Ikea has expanded its partnership with online home services marketplace Taskrabbit, enabling customers to easily book and pay for Taskrabbit furniture assembly at the time of their Ikea purchase. Ikea ...

Ikea is trying its hand at the gig economy. The Swedish home goods giant just bought on-demand freelance work app TaskRabbit for an undisclosed sum, the companies confirmed. Recode first reported the ...

Ikea is buying a startup that could fix the most annoying thing about the iconic furniture company. The home-goods giant has signed an agreement to acquire TaskRabbit, Ikea announced on Thursday.

To further assist with customers’ assembly needs, Ikea has expanded its partnership with Taskrabbit, according to a Thursday press release. Shoppers can now book and pay for a Taskrabbit contractor to ...

In 2008, TaskRabbit was one of first and highest-profile startups to define the "gig economy", a new model of work for on-demand services. With its app, customers could summon independent contractors ...

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 ...

TaskRabbit has apparently suffered a data breach of unidentified size and scope. It is also unknown whether Ikea had any exposure in the cyber crime. TaskRabbit said it hired a forensics team to ...

Yesterday, IKEA's recently acquired app TaskRabbit announced that it was investing a cyber-security incident. Last fall, IKEA bought TaskRabbit, a San Francisco-based company that helps connect IKEA ...

IKEA and TaskRabbit are a match made in that weird nook between your couch and the wall that leads out to the bathroom. “As urbanisation and digital transformation continue to challenge retail ...