Freelancer.com Acquires Freemarket, Launches Virtual Content Marketplace

Online marketplace for outsourcing Freelancer.com , formerly known as GetAFreelancer has acquired virtual content marketplace Freemarket.com and is relaunching Freemarket's platform under the Freelancer.com brand. Freelancer.com focuses primarily on providing a marketplace for remote workers. Freelancer.com now caters to a user base of 1.7 million small and medium-sized businesses (up from 1 million in October 2009) and says it has outsourced more than 725,000 projects to date.