Staff Finder, the European on-demand marketplace for temporary staffing, has closed a funding round led by One Peak Partners and Goldman Sachs Private Capital.
They had launched their site as a marketplace for temporary housing rentals during conferences twice already by that point: once for a design conference in SF, and then again at SXSW in Austin.
It's clear even to energy companies, in other words, that tech's abiding power in the marketplace is not temporary.
TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that runs a marketplace for outsourcing errands and temporary work projects, has laid off a number of staffers as part of a larger restructuring, TechCrunch has learned.
In 2014, just 4percentt of companies who used contingent or temporary contract workers were using online talent marketplaces, according to a survey of 202 companies by Staffing Industry Analysts.
Scientists, for their part, are using temporary positions to get a toehold in the marketplace or to jump fields in midcareer.
They're similar to peer-to-peer product marketplaces, but transactions are based on temporary usage rather than an exchange of physical ownership – which adds significant complexity.
While this transition went smoothly at first, Microsoft encountered an embarrassing bug this week that caused it to put a temporary stop to app publishing to the Windows Phone Marketplace.
Developers who violate Microsoft's new rule will have to face a number of penalties, ranging from the "unpublishing of apps" to "temporary or permanent suspension of an offending developer's Marketplace credentials" depending on the severity of the situation.
