Recently Wall Street Journal, Market Watch, announced CrowdFlower has reported revenue of 300% year over year and 300 million completed tasks. Market Watch advised these figures has CrowdFlower ranked in top position among industry leaders according to independent news agency, Daily Crowdsource.

Recently InnoCentive announced the acquisition of UK-based OmniCompete Limited.

Results from PeoplePerHour.com’s recent Small Business Survey revealed 2011 the year for hiring freelancers as a necessity for a large proportion of UK’s small businesses.

PeoplePerHour.com recently announced the results from their major annual survey, consisting of 1300 small businesses.

Recently Freelancer.com announced they’ve launched a dedicated country marketplace at www.freelancer.in.

Recently Freelancer.com announced their top 20 finalists in its US$25,000 “Expose Our Logo” contest. Freelancers worldwide have taken the contest to new extremes, including skydiving, swimming with sharks.

Recently Freelancer.com released their Fast 50 job trends for the fourth quarter, 2011. Freelancer.com announced an explosion in the technology industry with programming and data entry surging ahead, while Adsense and content writing projects contracted in the third quarter.

Recently 12designer announced 2011 finished strong, with more than 3,000 creative contests receiving more than 330,000 design submissions.