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| 14.07.2026 | Texas Innovation Surges: Space, Biotech, and Urban Tech Drive Economic Ascent | Houston and the broader Texas landscape are experiencing unprecedented innovation. New pharmaceutical facilities boost the life sciences sector. Space companies secure major NASA contracts, expanding lunar ambitions. Healthcare institutions... |
| 03.07.2026 | KBR names C-suite duo to lead $5.3B government services spinoff | In advance of the spinoff of its Mission Technology Solutions unit, Houston-based KBR has made two C-suite hires for the new business.
Michael LaRouche is coming aboard as president and CEO of the spinoff, currently called SpinCo, on Sept. ... |
| 30.06.2026 | New Houston-born app OpenToBites connects users over meals in 16 cities | A Houston-born social is connecting foodies and social butterflies for shared meals. OpenToBites launched on Android on June 18 and iOS on June 22, and is available to use for free in Houston and beyond.
Founded and operated by Houston deve... |
| 18.10.2024 | Апартаменты возвращаются в сервис | - |
| 28.08.2024 | Otto: The Future of Business Travel in the Age of AI | In the bustling world of business travel, time is money. Professionals are constantly on the move, juggling meetings, flights, and accommodations. Enter Otto, a new player in the travel tech arena, poised to revolutionize how business trips... |
| 26.08.2024 | Otto: Travel-Based AI Agent Company Raises $6 Million (Seed) | Otto, a company that is building an intelligent and autonomous AI travel agent for business travelers, announced that it has raised a $6 million seed round led by Madrona Ventures, with participation from Direct Travel and angel investors f... |
| 23.08.2024 | Otto Raises $6M in Seed Funding | Otto, a Seattle, WA-based startup building an intelligent and autonomous AI travel agent for business travelers, raised $6M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Madrona Ventures, with participation from Direct Travel and angel investors fr... |
| 25.05.2024 | Туристы бронируют самостоятельно | - |
| 12.03.2024 | Here's Why Home Exchange Services Market is Surging; Must Know External Factor Analysis | Airbnb, Homestay, Homestayin | Home Exchange Services market
Stay up to date with Home Exchange Services Market research offered by HTF MI. Check how key trends and emerging drivers are shaping this industry growth.
The Home Exchange Services market size is estimated to ... |
| 24.11.2022 | Как стать цифровым кочевником | История и будущее цифровых кочевников
Прежде чем вы отвлечётесь на что-то другое в Интернете, я хотел бы поделиться интересной историей цифровых кочевников.
Самым первым цифровым кочевником был Стив Робертс, в 1984 году проехавший по Америк... |
| 10.06.2020 | Сервис для путешественников Couchsurfing призвал пользователей оформить подписку и убрал рекламу из-за её бесполезности Статьи редакции... | Полученные деньги позволят Couchsurfing продолжить работу во время пандемии.
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Сервис для путешественников Couchsurfing направил пользователям письмо, в котором призвал оформлять подписку для поддержки сообщест... |
| 29.03.2020 | Коллективная онлайн-удалёнка: что и где делать ради общего блага в сети | Привет! В эфире команда разработчиков First Line Software. Собрали список полезных занятий, которые можно делать не отрываясь от экрана, не выходя из комнаты и не нарушая правила карантина.
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| 13.01.2020 | How to be a Colorado ski bum | The ski bum is a rare breed of mountain dweller, celebrated rather than reviled for a lifestyle anathema to the American Way: having no job, few dollars and fewer responsibilities, and skiing or snowboarding all the time.
Many skiers toil a... |
| 03.04.2019 | Cвалить и не умереть: как заработать в хардкорном путешествии | Идея «все бросить и свалить» посещает каждую средневзвешенную голову хотя бы раз в жизни. И это можно сделать без подготовки, без денег. Прямо сейчас.
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Текст: Александра Филиппова
Приятно же, умирая об дедл... |
| 09.10.2018 | One way ticket: гайд по 13 странам для потенциального эмигранта | С переездом в другую страну понимаешь одну важную вещь, а точнее пять:
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Поговорка “где родился — там и пригодился” давно не актуальна, давно можно жить и работать там, где вам нравится
Мир открыт и достато... |
| 06.09.2018 | Разделяй и радуйся: как шеринг-экономика меняет мир | Инвестировать в недвижимость или купить дорогой автомобиль? Дом мне может надоесть, и я захочу переехать, а дорогой автомобиль через год перестанет быть самым новым. Зачем тратиться на них, если можно взять в прокат? Так я гарантирую, что в... |
| 11.11.2017 | Work and Travel: Blockchain based system attached to your CV | Share
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When you first saw the headline you might think it’d be ‘another article for millennials who don’t want to get a real job and only wish to travel the world’. The truth is – this article is not about it at all.
