Friday, March 15, 2019

Arrow Electronics Launches Freelance Marketplace

Centennial, Colorado-based Arrow Electronics, the big technology services and solutions provider, is hoping to tap into the crowdsourcing marketplace with a new service called ArrowPlus, the company said this week. According to the company, its new service--powered by Freelancer.com--gives both Fortune 500 companies and "innovative technology creators" a way to tap into a marketplace for a million skilled electronic and electrical engineers. The financial arrangement between the two companies was not announced. Arrow said it is looking for companies in the consumer electronics, transportation, healthcare, industrial, Internet of Things (IoT), telecommunications, biomedical, cloud security, firmware, hardware, and other connected products.