Yesterday, IKEA's recently acquired app TaskRabbit announced that it was investing a cyber-security incident. Last fall, IKEA bought TaskRabbit, a San Francisco-based company that helps connect IKEA ...

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 announced the agreement in a press statement today. The company said the arrangement will enable Ikea customers to directly access services offered by “Taskers” on TaskRabbit’s platform. Users ...

TaskRabbit has apparently suffered a data breach of unidentified size and scope. It is also unknown whether Ikea had any exposure in the cyber crime. TaskRabbit said it hired a forensics team to ...

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, ...

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 ...

You don’t have to strain your brain too much to understand why Ikea bought TaskRabbit, a startup that provides a marketplace for household chores and other simple tasks. There’s an obvious synergy ...

Furniture giant Ikea’s decision to buy the popular on-demand service TaskRabbit may seem like a natural move: Ikea sells furniture that needs to be built, and TaskRabbit offers the people to do it.