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txteagle

virtualworkforce

Harness the capacity of 2 billion people in over 80 countries to accomplish work with unprecedented speed, scale and quality.

Overview from the site:

"txteagle helps companies increase productivity, reduce expenses and gain new insights by harnessing the power of a massive, low cost workforce in the developing world.

The company has developed a patent-pending platform that is enabling approximately 2 billion mobile phone subscribers in 80 countries to earn money or airtime by doing work on a phone or desktop computer.

Major applications of the txteagle platform include business process outsourcing (e.g., forms processing, translation, audio transcription, fact checking) and local knowledge gathering (e.g., business information, investment/market research, points of interest).

Founded by former MIT faculty member Dr. Nathan Eagle and Dr. Ben Olding from Harvard’s Statistics Department, txteagle has raised funding from top-tier investors that include Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Flywheel Ventures and Esther Dyson."

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