Troubled local services site SkillPages has been acquired by Bark

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by Sindy Cator on February 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates, UK

We last wrote about SkillPages, the Irish startup that connected people with local service providers, when it redesigned its iOS app in March last year. Since then the company had a troubled time. It shut abruptly before Christmas with $27 million (€24 million) in debts and a liquidator was appointed. But there’s now some good news – Bark, a British marketplace for service professionals, has acquired SkillPages for an undisclosed amount. Andrew Michael, Bark’s co-founder, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous businesses, LiveDrive and FastHosts, for close to $230 million, told TNW that he is in discussions with SkillPages’ 36 employees.…