The controversy about the human curators behind Facebook Trends has grown, since the allegations made last week by Gizmodo. Besides being a major headache for Facebook, it has helped prod a growing ...
Last week, I visited Cisco Systems’ new, er, workspace-meets-product showroom in midtown Atlanta, a slick ribbon-cutting type affair attended by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, and ...
Remote employers offer so-called 'clickwork' from home. In some cases, you can be asked to check the performance of computers. In other cases, you're tasked with writing or translating texts, ...
Alexandr Wang briefly became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at 24 by supplying artificial intelligence companies with the one thing they all need: humans. Hundreds of thousands of them.
Services from Amazon, Uber and Airbnb are available at the touch of a screen. Yet who are the workers who fulfill our wishes when we click? How much do they earn? Do their jobs have benefits?
Digital jobs are distributed on internet platforms. They've given rise to an entirely new terminology: Cloudworker, crowdworker, gig worker or clickworker. Here’s a rundown of what they mean.
Clickworker.com (Humangrid), the European paid crowdsourcing platform and a competitor to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, has picked up a new client: U.S. high-school sports media network Swink.tv. Similar ...