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 ...

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, ...

Uber appears to be developing a new service called “Chore.” The service would work like TaskRabbit — Uber users can hire “taskers” for various small jobs. Will the Uber app compete with TaskRabbit, or ...

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

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An email with the subject line “Tipping is coming to TaskRabbit!” sounded like positive news to Toby, who works as a handyman in New York City on the popular odd-jobs platform. But buried at the ...

“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 ...

Swedish build-it-yourself furniture giant Ikea has finally solved its customers biggest complaint — it just bought TaskRabbit, a company that finds people to...build your Ikea furniture for you. Under ...

Now that TaskRabbit is offline as a result of some kind of hacking issue, you won’t be able to use the service to summon someone to help you out with an everyday task. But that’s a small annoyance ...

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 ...