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Airbnb is offering hosts company shares. But millions may miss out
Airbnb is inviting hosts to enjoy in its success following a bumpy year of breakups and makeups. The startup...
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Airbnb’s IPO roadshow, now in the Zoom waiting room
Airbnb’s IPO roadshow is looking more and more like a staycation. After filing confidential plans to go public last...
Los Angeles
Airbnb sues booking guest over unauthorized house party
Los Angeles and cities across California have been cracking down on short-term rental “party houses,” and now Airbnb is...
City squeezing startup Guesty for info in Airbnb crackdown
Guesty, a software startup that services property managers who use Airbnb and other sites for short-term rentals, is in...
National
Airbnb banked on short-term rentals. Can it continue without them?
Just over a year ago, Lyric was riding high. On the heels of a $160 million funding round led...
National
Airbnb executive to step down as startup revives IPO plans
Three weeks after detailing how Airbnb almost “lost everything” after the pandemic hit, CEO Brian Chesky is reviving plans...
Miami
Miami Beach shuts down short-term rentals due to coronavirus
The city of Miami Beach ordered all short-term rentals to stop operating effective Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. due to...
Weekend Edition
Lisbon might have solved its Airbnb problem
The city of Lisbon launched a program this spring to get vacant short-term rental units back onto the long-term rental market, and landlords appear to be taking them up on it. The Portuguese capital...
National
Sonder raises $170M despite hospitality apocalypse
Hospitality startup Sonder has gone and raised $170 million, in the middle of an unprecedented hospitality downturn no less....
Airbnb agrees to give listing info to city
After more than a decade of war over home-rental listings, Airbnb and New York City have come to terms. In a joint statement Friday, the startup and de Blasio administration announced an end to...