Peer2Politics

The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Inter-generationally, there are more mice, the mice are more hungry, and there is less cheese in life’s maze.

Australia's Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, had nothing but appreciation for one of the sharing economy's shining stars, Airbnb, on Wednesday at the CeBIT technology conference in Sydney.

The tech industry is morally and ethically bankrupt, and it's starting to take its toll on ordinary Americans

Startups like Uber and Airbnb, which form the core of the new "sharing economy," can have a particularly positive effect on people with lower incomes, according to a new report.

In the wake of the partnership hatched between Uber and CMU to further the former’s cause of research into mapping and autonomous transportation, it has surfaced that Google, one of the major investors in Uber, is planning on competing against Uber...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin spaceflight company are making preparations to launch their suborbital spaceship skyward with a newly designed rocket.

Companies like Uber, FancyHands, Airbnb and Snagajob are flourishing, driven by technology, a slow economic recovery and consumer demand. But what does that mean for today's workers?

Airbnb and Uber are the twin pillars of the sharing economy, two enormously successful startups in San Francisco that have transformed entire industries.