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Unique accommodations - Airbnb, Vrbo examples

Unique accommodations - Airbnb, Vrbo examples

Online Communities, Groups, and the Music Industry

Online Communities, Groups, and the Music Industry

Uber - interntional expansion, acquisitions, business model, strategy

a collection of articles about Uber's international business model and strategy

Data Sets, Open Access and AI in medicine and health care

Data Sets and AI in medicine and health care

Zeus Living - Airbnb competitor, alternative for renting housing, apartments

Zeus Living - Airbnb competitor, alternative for renting housing, apartments

Airbnb - cities and affordable housing

Airbnb - cities and affordable housing

Art, creativity, writing and open, sharing, crowdsourcing

Art, creativity, writing and open, sharing, crowdsourcing

WeWork Labs

WeWork Labs - Empowering Global Innovation

Museums, Art galleries and open access, sharing

Art galleries and open access, sharing

Uber - profits, losses, business model, strategy

a collection of articles about Uber - business model and strategy

Airbnb - competitors, alternatives for renting housing, apartments

a collection of articles about Airbnb - competitors, alternatives for renting housing, apartments

WeWork and acquisitions

A collection of articles and videos looking at wework

Communities, Groups, and Crowdsourced Information - Wikipedia, and Others

a collection of articles about Communities, Groups, and Crowdsourced Information - Wikipedia, and...

Team Collaboration - software, tools for projects

a collection of Team Collaboration - software, tools for projects

Airbnb

online marketplace and hospitality services, short-term lodging including holiday cottages, apart...

Wikipedia

a collection of articles about Wikipedia

Contractors vs Employees- Gig economy rights

a collection about Contractors vs Employees- Gig economy rights

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Fluid Truck, the Zipcar of commercial trucks, raises $63M to take on rental giants – TechCrunch

Fluid Truck has built an app-based platform that aims to take away the pain and cost of owning or leasing commercial vehicles, all while grabbing m... (2021)


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Uber loses gig workers rights challenge in UK Supreme Court – TechCrunch

Uber has lost a long-running employment tribunal challenge in the U.K.’s Supreme Court — with the court dismissing the ride-hailing giant’s appeal ... (2021)


Article

Libraries lend books, and must continue to lend books: Internet Archive responds to publishers’ lawsuit

Yesterday, the Internet Archive filed our response to the lawsuit brought by four commercial publishers to end the practice of Controlled Digital L... (2020)


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J.K. Rowling is releasing a new book chapter-by-chapter online for free

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has a new children’s book, The Ickabog, which will be released over the next seven weeks chapter-by-chapter. Rowli... (2020)


Article

National Geographic launches a homeschool hub for parents and teachers, NatGeo@Home

The COVID-19 outbreak has closed schools across most of the U.S., impactingmore than 55 million students who are now learning at home. That's creat... (2020)


Article

U.S. researchers must share results to quickly combat coronavirus

By simply requiring that scientists funded by U.S. tax dollars openly share the results of their work, the Trump administration can end the needles... (2020)


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Vacation rentals: 9 alternatives to Airbnb - Curbed

From a vacation rental company that focuses on families to one that wants to combat racism, here are nine alternatives for your next vacation. (2016)


Article

The Internet Relies on People Working for Free - OneZero

When you buy a product like Philips Hue’s smart lights or an iPhone, you probably assume the people who wrote their code are being paid. While that... (2019)


Article

Sony launches a taxi-hailing app to rival Uber in Tokyo – TechCrunch 2019

Sony last year announced it would enter Japan’s taxi-hailing space and, good to its word, the electronics giant has kicked off its S.Ride service i... (2019)


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Uber and Lyft are losing money. At some point, we’ll pay for it. - The Washington Post

Customers will be in for a rude shock when the companies start charging us what the rides are actually worth. (2019)


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UC terminates subscriptions with scientific publisher in push for open access to publicly funded research

As a leader in the global movement toward open access to publicly funded research, the University of California is taking a firm stand by deciding ... (2019)


Article

Lime raises another $310 million, bringing its valuation to $2.4 billion | VentureBeat

On-demand electric scooter startup Lime announced that it has closed a $310 series D round, which values the company at $2.4 billion. (2019)


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Go-Jek makes first close of $2 billion round at $9.5 billion valuation – TechCrunch

