Ikea, a Swedish company famous for its flat-pack furniture and meatballs, has bought TaskRabbit, the Uber for getting people to do random chores for you. The wholly unexpected move pushes Ikea into a ...

Home furnishings retailer Ikea Group signed an agreement to buy 100% of on-demand services company TaskRabbit in a deal expected to close in October, per a press release. After the acquisition, ...

You can now pay IKEA to help you put together its confusing furniture. The company announced this morning it's rolling out the new TaskRabbit At-Home Assembly service in select U.S. markets where ...

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – Ikea U.S. has announced plans to roll-out the TaskRabbit At-Home Assembly service, now available online in select markets and in six Ikea stores across the U.S. Ikea acquired ...

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 ...

TaskRabbit allows you to hire someone to build your IKEA furniture for a fixed price. Here's how it works. After selecting delivery, I was given a 12-hour delivery window for the date I picked, with a ...

STOCKHOLM/NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Jessica Reznik likes IKEA's prices but not do-it-yourself. So when the Swedish furniture giant said a handyman on odd-jobs site TaskRabbit could assemble her new ...

IKEA is sparing customers the trauma of assembling its furniture by providing “Taskers” through the labor marketplace TaskRabbit, which the retailer acquired in October 2017. The service is currently ...

In yet another surprising union of traditional retail and the tech world, IKEA has reportedly snapped up the on-demand service TaskRabbit, Recode reports. The deal makes a lot of sense. TaskRabbit has ...

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 ...