Tag: Airbnb
News highlights for 17 October 2017 Facebook buys teen app tbh (Reuters) – Facebook Inc has acquired tbh, an app popular among teens, as the world’s largest social network looks to attract more users. The app, an acronym for “To be Honest”, allows users to anonymously answer multiple choice questions about friends, who then receive the […]
PARIS (Reuters) – Business travellers to France are in the sights of online rental marketplace Airbnb, according to a senior official on Thursday at the company best known for hosting holidaymakers. Airbnb For Business was launched in 2015 for companies looking for new and cheaper ways to accommodate staff on business trips and for Airbnb […]
PARIS (Reuters) – French hoteliers cheered on Wednesday a Paris City Council decision making it mandatory from December for people renting their apartments on short-term rental websites such as Airbnb to register their property with the town hall. The ruling comes as Airbnb, much like its ride-hailing peer Uber, is facing a growing crackdown from […]
News highlights for 8 November San Francisco set back for AirBnB could have far reaching consequences SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday rejected Airbnb’s request to block a San Francisco ordinance that forbids the home-rental company from taking bookings from hosts who have not registered their home with the city. Read more… […]
News highlights for 23 October Two-wheel drive: China tech giants bet on ‘Uber for bikes’ in hunt for next unicorn HONG KONG (Reuters) – China’s tech industry giants are sloughing hundreds of millions of dollars into what they’re betting will be the country’s next big internet craze – ‘Uber for bikes’. A symbol of China’s […]
News highlights – 8 September Google wants in – buys cloud software company Apigee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it is acquiring cloud software company Apigee Corp in a deal valued at about $625 million, the tech giant’s latest effort to claim a greater share of the lucrative cloud business. […]
MADRID (Reuters) – Authorities in Barcelona have stepped up a crackdown on homes illegally rented out to tourists via homesharing websites such as Airbnb, ordering hundreds to be removed from listings and hitting firms with a fine, while threatening more in the future. Barcelona is not the only European city to take a swipe at […]
Telcos can learn a lot from digital service providers like Airbnb. Telcos talk of becoming digital, of being more agile and tend to look at companies like Airbnb with a mixture of distant admiration and envy. At a conference session I moderated at MWC last week, the audience came to realise just how important getting […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Airbnb said on Wednesday it plans to form 100 home-sharing clubs in cities across the United States during 2016, seeking to organize advocates of home-and room-sharing companies to head off regulatory crackdowns. These clubs are an extension of the $8.4 million ground campaign Airbnb organized ahead of Tuesday’s election in San […]
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Airbnb is expected to double its nightly bookings this year, investors familiar with the company’s performance said, a sign that the home and room renting site’s battles with regulators have yet to dent its rapid global growth. The website is expected to have about 80 million nights booked this year, up […]
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