift monitoring of patients into the home rather than...
Last week, I wrote about Ergeon, the fence-building startup founded by a licensed contractor and the co-founder of Upwork. It employs more than 350 people in over 40 countries and raised more than $53 million to shake up the art of building fences, creating driveways and more on its path to...
Despite developers being deeply involved with tech company product launches and software upgrades, most company executives have very little insight into how these teams actually do their work or how their productivity could be improved. DX thinks it has cracked the code. Back in early 2020, DX...
Five to Nine, which makes event management software, has closed a $4.5 million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures. Launched in 2018, the company’s software lets enterprises plan programs for their employee resource groups (ERGs), which enable employees who share characteristics or experiences...
A new advisory from three U.S. federal agencies is warning businesses of North Korean hackers pretending to be your friendly neighborhood IT professional looking for contract work. Imagine Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but instead everyone’s on the internet, and suddenly it doesn’t seem like an...
Facebook parent company Meta is losing its top crypto executive later this year. David Marcus who leads crypto unit Novi and previously helmed the company’s Messenger unit, announced Tuesday that he will be leaving the company later this year. Marcus joined Facebook in 2014. His departure marks...
Yassir, an Algerian startup that provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, has raised a $30 million Series A round. The investment came from a long list of VCs and angel investors. VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital,...
More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” — after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a...
With so much focus on the ‘creator economy’, and countries hit by the effects of the pandemic, the self-employed market is ‘booming’, for good or for ill. So it’s not too much of a surprise thatCollective,a subscription-based back-office for the self-employed has raised a $20 million...