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Woof! Rover.com Fetches $3.4 Million to Be Airbnb for Dogs.
Rover.com has raised $3.4 million to be the Airbnb of the dog-boarding market. Rover is an alternative to dog kennels, much like how Airbnb offers an alternative to staying in hotels. In addition to...
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Airbnb Streamlines Booking Process for Last-Minute Travel
The average reservation on Airbnb is made a month in advance, and completing a booking can take up to eight days. So Airbnb has created an alternative booking service for last-minute travel that it...
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The "B" Word
In the wake of FaceTagram and Zynga/OMGPOP and in anticipation of Facebook’s May IPO, we convened our first Forum and asked the members the inevitable bubble question: Pundits and others are using the...
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Twilio Taps Say Media Vet Kirkpatrick as CFO
Something is going on at the telephony software start-up Twilio, and I guess the word to use is “growth.” Barely two weeks after hiring former Jive exec Lynda Smith as its chief marketing officer,...
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Pinterest Prompts a Start-Up's Pivot: Meet Curalate, an Analytics Engine for...
Pinterest’s rocket rise may be slowing, but there are still lots of companies struggling to keep up with the image-sharing site. Apu Gupta wants to help: His Curalate promises to help brands and...
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Tripping Becomes a Kayak for Home Rentals and Couchsurfing
Tripping, a two-year-old travel community site that helps Grateful Dead fans, Peace Corps volunteers, college alumni, parents of autistic children and even AARP members find people to meet and stay...
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Airbnb Will Now Cover up to $1M Worth of Property Damage
Airbnb is putting up some cash to build a reputation around the safety and security of its hosts’ property. The company today committed to cover as much as $1 million in damage resulting from a...
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Privacy Experts Weigh In on Whether There Is a Cure for "Creepy" (Video)
Sometimes the Internet is a creepy place. There are identity thieves, stalkers and people generally trying to take advantage of you. At least that was one of the things that I took away from a privacy...
View ArticleEventup Raises $1.8M for Venue Marketplace
There might not be a company more deserving of the description “an Airbnb for X” than Eventup, where X in this case is event spaces for rent. The recently launched marketplace for venues now has 3,000...
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Airbnb Redesign Turns Site Into Airbnb Magazine
Airbnb today is redesigning its homepage and iPhone app to help people explore its inventory of places to stay. The site will now feature glossy “wish lists” of properties, some of them picked by its...
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CasaHop Raises $1.2 Million for Home-Swapping Service (Video)
Following in the footsteps of Airbnb and other online home rental services, CasaHop has identified a slightly different approach to the market: It wants to connect people over the Internet who are...
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Airbnb Hires CFO and HR Head in Effort to Grow Senior Team
In a critical hire to solidify its top corporate ranks, Airbnb has hired Intuit finance exec Andrew Swain as CFO. At Intuit, he was VP of finance for the financial software company’s $1.5 billion...
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TaskRabbit Takes Another $13M, With Founders Fund Leading the Round
TaskRabbit, the marketplace for personal projects and services, has picked up a round of Series C funding: $13 million led by Founders Fund and including existing investors such as Shasta Ventures and...
View ArticleAirbnb Snags Members of DailyBooth Team in Mobile Talent Grab
Online home rental service Airbnb announced on Tuesday that it has “acqhired” some of the team behind photo sharing apps DailyBooth and Batch, in an effort to boost Airbnb’s mobile talent. First...
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Checking In With the Natty VCs of Social+Capital (Video)
Recently, I paid a visit to the very elegant yet still hipster offices of Social+Capital Partnership in Palo Alto, Calif. As many know already, the venture fund was founded last year by the...
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Airbnb Now Gets 26 Percent of Traffic From Mobile, More Than Double a Year Ago
Like examining rings on a tree stump, years from now we may look back at this quick acceleration to mobile, but it’s neat to try to slice it in real time. Take the popular travel rental site Airbnb:...
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Airbnb Hires the Team Behind Fondu Review App
Airbnb has “acqhired” Fondu, maker of a “bite-size restaurant review” iPhone app. The Fondu team will join Airbnb’s product group in San Francisco, but other assets of the company were not purchased....
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Because Sometimes Just One Photo (Or App) Isn't Enough, Tumblr Makes a...
Tumblr today released a dedicated iOS app for creating what it calls Photosets — groups of pictures with a little bit of layout. The Photoset app is separate from the main Tumblr app, similar to the...
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Yahoo Loses Government Relations Head to Airbnb (Internal Memo Time!)
Yahoo’s David Hantman, who has been its deputy general counsel and VP of global public policy, is taking a similar job at the online rentals start-up Airbnb, according to an internal email memo he...
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Braintree Raises $35 Million to Tackle PayPal's Core Business
Braintree, which promises to simplify payments for retailers online and mobile, has raised another round of capital. The second round, totaling $35 million, was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA)...
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