If you know your way around the toolbox, you’ve seen many platforms promising to turn your skills into a viable side hustle. Two of the most popular of these sites are Taskrabbit and Handy. Both ...

A well-respected online furniture retailer is teaming up with a stalwart of the gig economy, a broker for people who do household tasks. The furniture retailer gets better customer service; the ...

If there’s one thing that TaskRabbit understands, it’s that time is your most precious resource (and secondarily, that you’re probably not as handy as you think you are). Luckily, the on-demand help ...

Uber is exploring the idea of launching a service similar to TaskRabbit where folks can call on someone to carry out everyday tasks that they themselves don’t want to do, according to a recent ...

In 2015, even if you’re not superrich, you can act like you’re a resident of “Downton Abbey” by hiring people via online marketplaces like TaskRabbit to reorganize your jewelry box, hang a picture or ...

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco-based handyman app, is expanding to Nashville on Thursday, adding to the city’s quickly growing on-demand services. Customers hire individuals, called “Taskers,” through ...

TaskRabbit, an online marketplace for freelance labor that is part of Swedish furniture chain IKEA, disclosed it has been hit by cybercriminals. On Monday, the San Francisco company took down its ...

Ikea, the Swedish home-goods retailer, said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire TaskRabbit, a company known for, among other things, sending tool-wielding workers to rescue customers befuddled by ...