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Did you know one of the reasons the popular Skype video chat, text-based messaging and web-based telephone service exists is because of outsourcing? Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom credit Estonian software developers and programmers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn for much of the success of the company they sold to eBay for $2.6 billion.

Those same developers from the Baltic region of Northern Europe were also outsourced by music sharing application Kazaa. The Opera web browser, MindSpark mobile app development company, Milburn iPhone email client solution developer and BaseCamp, a leading web-based project management solution, all relied heavily on freelance developers and programmers to get where they are today.

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