Recently Freelancer.co.uk, the UK division on Freelancer.com announced the opening of a local UK office and the appointment of Whichlance.com founder, Saif Bonar, as Country Manager of the United Kingdom.

While undergoing routine maintenance on WhichLance we noticed that CGILance has recently closed its marketplace. The site now feautres a programming related blog.

April 28, 2011- 99designs, the leading crowdsourcing site for small businesses, announced that it had secured an investment worth $35 million. Accel Partners, a global venture capital firm, led the first-round investment, which also had participation from investors like Michael Dearing of Harrison Metal and eBay, Anthony Casalena of Squarespace, Stewart Butterfield of Tiny Speck and Flickr and Dave Goldberg of Survey Monkey.

A global outsourcing platform that offers content solutions such as data authentication and search engine optimization text creation, Clickworker will host Crowdconvetion, a crowdsourcing event which will be held in Berlin on 15th of June, 2011. During the most awaited day, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing companies, customers, experts and investors from the U.S. and Europe will participate and talk about issues related to the sector.

Today, global crowdsourcing innovator Clickworker announced that it secured a Series B financing worth ?4.25 million. Clickworker provides quality-assured content solutions that include data authentication and search engine optimization text creation.

A report made by PeopleHour.com shows an increase chance of digital freelancers in UK of getting hired. The online business location reported the highest record for foreign companies that posted jobs for digital freelancers in UK. The skills that are on high demand include SEO, social media expertise and software development.

On-demand crowdsourced solutions provider CrowdFlower introduced their enterprise Product Categorization solution. The solution is intended for product taxonomy optimization allowing customers to search for particular products of a company in an easier way.

Online business location PeopleHour.com reports large increase in figures for companies outsourcing digital freelancers. The site comes up with this report after covering public sector cutbacks.