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Socializing Vacation Rentals: The AirBnB Guys Speak!
A few weeks ago, BoomTown sat down in a hipster coffee place in a hipster section of San Francisco to talk to the hipster trio of founders of AirBnB. Which, if you think about it, is a very hipster...
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Airbnb Apologizes, Offers $50,000 Guarantee in Hopes of Defusing Security...
Airbnb has sent out a letter to its userbase today in an effort to de-escalate concerns about security on its site, which helps connect people who are willing to rent out their homes to complete...
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Airbnb Isn't Resting When It Comes to Rolling Out New Security Features
After apologizing to its community earlier this week and pledging to do better, Airbnb has continued rolling out a steady stream of new security features that are designed to make it safer for people...
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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV...
After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October. As Walt...
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Airbnb Pumps Up Security With New Hires and Guarantees
Airbnb continues to roll out new security features at a breakneck pace to thwart mounting concerns over whether the site is a safe way to rent out your primary residence to travelers. The heavily...
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Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Hong and More!
With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong. Taking place from Oct. 19 to 21, the...
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Email: Chamath Palihapitiya Decries Airbnb's Recent $112M Funding for Founder...
Here’s some electric weekend reading for those interested in the push and pull between venture investors and start-ups in the frothy Web 2.0 environment. In an email to Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian...
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Airbnb, Investor Chamath Palihapitiya Settle Differences; Employees Will Get...
Former Facebook employee — and newly minted venture capitalist — Chamath Palihapitiya is back involved in a new funding round for Airbnb, after the apartment-sharing company and he discussed the terms...
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our...
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The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now
And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as...
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What Bubble? SurveyMonkey's Dave Goldberg, Joyus's Sukhinder Singh Cassidy...
If you don’t want to call it a “bubble,” that’s up to you. But it’s clear that what’s happening in Silicon Valley is different from what’s happening just about everywhere else: The optimism of the...
View ArticleSurveyMonkey’s Dave Goldberg, Joyus’s Sukhinder Singh Cassidy and Airbnb’s...
Three Silicon Valley founders formed AllThingsD’s first-ever panel of entrepreneurs today at AsiaD. Brian Chesky of Airbnb, Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy of Joyus joined...
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SurveyMonkey's Goldberg, Joyus's Cassidy and Airbnb's Chesky on Silicon...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
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Airbnb's Skyrocketing Growth Includes Four Million Nights Booked in 2011
Travelers have used Airbnb to book a total of five million guest nights in the past four years, staying in spare bedrooms and empty homes around the world. Even more impressive is that a majority of...
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Airbnb Redesign Turns Site Into Airbnb Magazine
Airbnb today is redesigning its homepage and iPhone app to help people explore its inventory of places to stay. The site will now feature glossy “wish lists” of properties, some of them picked by its...
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With Neighborhoods and Local Lounges, Airbnb Becomes a Fodor's for Travel...
Airbnb’s growth has been explosive over the past few years. It’s an alternative to going the usual hotel route, allowing travelers to stay in local homes and apartments rather than the Marriott....
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To VC or Not to VC: Former Square COO Rabois Leaning Toward Khosla Ventures Job
Keith Rabois, the former Square COO who left the company in the midst of unproven allegations of personal misconduct, is weighing an offer to join Silicon Valley venture firm Khosla Ventures,...
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Yahoo Acquires Hipster Mobile News Reader Summly for Close to $30 Million
Yahoo has bought Summly, the mobile news reader app founded by a young British entrepreneur. In a statement, the London-based company said it had bought the tiny outfit, which will close its app. The...
View ArticlePayments Startup Balanced Raises $2 Million
Balanced, a startup that focuses on bringing payments systems to network-based companies like Airbnb and Kickstarter, announced Tuesday that it raised $2 million in venture capital. Andreessen Horowitz...
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Airbnb Now Wants to Check Your Government ID
Airbnb is about to take a very big bet against anonymity. Going further than any significant consumer tech company has before, the peer-to-peer travel accommodation site, valued at $2.5 billion, wants...
View ArticleAirbnb Fights New York Subpoena of User Data
Airbnb just got itself and one of its hosts out of a legal jam in New York City, but late on Friday the company was subpoenaed by the New York Attorney General in an effort to obtain user data that...
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Airbnb Launches New Host Tools, in Bid to Be Known for Its Hospitality
There are lots of sites and services that help people rent space — from hotels to vacation rentals — to other people. In the past few years, Airbnb has become one of the better ones, because its nearly...
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Filling Out Its Executive Team, Airbnb Hires Operations and HR Heads
Airbnb has hired Varsha Rao as head of global operations, and Mark Levy as head of employee experience. Both started this week. In regular company terms, they are effectively the peer-to-peer travel...
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