Why did Airbnb just buy Localmind? Local expertise

Locals know best. That's the reason Airbnb just acquired Localmind, an expert at connecting inquisitive travelers to locals in the know.

Airbnb rethinks search experience, starts guiding travelers to great neighborhoods

Community-powered hotel alternative Airbnb today launched Neighborhoods to help travelers pick places to stay in communities best suited to their particular tastes.

Airbnb crashes the London Olympics with buy of U.K. rival

U.K. startup Crashpadder has found a permanent home at temp-stay booking service Airbnb.

Airbnb has acquired the three year-old company, which takes a marketplace-for-spare-spaces approach to travel booking, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced Tuesday.

Both startups offer nearly …

House renting service Airbnb has booked 5M travel reservations

Airbnb, the online marketplace where you can rent out your house or spare room to travelers, announced today it has reached a milestone of five million guest reservations overall. The company also celebrated its strong international growth, with property listings …

Airbnb listers in New York average $21k a year

Airbnb, a marketplace for living spaces, has a New York footprint so large that there’s at least one Airbnb rental on every city block, co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich Monday.

New …

How Airbnb failed its way through “the trough of sorrow” to a $1B valuation

Today Airbnb is one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, but it has definitely failed its way to glory.

That made yesterday’s Failcon — a San Francisco event where entrepreneurs revel in their most humiliating defeats — an ideal venue for …

Airbnb revises its property damage policy, offers victims $50K

Travel accommodations startup Airbnb recently revised its policy regarding property owners, who suffer vandalism as a result of using the company’s marketplace of rental spaces.

The policy change is in response to the internet outcry of disapproval over Airbnb’s treatment …

Airbnb’s roller coaster week of ups and downs

Social bed and breakfast marketplace Airbnb started the week on a high note by confirming that it had raised a large $112 million second round of funding that pushed the startup’s valuation to an estimated $1.3 billion. Just days later, …

Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb raises $112M at $1.3B valuation

Apartment sharing startup Airbnb has raised $112 million at a $1.3 billion valuation, confirming past rumors about the hot company.

The San Francisco company lets people travel to places more affordably by letting the book apartments from people around the …