Community-powered hotel alternative Airbnb today launched Neighborhoods to help travelers pick places to stay in communities best suited to their particular tastes.
Living up to its potential as a community-powered hotel, Airbnb today changed its policies to allow do-gooders to offer up their spare spaces free of charge to displaced victims of superstorm Sandy.
Mobile now accounts for 26 percent of all traffic to Airbnb, the community-powered hotel alternative that lets people list and book everything from couches to castles.
Dave McClure is one of the most prominent angel investors in Silicon Valley -- and possibly the world. His accelerator, 500 Startups, will fund its 500th company sometime this year. And no, in answer to "all the stupid questions," 500 Startups will not shut its doors after reaching that number.
He may also take the prize for most F-bombs per sentence of any investor.
Courtesy of Airbnb, 60,000 people couch-crashed, apartment-surfed, castle-raided, and island-borrowed on Saturday, August 4.
No longer just renting out other people’s couches, casas, and castles, Airbnb, with the launch of Wish Lists, is today selling fantasy.
Airbnb is the four-year-old San Francisco-based startup that offers travelers a people-powered alternative for finding a place to …
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 …
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.
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Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk was one of world’s top spammers when he was a Harvard student, alleges his college roommate, Aaron Greenspan, in a blog post. The angry first-hand account also accuses Airbnb and Facebook of violating federal and state …
First Airbnb asked us to open our doors to travelers from around the world. Then it beckoned us to stay with other members who had also opened their homes to travelers. But that wasn’t enough. Now Airbnb wants your friends …
Wimdu, a startup that offers a social marketplace for travel accommodations, has scored $90 million in funding from European investors Kinnevik and Rocket Internet, reports TechCrunch.
Wimdu’s service allows anyone to offer their personal space, like a house or spare …
