SF News Airbnb Does About-Face, Says It Will Crack Down On Scofflaw Hosts In SF Following a preliminary ruling by a federal judge last week suggesting that the court will hold Airbnb responsible for conducting transactions with hosts who are violating San Francisco law, the short-term rental company
SF News Airbnb Announces New Plans, Tools, And Rules To Fight Bigoted Hosts Nearly ten months after a Harvard Business School study revealed "widespread discrimination" against guests on the basis of race the short-term rental platform Airbnb, the San Francisco-based company is taking action, saying in
SF News What Do You Do When Your Airbnb Host Freaks Out On You (In Another Country)? By Chris Roberts It had been quite the grand European tour for Candace Low. In late June, with a six-week jaunt across the continent wrapping up in Portugal, the biologist from San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
SF News The On-Demand/Shut-In Economy Is Definitely Slowing Down, If Not Dying With the shuttering of SpoonRocket last week, the recent news that Instacart was slashing its fees and commissions to drivers, and the December closure of rideshare also-ran Sidecar, there's been plenty of talk
SF News Study Finds 'Widespread Discrimination' On Airbnb Three researchers at Harvard Business School published a study Wednesday documenting "widespread discrimination against African-American guests" on the short-term rental platform Airbnb. The researchers found that individuals with "distinctively African-American names" are less
SF News Airbnb Vows To Work Within Local Laws Worldwide; But Do They Have A Liability Problem? Airbnb, the short-term rental platform that's become a bit of a bête noire lately, particularly for San Francisco progressives and housing activists, has just published a Community Compact and pledged to play nice
SF News LUMINA Condo Residents Will Soon Have On-Demand Audis At Their Disposal For when Zipcar just won't do, darling, Audi is launching a new service, Audi at Home, available to lucky San Franciscans and residents of our sister city in luxury, Miami. This is an
SF News Airbnb Is Now Selling 'Handcrafted' Tours Of The Mission Airbnb is launching a new service that seeks to expand their services beyond vacation rentals. The $25-billion dollar company this past weekend sent beta invitations to select users announcing their upcoming "Journeys" feature,
SF News Passive Aggressive Airbnb Ad Campaign Is Real, And They're Already Taking It Down And Apologizing Chill billboard, @airbnb pic.twitter.com/4QuRJSaG0N— ｊｄｅｎ (@jden415) October 22, 2015 As a couple of images circulated late Wednesday, like this one, of ads in San Francisco purporting to be for Airbnb
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
SF News After Lyft And Uber, Now Postmates And Caviar Delivery People Are Suing To Be Made Employees Following on the potentially major lawsuits against Uber and Lyft about their classification of drivers as independent contractors, delivery people working for services like Postmates, Instacart, and Caviar have also filed suit to
SF News Village Bicycle: 'Spinlister' Is Airbnb For Bikes, Boards, Etc. It's 2015, so why aren't you renting out all of your stuff on the internet? Your apartment is a hotel, your car is a taxi, and now your bike belongs to the block
SF News Regarding How New York, And Dianne Feinstein, Openly Hate Airbnb Maybe you've heard, but New York City is the next frontier Airbnb is hoping to conquer, and so far that effort is not looking nearly as easy as the company's San Francisco conquest
SF News Airbnb Regulation Passes; Supervisors Let Company Off The Hook For Back Taxes At Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting, the much discussed and fairly controversial Airbnb legitimacy law passed by a vote of 7 to 4, along with some new amendments. One amendment that failed to
SF News Mayor Lee's Sharing Economy Working Group Is Hardly Working As mayor during a particularly tumultuous time in the city's growth, Ed Lee has been a leader in calling for task forces and working groups to integrate our local government with the ever-changing
SF News Sending Up The Sharing Economy There was a time when people sneered at the idea that people would consider renting their homes to unsupervised strangers. And who would have taken a ride in some rando's car a couple
SF News Have AirBnB, Lyft, Etc. Made Us More Trusting? Once upon a time, everyone thought that online dating was only going to lead to more serial killers. But now we know better: There aren't any more serial killers than there were before,
SF News Airbnb To Start Collecting Hotel Tax In San Francisco In a move that will bring in millions of tax revenue for the city, Airbnb has agreed to collect the same 14 percent hotel tax as San Francisco hotels, starting this summer. San
SF News Now There's A Startup For Renting Cars To Uber And Lyft Drivers In the disruptive, circular world of the sharing economy, someone was inevitably going to find a way to sell resources back to people who want to get in on the action. Enter Breeze,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink There Is 'An AirBnB For Meals' Now Of course there is. This Sharing Economy thing — which is hotter than, like, food trucks right now — continues to turn every empty guest bedroom, unoccupied car seat and idle hand into something actually
