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 ...

The Internet’s having a ball with the news that IKEA is buying TaskRabbit. The deal will make TaskRabbit, the online marketplace people use to hire “rabbits” to help with anything from moving to odd ...

TaskRabbit employees may want to grab an Allen wrench and brush up on their Swedish, because Ikea just bought their company. TaskRabbit, which connects freelance workers with small temp jobs, is one ...

Ikea, the Swedish home-goods retailer, said Thursday that it had agreed to acquire TaskRabbit, a company known for, among other things, sending tool-wielding workers to rescue customers befuddled by ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...