TaskRabbit is "going to be a part of the retail transformation from products to services," company CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot said at an Axios event Wednesday at the University of Michigan.
"Most of our clients are millennials who don’t have time, have extra money, want their services on demand and really just want to set it and forget it."— Stacy Brown-Philpot
Why it matters: TaskRabbit was bought by Ikea earlier this year to help customers assemble the company's furniture.
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Sen. Kamala Harris at an event in Wilmington, Del. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
In her first sit-down interview since being named Joe Biden's running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris talked about what she'll do to fight for women if elected VP, and how the Democrats are thinking about voter turnout strategies ahead of November.
What they're saying: "In a Biden-Harris administration women are going to be a priority, understanding that women have many priorities and all of them must be acknowledged," Harris told The 19th*'s Errin Haines-Whack.
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Facebook is seeking to force a face-off with Apple over its 30% in-app purchase commission fee, which Facebook suggests hurts small businesses struggling to get by during the pandemic.
The big picture: Facebook has never publicly gone after Apple, a key strategic partner, this aggressively. Both companies face antitrust scrutiny, which in Apple's case has centered on the very fee structure Facebook is now attacking.