On-demand house cleaning service Homejoy is shutting down, after talks of an acquisition by its biggest competitor and a failure to raise enough money to keep things moving. Confirmation of the ...

Homejoy, which rents out cleaners and other workers straight to your door, is closing down at the end of the month. According to reports, it has struggled to attract new funding, and has run into the ...

A cleaning company charges north of $85 for a 2.5-hour house cleaning, but to rope in as many new customers as possible, it offers the service for a promotional price of $19. Guess what happens when ...

Homejoy, the at-home cleaning service that’s one of a new breed of startups serving as a broker of on-demand services, is shutting down, as companies in that category face legal challenges aimed at ...

The recent spate of worker misclassification lawsuits against on-demand service companies appears to have claimed its first victim, with home-cleaning company Homejoy announcing Friday that it planned ...

On the heels of HomeJoy’s failure, the fundamental “on demand marketplace” model has come into question by investors, the media, and even consumers. That questioning is very relevant as there has been ...

Though the startup had struggled to raise enough money to stay in business, CEO Adora Cheung says the “deciding factor” was the four worker classification lawsuits it was facing. Gig economy companies ...

On the heels of Homejoy’s failure, the fundamental “on-demand marketplace” model has come into question by investors, the media and even consumers. That questioning is very relevant, as there has been ...

Homejoy, a San Francisco house-cleaning and repairs company that epitomizes the new breed of on-demand tech startups, appears to be struggling and is now for sale. Bigger rival Handy of New York is in ...

Yes! This is a second bite at the apple for a founder that seems determined to make this housecleaning thing work. I bet he's making some key changes we don't even know about. I love it! I just wish ...

Homejoy, the cleaning service that shuttered back in July, is making a comeback under the moniker “Fly Maids”–and has a plagiarized website to boot. In a Medium post published Wednesday, a former ...

Three more companies in the exploding on-demand economy have been sued over their labor practices, a day after it emerged a class action lawsuit was pending against grocery startup Instacart. The ...