There has been a lot of question about fair wage in the thread. So to answer everybody, the fair wage depends a lot on region, currency etc. We partner a lot of with local organization such as NGOs. Many of our members are house wives or are unemployed for whom the big difference having no access to work at all. Average wages vary from $1.50 to $2 per hour (this is in developing countries mind you).

Yes. We take care of all of the above. Locale, currency etc.

We vet tasks (and developers) before they are posted to the live crowd.

We recommend developers to divide data into very small micro-tasks that makes sure that the quality is high and takes care of the privacy concerns. This is what we do in applications we develop in-house.

First of all treating your workers fairly, providing them support and helping them if they are stuck. We have a number of algorithms in place on top of that to make sure that the answers are high quality.

He is talking about his first job. MobileWorks is like a second job for him which he can do from anywhere.

It's not. We believe that paying fair wages would improve the quality of the work which is a very import value proposition for us.

I will just leave this here http://www.mobileworks.com/fairtradework.html Full disclosure: I am one of the founders.

Mark Zuckerberg is the most unethical guy in the industry today. As is obvious by the origins of Facebook, his infamous hacking of the journalists passwords during the the-facebook era and countless other fiascoes that come to news from time to time. Everyone who has ever dealt with him says have bad things to say about him.
If he is the face of the next generation entrepreneurs, then god saves the industry.

You obviously haven't lived in a totalitarian country. My girlfriend is from a Soviet-Era-communist country. She was very young when the communist regime was repelled but she has distinctive memories of the era, how you could only get state television channel, how going abroad was almost impossible, how it was impossible to get foreign made goods, how the country was everything and criticizing the country was frowned upon. In addition, please remember that Antisemitism in Soviet Union was a de-jure policy after WW2. Also remember, that Sergey Brin's parents were academics, which made them an active target of the government. If you live not under a fear of the government but also under the fear of a government openly hostile to your community and your parents are marked people, it makes a pretty damn good impact on your childhood. In addition, do you think as a child his parents would've never talked about their life in Soviet Union ? These are the experiences that shape your thinking. Just because he was young doesn't mean he doesn't know how it was.

Actually money transfer to India is not difficult at all. I use bank and wire transfer and it works fine to transfer money to and from India. The problem is that Indian government wants to keep a full track of where and how money crosses border. It always had. Transfers through PayPal, unless it registers itself as a bank, are difficult to track. That is why the problem.
BTW, for this reason, hawala transfers are illegal in India and have come under heavy fire.

I am not what you call a player but I think you might be looking at the wrong places man !!

Nokia is as big as apple in terms of total assets. They are equal in terms of annual income and bigger in terms of revenue. Nokia equally matches Apple in terms of finances and has more employees. Just because Apple has more presence in US, doesn't mean it can just buy it out.

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In fact, on the contrary it says the the governments should rebutt as many conspiracy theories it can instead of banning them. It never talks about banning any websites. That's just a loads of BS.The article does not say that the theories or the websites need to be banned. It does talk of cognitive infiltration. Which the author feels is justified given the problems conspiracy theories can lead to. It might be right or wrong, in your opinion, however, it is definitely not an encroaching on any freedom of expressions