Airbnb and New York state are in talks to resolve a lawsuit brought by the company challenging a law it says could expose it to significant penalties for advertising short-term apartment rentals, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday…

Following a discrimination lawsuit last month, Airbnb brought on former Attorney General Eric Holder to work on crafting a new policy…New caveats to the company’s mandatory terms of service are aimed at eliminating discriminatory behavior by hosts or renters along the lines of race, gender, nationality, age, sexual identity and orientation, disability, and religion…”You commit […]

Airbnb and Uber are, far and away, the two poster children for digital businesses disrupting physical-world industries in deep ways. As such, it is unsurprising that they have been reaping all the growth, value, attention and regulatory scrutiny that comes when scalable marketplaces hit up against large and entrenched industries…

Airbnb started nine years ago as an ingenious online meeting place, enabling homeowners to rent out rooms to holidaymakers and other visitors…

Airbnb has been left tending its wounds after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law imposing steep fines for listing short-term rentals of host-free apartments. Airbnb is now taking the fight to court to keep its largest market afloat…

Everyone knew Airbnb would fight the legislation banning New Yorkers from advertising short-term rentals of their homes on the site if it was enacted, especially since they explicitly said they’d sue New York State if Governor Cuomo signed the bill. Now, AirBnB has lawyered up and is suing Mayor Bill de Blasio, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the […]

A bill signed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday that penalizes some Airbnb users with steep fines reverberated this weekend around New York City, where thousands of Airbnb hosts could be breaking the new law…

Tuscaloosa city officials are moving forward with a crackdown on short-term rentals of homes across the city….

A Toronto group pushing for the regulation of short-term, Airbnb-style rentals is welcoming a city staff proposal to evaluate the impacts of the rentals and consider what kind of restrictions should be imposed on the booming business…

Condo and apartment dwellers across the country are now doing battle in the hallways of their owns buildings, as neighbours grapple with a problem that didn’t exist even five years ago…