In the past six months, as valuations for many of the biggest on-demand companies have stalled or backslid, it’s become painfully clear that there’s a world of difference between a service that’s ...

“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 ...

Leah Busque was raised in a town so small that it had no streetlights. When she was 18, she left home in Massachusetts for rural Virginia, to study at a tiny women’s college where dairy cows roamed ...

An email with the subject line “Tipping is coming to TaskRabbit!” sounded like positive news to Toby, who works as a handyman in New York City on the popular odd-jobs platform. But buried at the ...

A rabbit revolution is brewing at TaskRabbit, the site for arranging odd jobs. The San Francisco company last week overhauled how it matches workers with assignments for housecleaning, home repairs, ...

Leah Busque imagines a workforce where employees are less reliant on traditional jobs and embrace what she calls "micro-entrepreneurship." Busque's company, TaskRabbit, is among several companies ...

TaskRabbit, the San Francisco startup that has made a name for itself by helping people connect with odd jobs, is now a place where you can find a real job too. Today TaskRabbit is launching a new set ...

Uber is exploring the idea of launching a service similar to TaskRabbit where folks can call on someone to carry out everyday tasks that they themselves don’t want to do, according to a recent ...