Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ikea, a Swedish company famous for its flat-pack furniture and meatballs, has bought TaskRabbit, the Uber for getting people to do ...

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 customers love the furniture — but they don’t always love putting it together. With its acquisition of TaskRabbit, the on-demand service and errand platform, Ikea hopes to make it easier for ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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 ...

Ikea customers love the furniture — but they don’t always love putting it together. With its acquisition of TaskRabbit, the on-demand service and errand platform, Ikea hopes to make it easier for ...