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| 14.06.2016 | NightSwapping picks up 2M Euro for cashless Airbnb | Like Couchsurfing, except the platform uses a currency of "nights" to weed out freeloaders
A lot of the sharing economy isn’t actually about sharing. But some companies are trying to change that.
NightSwapping, a French company wi... |
| 03.05.2016 | Roam raises $3.3M seed for luxurious, flexible living | Like couchsurfing, except it comes with nice bedding and costs as much as rent in San Francisco
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in Oakla... |
| 04.01.2016 | In cyberspace, sharing doesn’t always mean caring | - |
| 14.08.2015 | Lessons from Seoul’s Two Sharing Economies | Emily Hong Contributor
Emily Hong covered the sharing economy and startup ecosystem in Seoul, South Korea as a 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar. She is currently a policy program associate at New America's Open Technology Institute.
As a Fulbrig... |
| 18.06.2015 | Startup Spotlight: Horizon uses existing communities to create local hospitality networks | Photo via Horizon
In the age of the billion-person social network, it can be challenging to use digital tools to find authentic, trustworthy communities.
As The Kernel observed, that became a daunting obstacle for Couchsurfing, the fast-gro... |
| 10.06.2015 | Where Does Your Favorite US App Rank in Terms of Quality? | Believe it or not, there’s a company out there that combs through half a billion ratings and user reviews submitted across more than 30 million apps in the Android and iOS app stores. Why do they do this?
Well, they’ve taken it upon themsel... |
| 20.05.2015 | Nightswapping: An Airbnb Alternative Featuring Actual Sharing | For a few bucks, these guys will get you a free bed in Portland, Sao Paulo or Paris (Photo: Facebook)
The “sharing economy” is, by and large, a spin term for ways the internet facilitates making money off idle resources (unused cars, empty ... |
| 29.04.2015 | Tandem Adds Two New Partners, Says It’s Not Exactly An Accelerator Anymore | Tandem, which recently raised a $100 million fund to back mobile startups, has added two new partners — Shashi Seth, formerly an executive at Google and Yahoo, and Couchsurfing co-founder Daniel Hoffer.
The firm says it now has 15 team memb... |
| 30.03.2015 | Ventoura App Combines P2P Guiding And Traveler Matching | Meet Ventoura: the latest startup seeking its fortune by building a peer-to-peer platform. This one is playing in the travel space, and has just launched an app where travelers can connect with others headed to the same destination so they ... |
| 29.01.2015 | Andrew Leigh: Sharing the benefits of “the sharing economy” | With nothing but a smartphone, I can order up an Uber car to whisk me to my next meeting or find a bargain bed for the night through AirBNB. If I lived in one of the major United States cities, I could also tap on an app to hire a pair of s... |
| 10.10.2013 | Couchsurfing CEO Tony Espinoza steps down, board searches for a replacement | Tony Espinoza has stepped down as the chief executive of Couchsurfing, with the news announced in a blog post today.
Director of member experience Jen Billock has been appointed as the interim CEO, as the board begins its search for the rep... |
| 10.10.2013 | Tony Espinoza Steps Down As CEO Of Couchsurfing, Jennifer Billock Steps Up As Interim As Startup Lays Off Staff, “Doubles Down” On Mobile | Big changes at Couchsurfing, the social travel site that lets people connect and crash on their sofas and spare beds when visiting each other’s towns. Today, CEO Tony Espinoza announced that he is stepping down as the company lays off staff... |
| 24.05.2013 | Want to make money & change the world? An idiot's guide to 'social entrepreneurship' | Muhammed Yunus is a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and the founder of Grameen Bank, and he sparked a movement with the simple question: “If you are a socially conscious person, why don’t you run your business in a way that will help achieve ... |
| 05.10.2012 | Startup culture series: At CouchSurfing, employees may take time off to travel the world | In some ways, the CouchSurfing headquarters in San Francisco is exactly what you’d expect. It’s got an engineer rocking a “don’t shave” T-shirt, a twentysomething community manager who likes to put his feet up, and a CEO who plays a round o... |
| 22.08.2012 | CouchSurfing, now a ‘social travel network’, gets a $15M boost | CouchSurfing, a website that connects travelers with friendly, foreign strangers willing to share their home, is proving to be fundable business. Today, the company raised an additional $15 million, bringing its total funds raised in the pa... |
| 22.08.2012 | CouchSurfing Raises $15M in Series B |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Pioneering social travel network, announced today that it has closed $15 million in funding from new lead investor General Catalyst Partners.
