Upwork, a gig economy platform that matches companies with contractors, started its first day as a public company Wednesday, opening nearly 50 percent above its offering price. Shares of Upwork ...

the president and CEO of freelancing platform Upwork, on this week’s episode of The New Way We Work. Brown noted that, while the overall number of freelancers is increasing, it’s an approach ...

Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk) is the largest and perhaps best-known freelancing website around today, with over four million businesses on the platform. Its sheer size is one of the major draws ...

More and more Filipinos are trying their hand at freelancing online. The online jobs platform Upwork (formerly Elance-oDesk) already has more than 1.4 million registered Filipino users alone.