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 is known for carrying inexpensive furniture. But there is a downside to shopping there — IKEA furniture is famously difficult to assemble. To make the furniture assembly process easier, IKEA ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

For those left baffled by the assembly instructions for an Ikea cabinet, help is on the way. Ikea Group, the international retailing giant known for its ready-to-assemble furniture, announced Thursday ...

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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 ...

Furniture giant Ikea’s decision to buy the popular on-demand service TaskRabbit may seem like a natural move: Ikea sells furniture that needs to be built, and TaskRabbit offers the people to do it.

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.

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 ...