Ask me about the most binge-worthy show on Netflix or the best holiday shopping spots, and I’m all in. But when it comes to home repairs or turning a stack of Ikea parts into a fully functional desk, ...

TaskRabbit offers the chance to pick up moving jobs, cleaning jobs and all sorts of temporary piecework, with opportunities available in more than 70 major metro areas worldwide. The average pay for a ...

IKEA is known for its inexpensive furniture, but assembling it can be a daunting task. In 2017, IKEA acquired TaskRabbit, which lets users hire temporary workers through the TaskRabbit app to do ...

TaskRabbit helped invent the gig economy by building a network that let users hire independently-contracted “taskers” to perform household chores. But since being acquired by furniture retailing giant ...

Labor-marketplace TaskRabbit is today announcing a $13 million C-round of funding, led by Founders Fund. The C-round will bring the collaborative consumption startup’s total funding to $38 million.

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith says interest in becoming a "tasker" is way up. There's been a noticeable uptick in applications over the past three years, the CEO told the Decoder podcast. Asked if that ...

Odd jobs are as old as time. There have always been folks hiring people to perform tasks they don’t have the time or skills to do themselves. The gig app TaskRabbit makes it easier than ever for ...

“Right after we launched the new TaskRabbit, not everyone was happy.” Sitting across the table, Jamie Viggiano, TaskRabbit’s vice president of marketing who has been in the business for nearly 15 ...

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The handyman-for-hire app sends an email to users Monday recommending they change their password if they've used the same one for different websites. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng ...

The task-busting app lets you hire people to help out around the home or office, but users may have had their personal details exposed TASKRABBIT has been taken offline as its creators investigate a ...

Uncrowned is a new destination for all things MMA, boxing, wrestling, and more, featuring Ariel Helwani. TaskRabbit offers the chance to pick up moving jobs, cleaning jobs and all sorts of temporary ...