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 ...

IKEA says that it has singed a conditional agreement that will have it buying 100% of TaskRabbit’s shares. It is expecting the deal to close during October. Once the deal is complete, TaskRabbit will ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ikea is trying its hand at the gig economy. The Swedish home goods giant just bought on-demand freelance work app TaskRabbit for an undisclosed sum, the companies confirmed. Recode first reported the ...

The Swedish home-goods store just acquired the chores-outsourcing company, which is great news for your mental health, since research shows time, not money, is the key to happiness. Soon, instead of ...

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.

Last fall, IKEA bought TaskRabbit with the obvious goal to offer customers help building its notoriously tough-to-construct furniture. Today, the company started allowing customers in select US ...

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 ...

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