Freelancer.com, the job outsourcing and freelance IT worker marketplace, has made another acquisition: it has bought vWorker, a job site for freelance coders and other tech professionals. Terms of ...

Nov 19, 2012 Updated Nov 19, 2012 10:52am EST ...

In my experience, if you're in the USA, you shouldn't work for rentacoder or oDesk. It's better to find a recruiter, or do some networking, etc. You'll get a better rate, etc. ••• Quote Report D ...

Poking around on the story, we found something pretty cool. Mark Zuckerberg's RentACoder.com profile from back in 2002.

Sites such as RentACoder and Kasamba, which maintain a network of low-cost coders around the world, offer businesses help with computer programming. But dishonest students have already seized on ...

A 2006 study conducted by researchers at the University of Central England in Birmingham found over 12 per cent of postings on a popular rent-a-coder site were bid requests from dishonest students.