If you know your way around the toolbox, you’ve seen many platforms promising to turn your skills into a viable side hustle. Two of the most popular of these sites are Taskrabbit and Handy. Both ...

TaskRabbit, an online marketplace for freelance labor that is part of Swedish furniture chain IKEA, disclosed it has been hit by cybercriminals. On Monday, the San Francisco company took down its ...

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that has made a name for itself by helping people connect with odd jobs, is now a place where you can find a real job too. Today TaskRabbit is launching a new set ...

In 2015, even if you’re not superrich, you can act like you’re a resident of “Downton Abbey” by hiring people via online marketplaces like TaskRabbit to reorganize your jewelry box, hang a picture or ...

A well-respected online furniture retailer is teaming up with a stalwart of the gig economy, a broker for people who do household tasks. The furniture retailer gets better customer service; the ...

The task-busting app lets you hire people to help out around the home or office, but users may have had their personal details exposed TASKRABBIT has been taken offline as its creators investigate a ...

If there’s one thing that TaskRabbit understands, it’s that time is your most precious resource (and secondarily, that you’re probably not as handy as you think you are). Luckily, the on-demand help ...

Uber is exploring the idea of launching a service similar to TaskRabbit where folks can call on someone to carry out everyday tasks that they themselves don’t want to do, according to a recent ...

Who needs to hire an electrician to install a dimmer when you can pull up a video of a random 16-year-old on YouTube explaining it step by step? But not everyone has the time (read: patience) or ...

Before there was Uber or Airbnb, TaskRabbit helped birth the so-called "gig economy." You've probably heard of the startup – an online service lets you pay a contractor to perform any odd number of ...