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