Airbnb offering exotic experiences from a Paris museum to the house in ‘Up’ — some for free
Airbnb wants to portray itself as a company that sells experiences and not just alternatives to staying in a hotel.
Airbnb wants to portray itself as a company that sells experiences and not just alternatives to staying in a hotel.
Makers of insect-based animal feed hope to be able to compete with soybeans on price.
There’s nothing German automakers like doing more than screwing with their naming conventions, and BMW is once again doing just that. However, instead of making things more complicated and confusing , it’s actually streamlining its naming structure by dropping “i” from the end
When you were a kid and you had a little radio control car that you zoomed around the kitchen floor or built jumps for in the back yard, did you throw it away when the batteries died ? For many owners of early electric vehicles from a decade or more ago, that seems to be the
After more than a decade of delays and failures, Boeing is finally ready to launch its first crew of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Starliner CST-100 spacecraft is scheduled for May 6—and it’s going to be a true nail-biter. Read more...
The chute from Delta Flight 520 had detached from a panel above the right wing shortly after the Los Angeles-bound plane took off from JFK Airport in New York last Friday. T
Ousted weatherman Rob Marciano's stormy tenure at ABC News included clashes with fellow meteorologist Ginger Zee -- a bitter feud that was kept tightly under wraps for years at the network.
Beleaguered manufacturer Boeing needs to put together airplanes and send them to airlines. But ever since one of those planes lost a piece of its fuselage mid-flight in January, it hasn’t been able to put together planes as quickly as it or those airlines would like. But it’s
Microsoft’s multi-year, multi-billion dollar partnership with OpenAI likely came out of a fear of Google dominating the AI race, an email shows. Read more...
Tesla’s sudden move to lay off most of its Supercharger division shocked the electric vehicle industry, halted construction plans, and left pretty much anyone paying attention baffled . Read more...
There’s been a flurry of successful tech IPOs at the start of the year: Reddit , AI startup Astera Labs , consumer rewards app Ibotta , Microsoft-backed Rubrik . But the biggest IPO on the books for 2024 so far is not in Silicon Valley — in fact it’s not even on dry land. Read
Google fired around 200 employees and relocated some of the jobs overseas -- the latest sign of a long-running effort by the company to cut costs and restructure itself.
One of Boeing’s big problems at the moment is that it can’t build planes as quickly as it and its customers would like. But a key supplier is teasing that it has figured out a way to help Boeing become more productive. Read more...
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average and other U.S. stock indexes spiked Wednesday afternoon — not because the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged, but because there won’t be any more rate hikes. The market started celebrating after the Fed Chair Jerome Powell said “it is
T-Mobile officially finalized the $1.35 billion deal to acquire Mint Mobile, according to a press release from the telecom company . The deal was first announced in March 2023 but had to clear regulatory approval. Read more...
The California Forever project is one step closer to becoming a reality. This week, the ambitious project’s backers announced that they had received enough local support to trigger a ballot initiative. Local voters will now decide the fate of the project during the November
The Fed concluded its two-day monetary policy meeting by letting the Fed funds target rate stand at 5.25%-5.50%.
Google laid off at least 200 staffers on its “Core” team in California, CNBC reported Wednesday. Some of those jobs are relocating to its offices in India and Mexico, the outlet said. Read more...
Early crypto investor Roger Ver, a.k.a. ‘Bitcoin Jesus,’ has been charged with a tax fraud , with the Department of Justice saying he evaded nearly $50 million in taxes. Read more...
As travelers plan their long-awaited summer trips, Airbnb is hoping they’ll consider embarking on one of its new ‘Icons’ experiences for a completely unique vacation. Read more...
"Your company let the country down," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden told Witty.
BlackRock is reportedly looking to shakeup employers' default retirement strategies by turning a portion of retirement savings into fixed lifetime payments through target-date funds embedded with annuities.
The US central bank has left interest rates unchanged again, noting a "lack of further progress" on inflation.
Kalhan Rosenblatt wrote that "a confluence of factors" have "led me to my rock bottom" but that she is now "getting the help I need now."
Wall Street traders now envision just a single rate cut this year to the Fed’s benchmark rate, now at a 23-year high of 5.3%.
They have shone at Beijing’s car jamboree
Peloton is going on the road. Well, at it least some of its equipment is. Read more...
The Rabbit R1 doesn’t have a lot of capabilities that your phone already has. It doesn’t send emails for you. It can’t set calendar reminders or alarms. It can’t connect to any apps outside a select four that includes Spotify, Uber, DoorDash, and Midjourney. All those features
If you’re looking to pick up a used electric car bargain , then your luck may be in as Hertz is about to offload thousands of electric vehicles from its fleet. The rental giant will sell an additional 10,000 EVs that it initially promised as a result of “substantial