Ted Roden did everything startup founders are told not to do. He didn't have a cofounder and he didn't start a company in his 20's. He started one alone, in his 30's, as a father. When Roden first ...

Three years ago, Ted Roden was sitting in a maternity ward with his wife and newborn baby when he came to a realization. Between his full-time job as a New York Times developer, the book he was ...

Sometimes the smallest, most mundane tasks are the things you really dread — and put off for weeks. Like booking an oil change for your car, or finding a nice play for an anniversary date and buying ...

Apple has announced its Siri Virtual Assistant integration into iOS5. With the sound of your voice, you can ask Siri a number of questions and get answers quickly. Siri won’t help with everything ...

Many of us have spent precious hours on the Internet researching products, hotels or services when we had better things to do. If only we could hand the task to someone else. Well here's a new way to ...

Fancy Hands, a startup which offers on-demand assistants to help you do things like make restaurant reservations and research trips abroad, has launched its first Android app. This news comes more ...

New York startup Fancy Hands is raising one million from top-tier tech investors to bring personal assistants to the masses. New York startup Fancy Hands is raising one million from top-tier tech ...

Fancy Hands, the New York City based startup that lets you book a remote personal assistant to complete tasks for a flat fee, has hired a new CEO to focus on business partnerships and growth, founder ...

Sometimes there's stuff you just don't want to (or have time to) do: research and book travel, plan a family member's birthday party, select the perfect holiday gift, schedule a dentist appointment.