Contracts/deals: Freelancer.com acquires vWorker

Freelancer.com has acquired international outsourcing marketplace company vWorker.
Mon, 19 Nov 2012

Freelancer.com has acquired international outsourcing marketplace company vWorker.  

vWorker has 2.5m users, 1.3m projects and a turnover of $139m (£87m). Formerly RentaCoder.com, vWorker was founded in 2001.

Matt Barrie, chief executive of Freelancer.com, says: “I am immensely pleased to announce the acquisition of vWorker, which has the absolute best reputation in the industry for sourcing the finest programmers.”

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