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New Players In Short-Term Vacation Rentals

Doug Lansky | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Airbnb, Tripping, Homeaway, tripping.com, Flipkey, Roomorama, Vacation Rentals, Peer-to-Peer, Slidepollajax, Rentals, Property, Travel News

There's a new kid on the vacation rental block.

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The Evolution of Online Trust

Leah Busque | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Collaborative Consumption, Airbnb, Startups, Taskrabbit, Trust, Online Identity, Relayrides, Small Business News

Listening to problems, owning up to mistakes when necessary, responding at lightning speed, and diligently protecting user privacy are the cornerstones of trust-building customer service.

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A Minor Diversion: Playing House In A Vacation Rental

Diya Luke | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: HomeAway.Com, Airbnb, Istanbul, interhome.com, Vacation Rentals, Penang, Travel News

In Penang, we stayed at an ultra-luxury two bedroom beachfront apartment with a private beach, pool, tennis court, playground and daily maid service for $110 a night.

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San Francisco Cracks Down On Airbnb

Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Airbnb, Residential Conversions, Airbnb Taxes, San Francisco Airbnb, Airbnb Sf, San Francisco Sharing Economy, San Francisco Taxes Airbnb, Airbnb Tax, Airbnb Hotel Tax, San Francisco Hotel Tax, San Francisco News

In a decision issued by Treasurer Jose Cisneros earlier this week, San Francisco will no longer exempt from the city's hotel tax online booking sites ...

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You Could Be Making Money Off Your Spare Space

Emily Cohn | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Airbnb, Rent a Room, Cheap Travel, Money Saving Tips, Airbnb Site, A Dollar a Day, Make Money, Poll, Airbnb Review, Rental Income, Money News

Welcome back to A Dollar A Day, where every day we'll dish out creative and quirky ways to save on your living expenses. If making last month's re...

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WATCH: How To Avoid Drab Chain Hotels

La Carmina | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Lacarmina, Apartment Rentals, Travel News, Travel Video, Travel, Travel Tv, Airbnb, Hotels, Video, Travel Tips, Trips, Slideshow, Boutique Hotels, Vacation, La Carmina, Slidepollajax, Rentals, Vancouver, Apartments, Rome, Italy, Canada, Travel News

In the past, vacationers booked chain hotels because they knew what they were getting into. Now it's easy to find user reviews online and take a reasonable risk.

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PHOTOS: Airbnb Unveils Design-Savvy New Digs

Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: San Francisco Start-Ups, Airbnb, Airbnb San Francisco, San Francisco Design, San Francisco Office Design, San Francisco Startups, Airbnb Remodel, Slidepollajax, Airbnb Office, San Francisco Real Estate, San Francisco Around Town, Office Design, San Francisco News

The good folks over at Business Insider made us all insecure about our cubicles last month when they revealed photos of the new office of San Francisc...

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Pamela Anderson Ready To Rent

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Homeaway, Housing Market, Vacation Rentals, Second Home Market, Housing Crash, Hamptons, Home Prices, Baywatch, Malibu Colony, Vrbo, Real Estate, Second Homes, Pamela Anderson, Business News

Pamela Anderson has been a poster girl for many things, and now she may become the face of the sluggish high-end real estate market. The former "Baywa...

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Communities In Space: How Re-Framing Our Spaces Can Reshape Our Future

Matt Cynamon | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Brooklyn Rescue Mission, Zucotti Park, Occupy Wall Street, New York News

On September 16th, Zucotti Park in lower Manhattan was much like most public spaces in the city. Lined with trees, granite sidewalks, and a handful of...

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Of Pigs, Pythons and Web Startups

Mahendra Ramsinghani | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Mergers and Acquisitions, Airbnb, Investing, Small Business, Tech Startups, Ipo, Technology Bubble, Startups, Twitter, Fred Wilson, Secondary Markets, Venture Capital, Venture Funds, Small Business News

One of my portfolio companies has venture capitalists and angels stampeding over each other to invest. All of this when a recent WSJ report bemoaned the fact that Web startups have hit a cash crunch. So which is it: a stampede or cash crunch?

