5 posts and columns on guarantees

Airbnb’s Skyrocketing Growth Includes Four Million Nights Booked in 2011

in Commerce on January 26 at 6:00 am PT

Travelers have used Airbnb to book a total of five million guest nights over the past four years, staying in spare bedrooms and empty homes around the world.
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Who’s to Blame for Yahoo’s Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…

in News on July 19, 2011 at 2:02 pm PT

What happened to Yahoo revenue? Display sales in the U.S. gets the blame this quarter. While coming up with a new thing to blame for Q3, Yahoo execs try to explain it all for you.
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Plastic Logic Nabs New Funding, Plans Plant in Russia

in Mobile on January 17, 2011 at 5:00 pm PT

Plastic Logic, a start-up known for showing off (but not necessarily shipping) advanced e-book readers, said that it has finalized an investment deal to build a factory in Russia.

Spotify's Real News: No News! But Big Bags of Cash Might Help

in Media on October 27, 2010 at 2:58 pm PT

Spotify still doesn’t have a single deal with a U.S. music label, which makes it impossible to launch the service here. But a combination of compromise and cash could still get things done. And a pact with Sony is now “essentially signable.”

MySpace’s “Work in Progress”: Losing Money and Traffic, Blowing Google Guarantees

in Media on November 4, 2009 at 3:03 pm PT

Did Rupert Murdoch wait way too long to fix MySpace? It’s easy to get that impression from the News Corp. earnings call today. The takeaway: The site is losing traffic and money and is going to get at least $100 million less from Google than it once thought. “It’s a work in progress,” News Corp. says, over and over again.
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