Southeast Asia-based ride-sharing firm Go-Jek is making progress with its plan to raise up to $2 billion in fresh capital to fund its battle with c... (2019)


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Elsevier journal editors resign, start rival open-access journal

Following in the footsteps of linguistics journal Lingua, the editorial board of the Elsevier-owned Journal of Informetrics has resigned and launch... (2019)


Article

High score, low pay: why the gig economy loves gamification - The Guardian

The long read: Using ratings, competitions and bonuses to incentivise workers isn’t new – but as I found when I became a Lyft driver, the gig econo... (2018)


Article

BlaBlaCar to acquire Ouibus and offer bus service – TechCrunch

French startup BlaBlaCar is announcing plans to acquire Ouibus, the bus division of France’s national railway company SNCF. For the first time, Bla... (2018)


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Grab lands $50M from Thailand’s Kasikorn Bank to further its fintech push – TechCrunch

Southeast Asia ride-hailing firm Grab is continuing to add strategic investors to its ongoing Series H round — which is targeted at more than $3 bi... (2018)


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Ford Buying San Francisco-Area e-Scooter Startup Spin - The New York Times

Ford Motor Co said Thursday it will join the mushrooming micro-mobility movement with the acquisition of 2-year-old Spin, an electric scooter renta... (2018)


Article

SF fines two landlords $2.25 million for illegal Airbnb rentals – TechCrunch

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying down the law — literally. Today, Herrera’s office announced a $2.25 million settlement with tw... (2018)


Article

Ride-hailing startup Shohoz raises $15M to build the Grab of Bangladesh – TechCrunch

Uber may be global but it is very much the alternative in some parts of the world. One such place is Bangladesh — the South Asian country that’s ho... (2018)


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Introducing the OER Champion Playbook | Lumen Learning

Lumen Learning introduces the OER Champion Playbook, a set of tactics and activities designed to help OER champions strategize, score, and win at s... (2018)


Article

Electric scooters: why Bird, Lime, Skip, and Spin are taking over cities - Vox

Turns out there’s a lot of latent demand for a quick and cheap way to get around. (2018)


Article

Theft! A History of Music

A graphic novel laying out a 2000 year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. The comic, by James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and the lat... (2018)


Article

Motor Scooters Race to Catch Up With Electric Scooters - The Atlantic

Shared, electric motor scooters are racing to catch up with Bird, Lime, and other kick-scooter brands, as tech companies attempt to reinvent urban ... (2018)



Article

Lyft beefs up car rental program for drivers

As of late, Lyft has been doubling down on its messaging that it wants to reduce the amount of car ownership in the U.S. The company’s most recent ... (2018)


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Grab picks up $2 billion more to fuel growth in post-Uber Southeast Asia – TechCrunch

Grab, the ride-hailing service that struck a deal to take Uber out of Southeast Asia, has announced that it has pulled in $2 billion in new capital... (2018)


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Uber won its license back in London - Business Insider

Uber spent two days in Westminster Magistrates' Court arguing that it deserved to have its London license back after the capital's regulator, Trans... (2018)


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Why Lyft Is Trying to Become the Next Subscription Business | WIRED

After months of testing its fledgling membership program, Lyft is betting that the model that built loyal followings for Netflix and Spotify can al... (2018)


Article

Scooter startup Bird is seeking a $2 billion valuation - Axios

VCs have never before participated in such a rapid and rocketing price spike. (2018)


Video

Smithsonian Open Access: 2.8 Million Images Are Yours to Use

People everywhere can now download, remix and share Smithsonian Open Access content for any purpose, for free, from portraits of historic Americans... (2020)


Video

Driving For Uber, Sleeping In Her Car (HBO )

On Wednesday at 2:30 AM, Uber driver Terri White left her home in Stockton, California, and drove 83 miles to San Francisco for work. She wouldn’t ... (2018)


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medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences

medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution (2020)


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Help With COVID 19 - a clearing house for projects and volunteers

Help With COVID 19 - a clearing house for projects and volunteers that want to help with the COVID-19 crisis. These projects were posted... (2020)


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Edmodo Spotlight

Edmodo Spotlight - Share Your Most Engaging Teaching Resources. Discover and share the best K-12 classroom content, lesson plans, worksheets, and... (2018)


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