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Millenials: Stop Protesting Wall Street and Build a Startup

Jason McCabe Calacanis | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Millenials, Startup, Small Busines, Occupy Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Startups, Startups Wall Street, Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital, Wall Street, New York, Secondmarket, Small Business News

It's lame to protest for more jobs when you will so easily create them by starting a company. Now get out of your tents, learn to code and make something that changes the world.

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Need To Pee? There's An App For That

Inae Oh | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Iphone, Airbnb, Internet, Social Networking, Couchsurfing, Cloo, Airbnb Scam, Technology, iPhone Apps, New York News

New Yorkers know too well what it's like to run around town pee-pee dancing toward the nearest accesible bathroom. Images of the worst case scenario s...

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Nightmare Renters From Airbnb

Hemanshu Nigam | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Airbnb Scam, Hemanshu Nigam, Internet Security, Rental Market, Renters-Rights, Ssp Blue, Technology News

Until recently, Airbnb was not tossed around in the average news cycle. However, since a story recently broke about malicious use of rented property and Airbnb's apparent woeful management of the crisis, the name is everywhere... and not in a good way.

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Local Startup To Offer Property Protection After Customer's Home Ransacked

AP | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Airbnb Burglary, Airbnb Vandalism, Airbnb Property Protection, airbnb.com, San Francisco News

SAN FRANCISCO -- A company that connects travelers with people renting out their homes will soon offer property protection after a host in San Francis...

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Another Airbnb Victim Opens Up: 'There Were Meth Pipes Everywhere'

TechCrunch | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Airbnb Scam, Airbnb Review, Airbnb Victim, Technology News

This last week we've all watched in horror as the story unfolded about an Airbnb user who had her home ransacked a month ago. Other than the sidesh...

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Plot Thickens In Airbnb Vacation Rental Horror Story

usatoday.com | With Kitty Bean Yancey, Laura Bly and Jayne Clark | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Airbnb Scam, Airbnb Review, Technology News

When a San Francisco blogger named "EJ" wrote a riveting account of how she returned from a week-long business trip last month to find that her home h...

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Woman's House Trashed After She Uses Online Home-Renting Service

TechCrunch | Michael Arrington | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Internet, Brian Chesky, Technology News

Until now everything has been just great for Airbnb, a service that lets people rent out their homes and become a sort of mini-hotel. The company laun...

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Online Room Rental Startup Airbnb Scores $112 Million in Financing

Reuters | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Investing, Startups, Tech Startups, Small Business, Venture Capital, Tech Bubble, Small Business America, Business News

Airbnb, a website that lets travelers rent rooms in private homes around the globe, has secured $112 million in a second round of financing from Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global and General Catalyst.

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Site Lets You Rent A Country...For $70K A Night

Mashable | Posted 06.15.2011

Read More: Airbnb, Rent a Country, Airbnb Site, Technology News

Sometimes, a couch just doesn't cut it. For travelers looking for a bit more bang for a lot more bucks, vacation rentals startup Airbnb has added extr...

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Not Your Grandmother's Miami -- On A Budget

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Miami Beach, Airbnb, Little Havana Restaurant, Books & Books, The Red Lightflorida Travel, Mondrian, Bruce Weber, Miami City Ballet, Art Basel Miami Beach, Magic City Farm, Fountainebleau, Miami Travel, Budget Travel, Travel News

Miami is still a place to bask in the sun, but there's far more to look at, listen to, and eat than I'd ever imagined. Call me old-fashioned, call me ultra-chic: I love Miami.

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Foreclosures Boost Rental Site Listings

Bloomberg | Ari Levy and Dan Levy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgages, Hotels, Airbnb, Rental Market, Homes, Craigslist, HomeAway.Com, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Bed and Breakfast, Business News

For Airbnb -- along with Craigslist and rival rental sites like HomeAway.com Inc. -- the threat of foreclosures is bringing a surge of listings. Local...

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