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 by Staff Writers New York (AFP) Sept 19, 2019
Airbnb, the internet home stay company which disrupted the hotel and travel industry, said Thursday it plans to make its stock market debut next year but offered few details. Launched in 2008, the company is considered a "unicorn," a startup valued at more than $1 billion even before its initial public offering. The stock launch comes in the wake of other highly anticipated Wall Street launches for companies in the "gig" economy, which have not been resounding successes. Ride-hailing service Uber is down about 24 percent since the start of trading, and office sharing firm WeWork this week delayed its IPO as its valuation tumbled. Investors have begun to question the business models for these startups, with many burning through capital and struggling to convince markets they can turn the corner. The San Francisco-based Airbnb offers lodging at more than six million unique locations in nearly 100,000 cities and 191 countries, according to the its website. The company has sought to diversify in recent years, attempting to branch out into restaurant reservations and "experiences," in which third-parties can offer local activities in addition to lodging. The company's rise has provoked stern opposition in some places where activists and municipalities say it undermines the hotel industry and squeezes supplies on rental and real estate markets, driving up costs and making cities less affordable. dho/dg/hs
Washington Post ad tech platform aims at Google-Facebook duopoly Washington (AFP) Sept 17, 2019 The Washington Post on Tuesday unveiled a new ad tech platform touted as a way to help newspapers counter the loss in online revenue to major platforms Google and Facebook. The daily, which is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said the new self-service ad-buying interface called Zeus Prime would be offered to other newspapers as part of its Arc Publishing platform. "Through Zeus Prime, buyers will be able to easily execute an ad campaign by creating an ad format in a single click and targeting ... read more
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