What had been a relatively civil legal proceeding spilled into the press this week when the rental startup and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman met in court on Tuesday. Airbnb has said the attorney general “is determined to fight innovation and attack regular people.” The attorney general's office claims it has worked with numerous other tech companies to stamp out illegal activity, but that Airbnb is being evasive.
In January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Energy Planning Board released the Draft New York State Energy Plan. The stated purpose of the plan is “to set forth a vision for New York’s energy future that connects a vibrant public sector market with communities and individual customers to create a dynamic clean energy economy.”
Thanks to services such as Lyft, ride-sharing is now a much more accepted idea, except when it comes to the taxi business. Michael Szell at MIT’s Senseable City Lab, recently found out that 80% of all cab journeys in the city could have been shared. With more than150 million taxi trips taken in 2011, it’s clear that if people embrace the sharing economy, they could have an enormous environmental, and social impact on New York City.
General Assembly is one of New York's hottest and most unique coworking spaces. Learn why its founders decided to offer technology classes along with work spaces.
It’s far too soon, of course, to begin drawing comparisons between de Blasio’s election and the epochal achievements of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery campaign. But King’s larger notion—that historical forces converged to create an opening through which the modern civil rights movement would erupt—is instructive in evaluating the meaning of what many progressive New Yorkers are now labeling “the de Blasio moment.” Now as then, the hot winds of the zeitgeist conspired to shape both the figures and events rattling the cage of the status quo.
Lisa Gansky, author of The Mesh and a well-known West Coast tech entrepreneur (the photo sharing tool Ofoto was partly her doing) introduced a beautiful phrase at yesterday’s Municipal Art Society Summit in New York City: "meanwhile use.
Thanks to a poorly written law originally designed to stop slumlords from running illegal hotels, the New York Attorney General's office is going after Airbnb hosts. Join me in telling New York State Senators: Legalize sharing!
See how the Taxi and Limousine commission is using our open data portal to get up-to-date training and licensing information out to NYC's cab drivers. By eliminating a manual process, Open Data brings up-to-date information six days a week to the Taxi industry.
In a setback for the sharing economy, the Office of the New York Attorney General has issued a subpoena demanding data about all Airbnb hosts in New York.
A New York man who was fined $2400 for renting a room in his condo to two Russian tourists will get his money back, following a new ruling that will add to the debate about the sharing economy and short term rentals.
There's a seminal case with potential global impact unfolding in New York where Airbnb, the world's hottest accommodation company, is waging an increasingly personal battle with attorney general Eric Schneiderman, who this this week filed an affidavit with the state Supreme Court claiming that most Airbnb listings in New York are illegal.
FORTUNE -- It's been brewing for some time, but last year's $403 million sale of Makerbotmade it real: New York is a place for hardware innovation. Not only could the city produce a big splashy hardware exit, it could support a whole host of younger startups, including Quirky, the platform for inventors of consumer electronics; Adafruit Industries, maker of DIY electronics kits; and Shapeways, another 3-D printing startup.
Editor's Note: This is first in a series of data dives into Airbnb's listings in New York City. We believe Airbnb vs NYC is the defining fight of the shari (RT @hkanji: Airbnb versus New York City is one of the defining fights of the sharing economy.
Ask a bunch of New Yorkers where they spend their money: apartments, cars, vacation lodgings, maybe designer handbags. In the new American “sharing economy,” these can all be enjoyed at a fraction of their normal cost.
How I became a victim—or a perpetrator—of the sharing economy, at least in the eyes of the New York attorney general. (How I became a victim—or a perpetrator—of the sharing economy via Airbnb.
The sharing economy, or as some call it the collaborative consumption economy, is still in its early infancy and companies like Airbnb, Lyft, RelayRides and their peers are the hottest topic in the startup world right now.
An offshoot of Occupy Wall Street is helping people to tap services that run on "mutualism," like community gardens, CSAs, credit unions, and healthcare providers with sliding scales.
An offshoot of Occupy Wall Street is helping people to tap services that run on "mutualism," like community gardens, CSAs, credit unions, and healthcare providers with sliding scales.
A big regulatory victory for Airbnb today: the company has managed to win an appeal in New York City over a fine against a host called Nigel Warren, whose landlord was fined $2,400 in June after Warren rented out a room in his apartment.
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