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North Carolina Lawmakers Hear Pros, Cons of Uber, Lyft, Airbnb

Nov 20 2014 // North Carolina lawmakers heard arguments this week for and against increasing regulation of digital services that allow people to sell car rides through a smartphone app or rent out rooms to travelers. Car services such as...

Vacation Rental Firm Sues San Francisco Over Airbnb Advantage

Nov 7 2014 // A vacation-home rental website has sued San Francisco, claiming a new law making it legal for residents to rent out their homes online for short periods unfairly gives rivals such as Airbnb an advantage. The lawsuit filed...

Boston Emerging as Unlikely Battleground for Web-Based Businesses

Oct 1 2014 // A renowned technology hub that is home to some of the country’s top universities, Boston is emerging as an unlikely battleground for web-based businesses like Airbnb and Uber, with some saying more regulations are...

‘Share’ Economy to Bring Sweeping Changes to Pittsburgh

Jul 10 2014 // Jonathan Danial is a concierge, making sure guests have bottled water, crisp linens and the signature house banana bread — in his home. David Pavel has been a classic limo driver, chatting up his passengers as he...

Airbnb Alters San Francisco Rental Market, Report Shows

Jul 7 2014 // Lodging sharing service Airbnb has taken a bite out of San Francisco’s already limited stock of rental housing as some landlords and housing activists contend, a newspaper reported. The San Francisco Chronicle...

Airbnb Alters San Francisco Rental Market, Report Shows

Jun 17 2014 // Lodging sharing service Airbnb has taken a bite out of San Francisco’s already limited stock of rental housing as some landlords and housing activists contend, a newspaper reported Sunday. The San Francisco Chronicle...

Individual or Corporate? Two Visions of the Sharing Economy

May 30 2014 // Google’s driverless car and Apple’s deal to buy Beats Electronics, primarily for its streaming music service, represent the latest moves in a battle between two visions of the sharing economy: One in which the...

Landlords Who Evicted Tenants for Airbnb Sued by San Francisco

May 19 2014 // The city of San Francisco has sued two landlords for allegedly evicting tenants to rent out rooms on such websites as Airbnb, opening a new front in a controversy over increasingly popular home-rental services. In separate...

Judge Strikes Down N.Y. Attorney General’s Subpoena for Airbnb User Data

May 14 2014 // New York’s investigation into whether Airbnb Inc. allows users to run illegal hotels hit a setback when a judge ruled that a request for information about the service’s rental home providers was too...

Landlords Who Evicted Tenants For Airbnb Sued by San Francisco

Apr 25 2014 // The city of San Francisco has sued two landlords for allegedly evicting tenants to rent out rooms on such websites as Airbnb, opening a new front in a controversy over increasingly popular home-rental services. In separate...

San Francisco Considers Ending Ban Renting Homes

Apr 17 2014 // San Francisco lawmakers are considering making it legal for city residents to rent out their homes on sites such as Airbnb, but only if they have liability insurance and meet other requirements, a newspaper...