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Friday May 25 | The Washington Post

Benchmark Joins Twitter in San Francisco's Emerging Startup Hub

Twitter Inc. will be joined by one of its biggest investors soon after the company moves to San Francisco's gritty Mid-Market neighborhood next month.

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Related Topix: Twitter, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Benchmark Capital, Startups, Menlo Park, CA

Wed May 23, 2012

Globe and Mail

Airbnb's 'rent your home to a stranger' service adds $1-million incentive

The $1-million "guarantee", which is underwritten by Lloyds of London, will also allow Airbnb to go "upscale" as it looks beyond its roots in letting out spare rooms to properties which now include several English castles and Frank Sinatra's former Palm Springs home.

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Related Topix: Lloyd's of London, Insurance, Social Software

Tue May 22, 2012

Fast Company

Airbnb Now Comps Hosts Up To $1 Million For Those Pesky Partiers

Airbnb just announced it's upping its host guarantee system from $50,000 to $1 million.

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Related Topix: Business News

CBS News

Airbnb will insure up to $1 million in property damage

Airbnb, the online vacation rental match-making service, announced Tuesday it will add more coverage for people who rent out their homes on the site.

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Related Topix: IGN Entertainment

Mon May 21, 2012

Singapore Entrepreneurs

Activity booking site EvenPanda combines Pinterest and Airbnb

What do you get when you combine two of Silicon Valley's hottest startups and apply the concept to an entirely different vertical? You get EvenPanda .

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Related Topix: Travel, Malaysia Travel, Singapore, Malaysia Travel

Fri May 18, 2012

CBS Local

Travel On The Cheap With Airbnb

Airbnb.com is a website that connects a global network of accommodations offered not only by bed and breakfasts around the world, but also private houses and guest rooms at residences.

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Switched

Death Watch: Billion-Dollar Startups

So, the Facebook IPO did not exactly take off like a rocket . That's a blow to those, like us, who see a tech bubble forming around every corner.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Small Business, Personal Finance, Dropbox, Twitter

Wall Street Journal

$1 Billion Club Gets Crowded

At least 20 closely held U.S. companies backed by venture capital are now valued at $1 billion or more, including the latest inductee, Pinterest.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology, Life, Hobbies, Scrapbooking, Evernote, Dropbox, Internet, Science / Technology

Thu May 17, 2012

Monterey County Herald

New tech drives the 'sharing economy'

Ooshma Garg, left, founder and CEO of Gobble, chats with prospective chef Gigi Abdalla, right, at Gobble in Palo Alto.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, RelayRides, Mountain View, CA, Startups, Facebook

TechCrunch

When Will Fashion Tech Just Be Fashion?

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry.

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Related Topix: Startups, TechCrunch, University of Southern California, New York University

Wed May 16, 2012

Inc. Magazine

Can This Start-up Shake up the Art World?

That's a basic, simple example of customer pain - and as an entrepreneur that should get you really excited.

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Related Topix: Startups, Zipcar, Powerset

Thu May 10, 2012

JIRA News

Atlassian SF - a great place to bike

Atlassian and five other stellar companies - AirBnB, Veritable Vegetable, Rackspace, Levi's and Zynga - were recognized for making it easy for their employees to bike to work, and in doing so, attracting high-quality employees.

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Related Topix: Atlassian, Zynga

Wired

Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley's Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet

Sure, Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of online ticketing startup Eventbrite , but it's not a time management thing that keeps him from his usual angel-investing habit.

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Related Topix: Eventbrite, Trulia, Startups, Flixster, Yammer, PayPal

Wed May 09, 2012

The Campbell Reporter

Silicon Valley technology helps power new 'sharing economy'

Gobble chef Alisa Chotibhongs, right, chats with Ooshma Garg, left, Founder and CEO of Gobble, during a tasting at Gobble in Palo Alto, Calif.

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Related Topix: RelayRides, Mountain View, CA, Stanford, CA, Startups, Facebook

Tue May 08, 2012

Freshnews

Sustainable Brands Spotlights 'Who's Coming' to Sustainable Brands '12 Conference

The speaker line-up includes more than 150 business and design leaders from a wide range of industries coming together to address the cross-cutting environmental and social concerns driving the need for radical innovation.

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Related Topix: Speakers, Marketing, Beverages, CocaCola, UC Berkeley

Mon May 07, 2012

Switched

Liz Alton: Will the Next Big Pet Social Media Site Match Adopters With Pets?

What would happen if we crossed Match.com with Petfinder? Could we get that much closer to solving the problem of millions of unwanted and homeless pets languishing in shelters and facing euthanasia? Sorry to be so blunt about it -- but could the answer, at least in part, be as simple as a dating service designed to connect animals in shelters with ... (more)

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Related Topix: Liz Claiborne, Apparel, Match, Online Dating

Thu May 03, 2012

Fortune

Airbnb: More than a place to crash

The house-sharing website Airbnb lists 4,881 apartments for rent in Paris, but CEO Brian Chesky is paying a lot of attention to listings like the one for a parking spot in Ile-de-France for $20 a night.

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Related Topix: Startups, Craigslist, Social Software, Internet, Science / Technology

Wed May 02, 2012

SF Sentinel

Mayor Leen Announces Major Expansion of Sharing Economy Leader Airbnb

San Francisco Welcomes America's Cup Fever Construction at Pier 27 for Spectator Village Begins with Mayoral Welcome, Crowds, Digital Sailing Competition Today Mayor Edwin M. Lee and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky announced that Airbnb has signed a 169,000 square foot lease at 888 Brannan Street in Showplace Square.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, South San Francisco, CA, Startups, Advent Software

Business Journal

Are San Francisco office deals all tech-ed out? Not quite

So who is next? So many large technology companies have signed blockbuster leases in San Francisco over the past few months that we surely must be running out of booming, space-devouring companies.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, SoMa (San Francisco, CA), Yammer, Salesforce, Twitter

Tue May 01, 2012

SFGate

Exclusive: Airbnb signs giant SoMa office lease

The frenzied pace of SoMa tech deals continues. Airbnb will announce Wednesday it signed a 10-year, 170,000-square-foot lease at 888 Brannan St., a nearly five-fold expansion over the Potrero Hill space it moved into just last year.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, SoMa (San Francisco, CA), Business News

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