When you swipe your smartphone and summon someone to clean your house, give you a ride, cook a meal or fix your plumbing, is that person an employee of the Internet company that helped connect you? A ...

Home-cleaning service Handy bills its cleaners as “trusted” and “background checked.” Yet the would-be Uber of household chores didn’t prevent a string of alleged thefts in cities including New York ...

In March, Walmart announced it was partnering with Handy to sell its in-home installation and assembly services in over 2,000 of its brick-and-mortar retail stores. Now, that partnership is expanding ...

What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot. That’s the thinking behind Handybook’s decision to rebrand itself simply as “Handy.” The two-year old company, which provides on-demand home services via a ...

TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have ...

When shoppers check out at Walmart.com with a bed or desk or shelf in their cart, there’s now an option to add assembly with a professional from Handy.com. Simplifying the furniture building process ...