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Buyout giant TPG's leaders weigh in on contrarian dealmaking's past, present and future

And it's expanded into areas such as credit, real estate, and early-stage technology investments, with notable success in the likes of Uber Technologies Inc. and Airbnb Inc. When Bonderman ... that's ... read more

The Peril and Promise of a Sharing Economy

Airbnb, for example, seems free to distort property prices ... Democratising the sharing economy is no mean feat. Research I have conducted with colleagues at the Open University and the University of ... read more

Catherine Rampell: What preschoolers can teach Silicon Valley about “sharing”

“Sharing” is now at risk of linguistic appropriation and buzzword-ification, too — in this case by the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. This week I attended a conference here called “SHARE: Catalyzing ... read more

Toronto city council takes first step towards regulating Airbnb-style rentals

Although Toronto is behind some cities in considering licensing and restrictions for Airbnb-style rentals, it gives the city an opportunity to learn from other jurisdictions, said Fairbnb’s Wieditz. ... read more

Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy

He's now looking at websites that can let him rent out some of his camera equipment. Getting into the share economy ... for hosts, Airbnb takes a 3% cut from the renter and a 6% to 12% cut from the ... read more

How Sharing and Renting is Creating a New Economy in the West

Twelve days per month Larson rents his Marin County home on website Airbnb for $100 a night, of which he nets $97. Four nights a week, he transforms his Prius into a de facto taxi via the ride-sharing ... read more

Insuring the shared economy in a connected world

For example, an article on millennials and the sharing economy explained ... coverage for property and liability for all these clients’ assets, under the assumption that they will be shared? Tag the ... read more

2019 IPOs: Your Definitive Guide and How to Profit

The companies range everything from the sharing economy to data analytics ... The model allows for Airbnb to get a cut of every rental without having to own and maintain the individual properties. It ... read more

Who bears risks in a sharing economy?

What Thailand can learn and apply: In recent research that Lloyd's of London conducted in China, the UK and the US, we discovered a reticent consumer market for sharing economy ... such as Airbnb and ... read more

Airbnb Is Set to Launch a New Tier of Select Properties

Properties must ... in a distributed, sharing economy-based model. Hotels have managed to perfect that process over hundreds of years, without having to contend with millions of individual owners or ... read more

Silicon Valley Is Ruining "Sharing" for Everybody

If you’ve used Airbnb or Uber or any other “sharing economy” service lately, you may be surprised to learn that you were ... it’s easy to crack down on the commercial use of improperly zoned and ... read more

Airbnb is dangling tax money in front of lawmakers to get legalized

For sharing economy companies ... in a statement. “The commercial operators that Airbnb and other short-term rental platforms facilitate ought to play by the same rules as the tens of thousands of ... read more