Programmers from China and Russia have dominated the TopCoder Open, an annual international competition on everything from writing algorithms to designing components.
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TopCoder, a company known for its competition-based software development services, is turning its sights on the SMB market with a new portal called TopCoder Direct that will come out of beta at the end of October.
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