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Hassle (company)
Helpling (former names: Hassle.com and Teddle) is a Vauxhall, London-based online booking and payment platform that connects customers with pre-vetted local cleaners. In July 2015, the on-demand cleaning marketplace Helpling bought Hassle.com. In June 2014, ''The Times'' listed Hassle.com as one of the top ten disruptive innovation, disruptive digital startups. History Alex Depledge, Jules Coleman (CTO), Jules Coleman, and Tom Nimmo co-founded the company in March 2012. Teddle launched in Shoreditch in late 2012 with the aid of Techstars London (then known as Springboard), and various Angel investor, Angel Investors, before rebranding to Hassle and relocating to Vauxhall in 2013. The founders settled on the name Hassle for the company because they wanted to remove the hassle from people's lives so they could spend more time doing 'the things they love'. Hassle.com originally covered 27 service providers, such as personal trainers and driving instructors, before narrowing their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
E-commerce
E-commerce (electronic commerce) is the activity of electronically buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile commerce, electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. E-commerce is in turn driven by the technological advances of the semiconductor industry, and is the largest sector of the electronics industry. Defining e-commerce The term was coined and first employed by Dr. Robert Jacobson, Principal Consultant to the California State Assembly's Utilities & Commerce Committee, in the title and text of California's Electronic Commerce Act, carried by the late Committee Chairwoman Gwen Moore (D-L.A.) and enacted in 1984. E-commerce typically uses the web for at least a part of a transaction's life cycle although it may also use other tech ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
