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Fast Company
Austin Carr |
What Hotel Operators Really Think Of Airbnb Airbnb, the online service which enables hosts to rent out their homes or spare bedrooms, has become a threat to the traditional hotel companies, which are now trying to figure out ways to compete in the sharing economy.   |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Uber's Big Round Of Chinese Funding Could Signal IPO Uber has just secured a round of funding from Chinese investment management firm Hillhouse Capital Group, according to the Wall Street Journal. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Lyft Just Raised $530 Million To Challenge Uber For Ride-Sharing Supremacy Lyft is creeping into new markets, reaching profitability in many of them -- and, most importantly, raking in a ton of cash. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Uber Plans IPO, Could Go Public Within 18 Months The San Francisco-based ride-sharing giant is expected to book nearly $11 billion in business this year and could file for an initial public offering in 18 to 24 months. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Used-Car Startup Beepi Raises $300 Million Beepi, a California-based company that offers a secure platform for finding, buying, and selling used cars, declined to disclose the investors and said the round would be closing soon. |
Fast Company
Rose Pastore |
As Uber Seeks Another $2 Billion, Its Rivals Form Alliance Competing ride-hailing apps Lyft, Didi Kuaidi, Ola, and GrabTaxi have formed a global alliance to share technology and strategy in order the take on Uber. |
Fast Company
Alice Truong |
Airbnb Says It Will Pay Hotel Taxes In San Francisco Cooperating with local regulators, home rental website Airbnb has agreed to pay San Francisco's 14% hotel tax, a week after the company said it would begin collecting hotel taxes in Portland. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
How Airbnb Adapted For China Airbnb announced new strategic partners in China on Tuesday that it hopes will, as CEO Brian Chesky said in a statement, "create a truly localized platform." |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
What The Leaked Uber Documents Don't Tell Us What appear to be leaked internal Uber documents posted on Gawker indicate the transportation company lost significant amounts of money in recent years. |
Fast Company
April 2014
Austin Carr |
Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans Counting beds on offer, Airbnb is already the fifth-largest hotelier in the world, with unparalleled global reach. The startup, whose prices are at least one-sixth cheaper than its traditional rivals, expects to have 1 million listings by the end of 2014. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2011
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
This Is Not My Beautiful HomeAway A ransacked home has vandalized shares of HomeAway. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Harvard Study Finds Oakland's Asian Airbnb Hosts Earn Less Than White Hosts The research paper found that Asian hosts on average earn $90 less per week or 20% less than white hosts for similar rentals. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
Airbnb Unveils A Major Rebranding Effort That Paves The Way For Sharing More Than Homes Brian Chesky is unveiling a brand overhaul that impacts everything at Airbnb, from its advertising and product messaging to its community outreach and web and mobile services. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
Airbnb Gets Personal With New Tools For Hosts And Hints At Better Search In The Future They intend to improve the search experience for those who rely on the service to find short-term lodging, mainly through making it more personal and responsive to users' individual needs. |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Dan Macsai |
The Anxieties Of Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky charts his anxiety level since his rent-a-stranger's-apartment service began. |
Fast Company
Samantha Cole |
How A Startup Grows Up: Lessons From Airbnb's OpenAir Summit Startups can learn a lot from the leaders at a recent summit on the sharing economy. |
Fast Company
Austin Carr |
The Secret To Airbnb's Freakishly Rapid Orgy Response: "Scenario Planning" "Because we're a high-profile company, there are things that will go wrong," Airbnb hospitality chief Chip Conley told me recently. "So how do we deal with the aftermath of things that don't go well?" |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Debuts A Commuter Service In China [Updated] Now that China's leading ride-hailing company, Didi Kuaidi, has forged a partnership with Lyft, Uber is facing pressure to step up its game in the region. |
Fast Company
Sarah Kessler |
Airbnb Is The Latest Tech Company To Hire Big-Name Political Talent Airbnb announced on Thursday that it had hired Chris Lehane, a former advisor to President Clinton, as its new head of global policy and public affairs. |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Dan Macsai |
Update | Dude, Where's my Startup? Ashton Kutcher in May poured a sizable amount into Airbnb, the crowdsourced room-rental website, for which he'll also serve as a strategic adviser. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Uber Relaxes Screening Requirements For California Drivers The company is intentionally easing up on its screening requirements, to give nonviolent criminals a chance to become Uber drivers. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Uber Will Now Deliver Xiaomi Smartphones To Your Door Xiaomi, a Chinese phone giant looking to boost its profile in global markets, is attempting the mother of all publicity stunts: delivering phones to customers by Uber. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Report: Uber Deems China Its "Number One Priority" Since making its way to China last year, Uber has grown exponentially in cities like Hangzhou and Chengdu. |
Fast Company
John Paul Titlow |
Uber Has A Security Problem And This Facebook Vet Wants To Fix It Uber knows it has a security problem and is apparently very serious about addressing it. Today, they hired longtime Facebook security chief Joe Sullivan away from the social networking giant. |
Fast Company
February 2016
Max Chafkin |
Can Airbnb Unite The World? Airbnb, which offers travelers an experience that is more unique and localized has benefited from the shift in consumer preferences to smaller, more localized ideas and products. |
Fast Company
November 2015
Jillian Goodman |
Airbnb's Belinda Johnson On Why Being Too Productive Can Be A Problem For the past four years, Airbnb's chief business affairs and legal officer, Belinda Johnson, has been responsible for Airbnb's regulatory efforts, a tough, sometimes controversial position as the company has grown. |
Fast Company
Pavithra Mohan |
Uber To Lease Cars Directly To UberX Drivers The next natural step for the company, announced Wednesday, is to reduce the barrier to entry for prospective Uber drivers by rejiggering its leasing program. |
CRM
January 2015
Maria Minsker |
Should Businesses Review Customers? Reverse reviews hold customers accountable for their behaviors. |
Fast Company
Drake Baer |
How Airbnb Solved The Mystery Of Predictive Pricing Rather than force users to summon their inner real estate agent, Airbnb set to crafting an algorithm to create predictive pricing. |
Fast Company
Gwen Moran |
How Curalate Turned A Dud Into A Dynamo Curalate would use image-based algorithms to analyze posts and report to brands which of their products people are sharing and discussing. |
Fast Company
Michael Grothaus |
Uber Will Pay $7.6 Million Fine For Failing To Share Data Uber has agreed to pay the state of California $7.6 million for failing to share enough data about the trips users have taken using the service |
Fast Company
Chris Gayomali |
Uber's Trust Problem It's worrisome that a company that has raised $1.3 billion in capital has so publicly shown such a flagrant disregard for its customers' privacy. |
Fast Company
June 2014
Om Malik |
Uber Is the New Google Google may be more than 15 years old and a search-and-advertising behemoth, and Uber may be a five-year-old startup remaking urban transportation. But they think the same. |
