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Australian based Freelancer.com is to open an office in Jakarta. Indonesia’s Trade Minister Thomas Lembong stopped by its Sydney headquarters to meet with its CEO, Matt Barrie and Senior VP of Growth, Indonesian-born Willix Halim.

Microsoft jobs are surging in the online work market on the back of an increasing demand for Windows-related skills, according to a new report from freelancing and crowdsourcing marketplace, Freelancer.com.

Mobile in all its forms is the place to be if you are seeking a job and career in an industry sector which is growing rapidly and needs employees with the appropriate tech skills to drive that growth.

Two international rivals to Australia's Freelancer.com, Elance and oDesk, are merging to create a service with a total of 8 million registered freelance workers.

Australian based online jobs portal Freelancer.com listed on the ASX on Friday, briefly hitting a billion dollars in market capitalisation.

Intel has picked up Aussie company Sensory Networks for a cool $20 million, the latest in a series of big wins for Australian business.

Online jobs portal Freelancer.com will list on the ASX later this year. Founder Matt Barrie has turned down an offer of $430 million, and reckons he can make more money with a public float.

Instagram's $1 billion Facebook deal has proved a hot topic among the most recent crop of Y Combinator graduates. Among them is Nikki Durkin, the 20-year old Australian founder of 99dresses, which secured $17,000 from the most recent round of funding from the legendary Silicon Valley incubator, and who is currently in the US meeting potential investors.

It's a fair bet that 'Five billion people connecting (via the internet) will disrupt the labour markets.' That's the somewhat laconic observation from Matt Barrie, chief executive officer of leading crowdsourcing business, Freelancer.com.

There was a huge rise in jobs for IT professionals skilled in web technologies in 2011, according to one Australian global outsourcing marketplace company, which predicts that this year will see the continued rise of a new generation of Web 2.0 entrepreneurs and further increases in Web job demands.

Sydney-based outsourcing website, Freelancer.com today announced it had reached $US100 million in user earnings, and claimed to have saved businesses about $US1 billion in labour costs.

A new study released today on the outsourcing of jobs has revealed that Android jobs are skyrocketing, with iPhone App Development down 4%.