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NEW YORK CITY—With news such as Eastern Consolidated’s closing, the coming of blockchain, and
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There are plenty of benefits to renting your next vacation stay through Airbnb, but that’s not the only peer-to-peer service that makes rentals easy.
You can use these Airbnb-like alternatives for renting cars, office space, boats, and much more.
Airbnb for Cars
Netgear home security spin-off Arlo just added another key hardware piece to its growing portfolio of connected devices. The Arlo Audio Doorbell is a kind of Ring/Nest (to which it bears a pretty striking resemblance) competitor that sends calls to the homeowner’s smartphone every time som...
Clara Brenner is an up-and-comer in Silicon Valley tech investing. Her firm, Urban Innovation Fund, just raised $22 million to invest in startups.
Brenner says something that "grinds her gears" is when founders and CEO say, "Hey, girls," in emails to her and her female cofounder.
While calling women "girls" may not be intended to be patronizing, according to Brenner, words matter in the work...
Science fiction writers and technologists have been predicting the arrival of robot butlers for the better part of a century. So far domestic robots have been relatively pedestrian: robot dogs, vacuum cleaners, lawn mowers. Rosie of “The Jetsons” fame? Not so much.
That may be about to change. Behind the scenes, big tech companies are funding secret projects to develop robots. Amazon...
Coworking giant WeWork is looking more and more like a traditional real estate company and the launching of a real estate advisory services division punctuates that point.
Come September, the eight-year-old company will kick off WeWork Space Services in New York City, a business targeting sm...
A year after launching a real estate investment fund, WeWork is launching a real estate advisory business that offers brokerage services.
On Friday, the coworking company announced that it is piloting WeWork Space Services, which will represent companies and help them find office space outside of WeWork’s locations. Jason Bauer, who previously co-founded the brokerage Voda Bauer Real Estate, ...
Flight is about to get a lot more personal, says aviation entrepreneur Rodin Lyasoff. In this visionary talk, he imagines a new golden age of air travel in which small, autonomous air taxis allow us to bypass traffic jams and fundamentally transform how we get around our cities and towns. "In the past century, flight connected our planet," Lyasoff says. "In the next, it wi...