>> Click here for more funding data on CouchSurfing
>> To expor... |
| 02.02.2012 | Legalize couchsurfing: Why renting rooms shouldn’t be like harboring fugitives | Tight budgets and the internet have given rise to the hottest new thing in travel accommodations. Web-based company Airbnb has received a lot of press recently for its for-profit service that matches travelers with spare bedrooms, such as m... |
| 25.08.2011 | Couchsurfing.com Raises $7.6 M. Let’s Hope Profit Pressure Doesn’t Corrupt a Good Thing | Couchsurfing will probably get a swooshier, sexier logo now.
Couchsurfing.com is a website that lets travelers shop for free couches to crash on in the cities they’re visiting (and often includes meals, beer, tours and new friendship) which... |
| 01.08.2011 | Airbnb Adds Automatic $50 K. Insurance Policy After User’s Home Was Vandalized, CEO Apologizes: “We Really Screwed Things Up” | Mr. Chesky.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky’s first statement on the highly-publicized matter of the user whose home was burglarized and ransacked by an Airbnb guest was measured, mildly sympathetic, and denied any wrongdoing. The statement he just... |
| 23.08.2010 | Miio Takes ReadWriteWeb’s Advice to Slim Down and Find Itself | Last month, we wrote about a well-designed but overbuilt and slightly confusing microblogging site that had elements of Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader.
Miio had some nifty features and an inviting design, but we thought it was trying t... |
| 11.12.2008 | Use CrashTheInauguration To Find A Place To Stay In D.C. And See Obama Become President | The government is issuing around 240,000 tickets to President Elect Obama’s inauguration on January 20. But many more people than that want to be there, and there are plenty of parties and other activities for them to attend. The big proble... |
| 11.08.2008 | Turn your dumpy apartment into a bed and breakfast | The Internet has revolutionized a lot of things. In particular, it’s made it possible for one person to start a thriving business selling just about anything. If you’ve been dreaming of turning your humble abode into a bed and breakfast, yo... |
| 31.07.2007 | Couch Swapping Comes To Facebook | Social travel network TripUp has announced the launch of CouchSwap, a new social travel application developed specifically for Facebook.
CouchSwap gives Facebook users the ability to offer their couches to friends and other travellers, as w... |
| 29.06.2006 | CouchSurfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down | This is just ridiculous. Three year old CouchSurfing, a beloved service used by some 90,000 members, had multiple database crashes, critical parts of the software and data were irretrievably lost, and the backups weren’t performed properly.... |
| - | Сервис бесплатного жилья для путешественников Couchsurfing стал платным. Для украинцев тоже | Сервис бесплатного жилья для путешественников Couchsurfing стал платным. Для украинцев тоже
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Бесплатный сервис для путешественников Couchsurfing ввел плату за доступ к сайту. Об этом сообщается в блоге ко... |
| - | 7 способов развиваться практически бесплатно | 7 способов развиваться практически бесплатно
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Умнеть, развиваться и культурно проводить время можно только за большие деньги? Миф! Work.ua выделяет 7 возможностей для развития, которые не требую... |
| - | Не каучсерфом единым: 7 сайтов с бесплатным жильем для путешественников | Не каучсерфом единым: 7 сайтов с бесплатным жильем для путешественников
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О сервисе CouchSurfing знают даже те, кто ни разу им не пользовался. Это англоязычный сайт для путешественников, на котором мо... |
| - | Работать и путешествовать: опыт двухнедельной поездки в Польшу | Работать и путешествовать: опыт двухнедельной поездки в Польшу
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В конце прошлого года я решил опровергнуть миф о том, что жить в европейских странах очень дорого и среднему украинцу это не по карм... |
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Советы о том, как стать цифровым кочевником | Подготовка к цифровому кочевничеству
Кочевническая жизнь
Я цифровой кочевник. Это значит, что я могу работать из любой точки мира. В этой статье представлены советы о том, как стать цифровым кочевником и длительно путешествовать.
За десять ... |
