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

The Next Web

Cooper also noted that the winner will be interviewed to become a part of the oDesk team, so there’s also a hiring effort taking place. Among other fastest-growing client countries one can also find Latvia, Pakistan, Romania, Lithuania, and Malaysia. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Profiles and Interviews'

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SumUp raises $895M in debt to double down on its B2C payments business

TechCrunch

The company is already active in 33 countries (most recently Chile, Colombia and Romania) and has some 3 million businesses as customers. “We have very stable cash flow, which allows us to take on debt,” he said in an interview. Nor is SumUp interested in cryptocurrency, another area where the other two have been active.

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Flagright offers transaction monitoring with usage-based pricing

TechCrunch

“I used to run the product team at a fintech startup in Lithuania, and one of my responsibilities was compliance and fraud prevention,” Ozkan said in an email interview. You simply integrate, click ‘Activate,’ and it works.”

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Grover grabs $330M to double down on the circular economy with consumer electronics subscriptions

TechCrunch

Grover doubled subscriptions and business in the last year, and it currently has half a million items in its catalogue available for subscription, 2 million registered users and 250,000 active customers (some are subscribing to use more than one gadget). That growth has been riding on several concurrent market trends.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

X CEO claims the company formerly known as Twitter is almost breaking even “I’ve been at the company eight weeks,” Yaccarino said in her first broadcast interview since taking on her new role. The original @Twitter handle is now inactive, and its bio reads, “This account is no longer active. Follow @x for updates.”

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Americans still believe they live in a compassionate country, report shows

Fast Company Tech

As the granddaughter of immigrants from Lithuania and Poland who spoke little English, I understand what its like to be treated as a stranger in America. The researchers who worked on the Ali Center report interviewed more than 5,000 U.S. Compassion comes easily to me. The center has created an index it calls the net compassion score.

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