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More than 120 companies, from Apple to Zynga, filed an impassioned legal brief condemning US President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, stepping up the industry’s growing opposition to the policy. The amicus brief was filed late

Google has asked staffers who may have been affected by a new executive order on immigration to return to the US quickly, joining a growing number of technology executives voicing concerns over restrictions that could

Airbnb took a first step toward shifting its identity from a home-rental business to a full-service travel company, unveiling additions to its website and mobile applications that will give travellers tools to plan

Technology companies are a lot like contemporary art. Their valuations reflect narratives more than anything else, and it’s just as important to devise the right framework to describe a phenomenon as it is to build a beautiful product. Two New

“Don’t go to Paris. Don’t tour Paris. And please don’t do Paris.” The advice, offered by home-sharing app Airbnb in a series of television commercials that have been airing in seven countries, promotes a vision of

Internet travel booking service Airbnb has revealed how South Africans are using the service to make extra money. It said that local hosts earn on average R28 800/year as tourists make

One in every thousand homes in the world is now listed on Airbnb. Founded in 2008 in San Francisco, the website brings hosts and accommodation seekers together with more than 2,2m listings in 34 000 cities and 191 countries around the

What a difference two years can make. The herd of private technology start-ups worth over US$1bn – dubbed “unicorns” – is looking decidedly skittish. Funding is drying up and the expected rivers of revenue have not yet begun to flow. On Friday