The local buying and selling market only has room for one or two winners. Right now, Craigslist still dominates, despite the fact that it’s overrun with spammers, scammers and looks awful. Zaarly ...

Home services marketplace now available to customers, Taskers, and partners in every U.S. state — doubling down on its mission to transform lives, one task at a time SAN FRANCISCO, August 05, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Department of Management at LSE. Gig economy platforms, which match freelance workers to a local demand for services, such as ...

If you've been looking for a way to earn some extra cash, there are a few reasons why you shouldn't sleep on TaskRabbit as a way to make a profit by using skills you already have. TaskRabbit is a ...

Sorted, the UK startup that originally soft-launched as a reverse marketplace for local jobs akin to TaskRabbit in the U.S. (or a number of local “clones”, such as Sooqini, and TaskPandas), has ...

Etece, a Spanish TaskRabbit style startup offering an online platform for people who need a job doing but don’t have the time to do it themselves, has just closed a €450,000 Series A funding round, ...

TaskRabbit is a hot startup that everyone is buzzing about. Like Zaarly, it is a local network that allows users to post and complete tasks in their neighborhoods. Think Craigslist and Twitter mushed ...

The answer to all your unwanted home chores is now just a hop, skip and a click away. TaskRabbit, an on-demand service that connects people with professional do-it-all handymen called Taskers, ...

It was a snowy night in Boston, in early 2008, and Leah Busque was out of dog food. She couldn’t go to buy some at that hour – she would be late for her dinner engagement. Then it struck her: ‘Why can ...