LONDON: November 19th , 2012– Freelancer.com, the world's largest freelancing marketplace, today announced the acquisition of vWorker, the fourth largest marketplace globally.
London is now the centre of Europe's art market, and is acknowledged as the second largest art marketplace in the world after New York".
Following a very public debut, Jet screamed to what was described as the fourth largest online marketplace.
Freelancer.com acquires the world's fourth largest outsourcing marketplace by volume and second largest by users with 2.5 million users, 1.3 million projects and US$139 million in turnover to date.
Prior to the acquisition, Scriptlance had been the fifth largest freelance marketplace in the world; adding its 360,000 users to Freelance.com now brings the total number of enterprise and professional users on the main site to 4 million.
Zillow, which went public in July, is the world's third largest real estate listings marketplace.
Prosper, today the second largest social lending marketplace with nearly 1.5 million members and $380 million in funded loans, employed an auction mechanism amongst lenders to finance each borrower's loan until 2010.
For employee data portability to take off, the largest marketplaces must be the first to put the best interests of consumers and service providers at the forefront.
I heard of one college student who earned a hundred thousand dollars a year by scalping tickets on StubHub, the largest of the ticket-reselling sites, and TicketsNow, the second largest; both sites are online marketplaces that charge buyers and sellers a commission in return for guaranteeing transactions.
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), one of the world's largest marketplaces for securities and other exchange-traded investments.
