Freelancer.com, the world’s largest outsourcing marketplace that connects over 2.2 million professionals from around the globe, opens regional sites inSingapore,Hong KongandPhilippinesto bring affordable outsourcing to these Asian countries. In this day and age, almost any job can now be outsourced online. Through the freelancer.com website, employers can hire freelancers to do work in areas such as software, writing, data entry and design right through to engineering and the sciences, sales & marketing, and accounting & legal services....

Freewrite Traveler review: A one-trick pony, but what a trick A tool for aspiring writers with a lot of cash Lots of words I don’t recognize there. Astrohaus? Freewrite Traveler? Well, aren’t you demanding? But I’ll tell you. Astrohaus is an American company that makes productivity tools. Its first big product wasthe 2014 crowdfunded Freewrite, effectively an e-ink typewriter to help people write distraction free. Now though, it’s releasing a new version of its famous machine: the Freewrite Traveler, a smaller and more portable version of the hardware....

A court decision issued last week fined French company Hi-Media €25,000 (US$36,000) for damages and interest after it was proven that the companyremoved the mentionof competitor Rentabiliweb from a list of vendors in the French Wikipedia’s article onmicropayment. Although the edit was done anonymously, the IP address used to make the revision was traced back to a device belonging to Hi-Media. Hi-Media defended itself with the argument that Rentabiliweb used illegal means to determine the author of this amendment,claiming “the law does not preclude the search for the IP to the extent that this knowledge does not provide access to the person who uses the computer in question....

Spotify looks set to face a new competitor, with news that Paris-based music-streaming serviceDeezeris set to launch in the UK. Asreportedby Brand Republic, Deezer is scheduled to launch in the UK in the coming weeks, and the service follows a very similar model to Spotify. It uses a ‘freemium’ ad-based model, with users able to pay for premium services, which remove the adverts and introduces higher-quality audio. In France, a Premium subscription costs €4....

In recent years, Chinese companies have been substantially increasing their investments in the European Union. From thevineyardsof Bordeaux torobotmanufacturers in Germany andconstructionmachinery makers in Italy, these companies have been on a buying spree of unprecedented proportions. In the EU, the rapid growth has fuelledfearsabout the impact of these investments on jobs, technology, and Europe’s long-term industrial capacity, sparking calls for moreoversight. In this context, some see the investment screening mechanism the EU put in place in 2019 astargetedat Chinese companies....