Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TaskRabbit offers the chance to pick up moving jobs, cleaning jobs and all sorts of temporary piecework, with opportunities ...

Odd jobs are as old as time. There have always been folks hiring people to perform tasks they don’t have the time or skills to do themselves. The gig app TaskRabbit makes it easier than ever for ...

A Taskrabbit "Tasker" helps a client with the placement of frames on a wall.Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith says interest in becoming a "tasker" is ...

It’s like Uber, but for the household chores you can’t face doing yourself: from assembling flat-pack Ikea furniture, to cleaning your home, to sorting out problems with your computer. You go online, ...

“Right after we launched the new TaskRabbit, not everyone was happy.” Sitting across the table, Jamie Viggiano, TaskRabbit’s vice president of marketing who has been in the business for nearly 15 ...

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 ...

TaskRabbit offers the chance to pick up moving jobs, cleaning jobs and all sorts of temporary piecework, with opportunities available in more than 70 major metro areas worldwide. The average pay for a ...

The oft-debated recession indicator. Lipstick sales, the "men's underwear index," and … an increase in Taskrabbit applications? There's been an uptick in recent years in the number of people looking ...

Taskrabbit CEO Ania Smith says interest in becoming a "tasker" is way up. There's been a noticeable uptick in applications over the past three years, the CEO told the Decoder podcast. Asked if that ...