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I’m a black man. Here’s what happened when I booked an Airbnb.
This is a story of an AIRBNB experience I recently went through. I met this awesome lady Crissie in my Facebook Group. Super nice lady, successful business owner, beautiful family, and they live in a small town in Idaho. Crissie would post these amazing videos of the land and the snow, and the mountains and trees, and I told her one day I would come visit. It‘s so absolutely beautiful there!
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Welcome to AirSpace
How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world. By Kyle Chayka.
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Airbnb raising a reported $850M at a $30B valuation
Tech unicorn and sharing economy darling Airbnb has informed the State of Delaware that it’s raising another heap of cash. TechCrunch independently verified that Airbnb indicated in a 28 page filing on July 28th that it has plans to bring in additional late-stage capital. Almost a year after its last raise of $1.6 billion, the company is said to be adding $850 million to its coffers, according to information obtained by Equidate.
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Hotel CEO openly celebrates higher prices after anti-Airbnb law passes
A hotel executive said a recently-passed New York law cracking down on Airbnb hosts will enable the company to raise prices for New York City hotel rooms, according to the transcript of the executive's words on a call with shareholders last week. The law, signed by New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday, slaps anyone who lists their apartment on a short-term rental site with a fine up to $7,500. It "should be a big boost in the arm for the business," Mike Barnello, chief executive of the hotel chain LaSalle Hotel Properties, said of the law last Thursday, "certainly in terms of the pricing.”
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Toronto convicts first Airbnb owner over zoning violation
The owner of the house on Glenelia Ave., which was the scene of a shooting in March, pleads guilty to a zoning violation.
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Ontario court ruling says condo buildings can ban sharing services such as Airbnb
With some help from NASA satellites, the Global Positioning System could be key to getting a better understanding of hurricanes, and help improve forecasts for their strength when they make landfalls. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission will use radio signals from the GPS satellites to measure the wind speed near the ground in the tropics, between 35 degrees north and 35 degrees south where most hurricanes are born.
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Airbnb just closed a $1 billion round and became profitable in 2016
Airbnb has closed on a more than $1 billion round of funding, a source close to the company told CNBC. The round was confirmed in an SEC filing that dropped on Thursday. It is now worth approximately $31 billion. The company raised roughly an additional $450 million as part of its Series F round, making the round nearly twice as much as it stood last fall. The total amount raised was $1,003,312,065, according to the filing.
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How much it will cost to create virtual reality estate tour?
How much it will cost to create virtual reality estate tour? AirBnB with simple step by step guide with cost calculation to increate sales? In this article, we are going to talk about VR tours which are fairly useful to businesses to present themselves. It will be very useful for hotels, real estate agencies, museums and so on. Let us guide you through 5 simple steps to build your own Virtual Reality tour. You will see that it is much easier than you might have ever imagined.
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Airbnb Checks Out of Russia
A traditional yurt on a pasturing site along Russia’s border with Mongolia. A remote cabin in the Russian arctic advertising a view of the northern lights. Or an 18th century manor house on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, complete with crystal chandeliers and a 25-hectare garden. More than two decades after communism, the San Francisco rental site Airbnb came to Russia in 2012. It promised to usher in the era of the sharing economy—replacing Soviet-era kommunalkas with hipster apartments.
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Inside the Hotel Industry’s Plan to Combat Airbnb
Newly obtained documents show how the American Hotel and Lodging Association is taking steps to curb the online short-term rental company.
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Airbnb host must pay $5,000 for canceling reservation based on race
An Airbnb host who canceled a woman’s reservation because of her race has agreed to pay $5,000 in damages and take a course in Asian American studies, a state regulatory agency announced Thursday. The host, Tami Barker, told the woman who reserved her Big Bear cabin for a ski vacation in February that she would not rent to an Asian, justifying the action by adding in a text message, “It’s why we have Trump,” referring to President Trump.
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Did Airbnb Kill the Mountain Town?
Brian Barker was living in Portland, Oregon, with a well-paying union job as a spokesperson for the fire department. But despite having “a job you don’t leave”—he had an itch. “I wanted to go live in the mountains,” he says. “I didn’t want to sit in traffic all the time. I was tired of living in the city.”
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Side hustles are the new norm. Here’s how much they really pay.
Nearly 1 in 4 Americans now earns money from the digital ‘platform economy’.
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Airbnb dominated by professional landlords
Holiday apartment platform Airbnb is being over-run by firms with massive turnovers, new research in Germany suggests. More and more cities are bringing in legislation to counter the problem.
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Homeowners faced an Airbnb nightmare as renters left them facing huge fines, angry neighbors
Drew Grewal faced fines of nearly half a million dollars because his Miami Beach home was being listed illegally on Airbnb. In Miami Beach — as in New York, San Diego and many other U.S. cities — short-term rentals of the kind facilitated by Airbnb, VRBO, Tripadvisor and others are strictly limited. Laws, fees and taxes vary regionally, but fines for violations are typically high. In Miami Beach, the fines run at $20,000 for a first violation and rise from there.
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Airbnb offering, and seeking, free rooms in Florida and Georgia for Hurricane Irma
Airbnb is using its online vacation rental marketplace to connect those with a safe space to offer to those in need of temporary shelter during Hurricane Irma.
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Man: My wife and I were secretly filmed at our Airbnb rental
A man has been accused of hiding at least two cameras in his Airbnb rental in the well-to-do coastal town of Longboat Key, Florida, between Tampa and Sarasota. A couple visiting from Indiana discovered the cameras—one in the bedroom and one in the living room—on September 1, just a day after arriving, and reported them to police. The husband, Derek Starnes, told a local ABC television affiliate that he is sure the bedroom camera recorded him naked.
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Airbnb agrees to help Vancouver enforce new short-term rental rules
Hosts will be blocked from registering unless they have a city business-licence number
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California police detain Bob Marley's granddaughter for staying at an AirBnB while Black
The police refused to believe the Airbnb host even when they phoned and spoke to police. There's video of one of the Rialto cops telling them someone reported "there's three black people stealing stuff."
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Airbnb is grappling with how to treat people with criminal convictions
Marlon Peterson served 10 years in prison for his involvement in a serious crime nearly two decades ago. He’s now a social justice activist and recipient of multiple distinctions recognizing his leadership work with youth and gun control causes. He has a podcast, and is working on his first novel. Too often, Peterson says, only the first fact about him matters. In a scathing op-ed for USA Today last month...
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