Corporate Report: November 30

Tampa outsource website vWorker acquired by Freelancer.com
The world's largest outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace, Freelancer.com, has acquired Tampa-based vWorker.

Founded by Ian Ippolito in 2001, originally as Rent A Coder, vWorker currently has more than 2.5 million enterprise and professional users from around the world, who have been paid more than $139 million through the site.

Originally focusing on programming and IT-based work, in 2010 the site changed its name and expanded to include a wider selection of work categories including graphic design, writing and more.