Flat-pack furniture retailer IKEA Group has acquired TaskRabbit Inc., a San Francisco-based startup that provides an on-demand hiring platform often used to hire people to put together IKEA furniture.

Leah Busque, chairman and founder of TaskRabbit Inc., poses for a photograph following a Bloomberg Television interview in London, U.K., on Wednesday, April 27, 2016. TaskRabbit, Inc. develops and ...

TaskRabbit Inc., a startup that helped define the "gig economy" of the last decade, agreed to be acquired by Swedish home goods giant Ikea Group. TaskRabbit will remain an independent entity within ...

San Francisco-based TaskRabbit Inc. will bring its online service to Austin in March, promising hundreds of temporary job opportunities to those needing quick cash. San Francisco-based TaskRabbit Inc.