Posts Tagged ‘contractors’

TechCrunch50: Redbeacon is Awarded as the Eventual Winner

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 21:07 By Robert

TechCrunch50 is finally over after witnessing two day successful event. The conference had 50 startup presentations. All had something new and unique about them. However, fortunately or unfortunately, like every event has only one eventual winner, TechCrunch50 too announced Redbeacon as the winner. Redbeacon walked away with the valuable prize money of $50,000. What a [...]

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Iraq’s Oil is Up for Grabs

Sunday, April 19, 2009 21:48 By GSerrano

The invitation applies to big-time developers and financiers, that is. Major industry players the world over will definitely be enticed by the country’s proven reserves of 115 billion barrels, the third largest in the world after Saudi Arabia and Iran. Millions of barrels more lie undiscovered.
Unlike Saudi Arabia and Iran where the respective oil industries [...]

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Recession: The Rise of Contractual Work and Freelancing

Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:54 By GSerrano

When companies tighten their proverbial belts in a time of economic crisis, employment is the first to go haywire. In the U.S. alone, 4.4 million jobs are said to have been lost. In this time of recession, full-time employment has become a shaky concept.
Based on a recent survey, companies are now outsourcing more tasks and [...]

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