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TaskRabbit Acquires SkillSlate For an Undisclosed Sum [Updated]

Once upon a time in a real-time peer-to-peer marketplace, an auction-based website for local skills met an auction-based platform for
By Nitasha Tiku

Brother, Can You Spare Some Time? Zaarly, TaskRabbit and the Rise of the Convenience Economy

Chad Miller likes to think of running errands for strangers on TaskRabbit as a quasi-religious experience—or at least as close
By Nitasha Tiku

Name Game: The Do-It-For Me, P2P, Online-to-Offline Marketplace

Someone to get you an ice coffee on a hot day at the office. An introductory pasta making class. A
By Ben Popper
Mr. Fishback, via Crunchbase

Zaarly, the Marketplace for Outsourcing Local Errands, Picks Up $14 Million and Meg Whitman

By Nitasha Tiku

Rumors & Acquisitions: Skills And a Gawker-TechCrunch Blog Fight

By Adrianne Jeffries
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