A partnership between Airbnb and What3words means you can now use your phone to navigate to a tent deep in the forest of northern Mongolia. What3words gives every 10-foot-square patch of the Earth a three-word label, providing a digital locator not just to homes and businesses but to sites that don’t have addresses. For example, …
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Airbnb is serious about business travel. To back that up, the home-rental company on Monday shared updates about how people use its professional community, which was recently rebranded as Airbnb for Work to “better encompass the unique benefits only Airbnb can offer today’s modern workforce.” Airbnb for Work bookings tripled from 2015 to 2016, and then tripled again from 2016 …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. A different view of these countries. Airbnb; YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Silicon Valley and Donald Trump have rarely been snug bedfellows. Their respective views of the world don’t readily accommodate each other. So, as the US president makes his State of the Union address …
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On Tuesday, Airbnb made booking for a group less painful by adding a split payment option. This means one person doesn’t have to float the tire cost of a rental for a group. The new feature was a top request when Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky took to Twitter a year ago to ask: “If Airbnb could launch anything …
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Once a foe to landlords, Airbnb is now working with some of them. The home rental site announced Sunday that it’s partnered with San Francisco’s largest residential landlord, Veritas Investments. The idea is to let tenants in Veritas buildings list their apartments on Airbnb for short-term rentals and then share the profit with their landlord. “Veritas is a leader and …
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Airbnb wants to serve you dinner. The home-rentals company on Wednesday said it’s starting to offer restaurant reservations in 16 US markets through its app. The startup Resy, which Airbnb invested in earlier this year, is powering the restaurants data and running bookings. “We’re really excited to make it incredibly easy to book great food,” Joe Zadeh, vice president of …
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It appears to be a lucrative time in the on-demand world. Companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, WeWork and TaskRabbit are expected to keep gaining users and bring in more money. Revenue from the on-demand economy is expected to double by 2022, according to a new study by market research firm Juniper Research. The company forecasts that this sector will reach …
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Airbnb might soon be rolling out the red carpet in attempt to be more posh. The company is rumored to be adding a new luxury tier for its offerings. As reported by Bloomberg, the San Francisco-based home rental company has been working internally on a new level of high-end rentals (penthouses, mansions and the like) called Airbnb Lux. This follows …
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Airbnb may make it socially acceptable to stay in a stranger’s house, but that doesn’t mean it’s not awkward when you have to ransack the house to find the recycling bin. That’s why designer Isil Uzum created a concept for mapping an apartment with augmented reality. It’s just the fit for an Airbnb app using Apple’s ARKit software for augmented reality. …
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