Recently Freelancer.com announced the launch of a dedicated regional website (www.freelancer.ph) with the objective to support small business owners, freelancers and entrepreneurs in the Philippines. Freelancer.com reported as of 2009, 99.60% of the business enterprise economy micro, small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). Many of these organisations require specific skill sets which may not be readily available in their immediate demographic. With the launch of the new site, businesses are now able to hire workers from the other side of the globe to enable their business or organisation to grow and support their local economy without having to relocate overseas to achieve entrepreneur success.

Freelancer.com recently celebrated a milestone of one million projects posted by holding over 82 Freelancer.com One Million Projects meet up parties in cities all over the world.

As part of its ongoing drive to roll out local presences for the freelancer brand, the Australian marketplace soft-launched freelancer.co.uk at the beginning of December. Activity was limited with the Christmas period looming, but Freelancer CEO Matt Barrie came to the UK to help launch the site.

GetAFreelancer.com today announced that it has acquired the domain Freelancer.com and will now be known as Freelancer.

LimeExchange today announced the creation of a new community portal for Joomla developers. Driven by the popularity of Joomla related projects on its services marketplace, LimeExchange has developed a wide variety of tools and services designed to make it easier than ever to build powerful websites based on the Joomla platform. These services include: Free web hosting optimized for the Joomla platform, with the latest version pre-installed and integrated.