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CloudFactory Expands Mission in Kenya with Launch of New Digital Skills Learning Initiative - May 9, 2019
CloudFactory Launches New Solutions and Partnerships to Accelerate AI Innovation - April 30, 2019
CloudFactory Opens Global Headquarters in U.K., Appoints New CTO to Lead Tech Innovation - June 12, 2018
CloudFactory Announces $7.3M Series B - May 24, 2017
Startups and Fast-Growing Business Now Have Scalable Way to Automate and Outsource Work - April 19, 2016
CloudFactory Introduces Flexible Service and Pricing Model for SpeakerText Transcription Service - Aug. 13, 2015
CloudFactory Receives $2 Million Investment from The Rockefeller Foundation to Tap Skilled Kenya Workforce - Feb. 13, 2015
CloudFactory Raises $3 Million To Build Human-Powered Services into Software Platforms - Oct. 10, 2014
CloudFactory Honored for Leadership in Impact Sourcing - Oct. 30, 2013
CloudFactory Acquires Key Crowdsourcing Competitor and Launches Next Generation Platform - Feb. 27, 2013
CloudFactory announces plans for 5,000 new computer jobs in Nepal this year - Feb. 14, 2013
CloudFactory Raises Growth Capital To Create Jobs for 1 Million People - Sept. 26, 2012
CloudFactory launches at Techcrunch Disrupt SF: a third world startup fighting poverty by connecting businesses to Cloud Labor - Sept. 12, 2012

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Triangle Business Journal - 2019 Best Places to Work Awards (Small Companies) - Sept. 13, 2019
Forbes - The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy - Sept. 2, 2019
Data Engineering Podcast - Data Labeling That You Can Feel Good About - July 15, 2019
AiThority - AiThority Interview with Mark Sears, Founder and CEO at CloudFactory - July 5, 2019
AI Trends - D&B Survey Finds Data Practices Lacking, Creating Opportunity for Data Preparation Firms - June 27, 2019
VentureBeat - Essential tips for scaling quality AI data labeling - June 12, 2019
Forbes - AI Challenges and Why Legal is a Great Place to Kick-Start Great NLP - May 14, 2019
Business Daily Africa - Safaricom in youth digital skills training deal - May 12, 2019
Dataconomy - The Right Workforce Turns Data into Rocket Fuel for AI Projects - May 10, 2019
Forbes - How A High-Growth Social Impact Culture Is Connecting A Million People To Online Work - May 9, 2019
CIO East Africa - CloudFactory expands mission in Kenya with launch of new digital skills learning initiative - May 9, 2019
Robotic Business Review - Why Humans Will Remain at Center of an Automated Workforce - March 18, 2019
Forbes - Successful AI Development Means Fielding the Best Team - January 7, 2019
Forbes - AI Bias and The 'People Factor' in AI Development - November 13, 2018
WRAL TechWire - Inside the Big Top Bash: Profiling the 5 Presenters from Stealth to Scaling Up - October 23, 2018
Information Management - Building Artificial Intelligence Aptitudes: Examining Myths and Realities - October 5, 2018
Artificially Intelligent - AI in the Cloud and Around the World with Mark Sears - October 2, 2018
Dataconomy - Why AI is Far from Replacing People - September 20, 2018
EuroNews - AI is Coming to a Workplace Near You - June 14, 2018
InsideBigData - AI Technology and the Critical Role People Will Play in Driving AI Forward - June 14, 2018
EuroNews - How AI is Changing the World of Work and Recruitment - June 13, 2018
ITEuropa - CloudFactory Moves Global HQ to Europe - June 13, 2018
Startup365 - CloudFactory Opens Global Headquarters in UK, Appoints New CTO to Lead Tech Innovation - June 12, 2018
Information Management - 3 Critical Jobs Driving Success with AI Projects - May 17, 2018
SET - Harnessing the power of digital technology in Nepal: CloudFactory - May 4, 2018
Nepali Times - A factory in the clouds - Aug. 18, 2017
ExitEvent - CloudFactory: A Growing Case Study in the Triple Bottom Line - June 19, 2017
Mixergy - The company behind Silicon Valley’s dirty little secret - Feb. 27, 2017
Fortune - 5 Tech Startups to Watch in Durham, N.C. - March 13, 2016
The Wall Street Journal - CloudFactory Raises $2M to Continue Spreading Tech Skills in Nepal, Kenya - Feb. 13, 2015
Triangle Business Journal - Bandwidth's Kaestner part of $3M funder by Nepal outfit with Durham ties - Oct. 10, 2014
Exit Event - $3M VC Deal Gets CloudFactory Closer to 1 Million "Cloudworker" Mission - Oct. 10, 2014
Global Sourcing Council - The Business Case for Impact Sourcing - June 24, 2014
IAOP - Pulse Magazine - Outsourcing is changing the world through impact sourcing - May 14, 2014
The Rockefeller Foundation - The Financial and Social Value of Impact Sourcing - Feb. 21, 2014
Global Sourcing Council - An Interview with CloudFactory, Winner of the 3S Award in Community Engagement - Nov. 15, 2013
World Bank - Connecting to Work: How ICTs Are Expanding Job Opportunities Worldwide - Sept. 10, 2013
Huffington Post - Can You Use Facebook? You've Got A Job In Kathmandu, Nepal, On The New CloudFactory Started By A Digital Entrepreneur - March 5, 2013
TechCrunch - CloudFactory Launches CloudFactory 2.0 Platform After Acquiring SpeakerText and Humanoid - March 3, 2013
NepaliTimes - Crowdsourcing in the cloud - Feb. 22, 2013
KhabarSouthAsia - CloudFactory aspires to create a million jobs - Nov. 29, 2012
GigaOm - Sector RoadMap: crowd labor platforms in 2012 - Nov. 4, 2012
Reuters - Global army of online freelancers remakes outsourcing industry - Oct. 10, 2012
CNBC - Tasksumers Get a Tiny Job, Earn a Tiny Payment. Repeat. - Oct. 10, 2012
YourStory - CloudFactory - Introducing 'Grameen Bank Approaches' To Outsourcing - Oct. 7, 2012
Creators - CloudFactory and the Global eWorker Revolution by Chris Durst and Michael Haaren on Creators - Oct. 4, 2012
TechInAsia - Nepal Startup CloudFactory Raises $700,000 Round of Funding - Sept. 27, 2012
TechHustlers - The Story Behind Mark Sears Cloud Labor Assembly Line, CloudFactory - Aug. 22, 2012
TheBackUpList - Get BIG with CloudFactory - July 17, 2012
TrendHunter - Socially Empowering Digital Apps - CloudFactory Provides Jobs Through an Online Work Force - June 26, 2012
Springwise - Online platform enables outsourcing of digital work and creates jobs in developing countries - June 13, 2012
PSFK - How Cloudsourcing Will Change The Future Of Work - June 2, 2012
TechBlorge - $2 an hour workers join virtual production line - April 19, 2012
The Next Web - CloudFactory - Online Work for One Million People - April 17, 2012
TechInAsia - CloudFactory, From the Heights of Nepal, Can Put 1 Million Cloud Workers Into Business - March 22, 2012
Forbes - How Crowdsourcing Is Tackling Poverty In The Developing World - March 21, 2012
Crowdsourcing - How Cloud Factory Creates Digital Assembly Lines - Dec. 16, 2011
Crowdsourcing - CloudFactory, a Cloud Labor platform for creating work opportunities for people in developing nations - Sept. 16, 2011
Crowdsortium - A new member : CloudFactory - Aug. 26, 2011

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