Density of #Airbnb listings is much higher in SF than it is in other U.S. cities.

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#Apple's cash pile past the quarter trillion dollar mark in the first three months of 2017 - and it can buy TimeWarner, #Uber, #Sony, #Airbnb, #SnapChat, and #Twitter all together!

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​​German hotel reservation website HRS released data on hotel prices in major cities around the world with New York 🇺🇸 the most expensive with a room averaging $306 a night.

AirDNA is a website that tracks and analyzes the #Airbnb market & according to their data, an Airbnb room in New York would average $187 a night by comparison.

That would save travelers an impressive $119 which they could then splurge on all the attractions The Big Apple has to offer. Cooking in an Airbnb flat and avoiding restaurants can also save even more money for budget travelers.

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​​🇬🇧 London Is the World's Airbnb Capital

10 years ago, in early August 2008, the website Airbedandbreakfast.com went online, marking the birth of #Airbnb. Back then the three founders, Brian Cheky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk wanted to help short-term travelers find affordable accommodation and provide renters with an opportunity to make an extra buck by renting out spare rooms or even just the namesake airbed on the floor.

Now, it's about 10 years later and their little venture is valued at nearly $30 billion.

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​​💰 Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago

More people are working for ride-sharing and delivery companies but on average they’re making less.

On average, drivers who transport people (#Uber or #Lyft) or things (#UberEats or #Postmates) through an app made 53 percent less in 2017 than they did in 2013, according to a new study by the JPMorgan Chase Institute.

The average monthly payments to those who worked for a transportation app in a given month declined to $783 from $1,469. Meanwhile, people working for leasing apps — #Airbnb, Turo, Parklee and other apps that let you rent assets like your home, car or parking space — saw their incomes from those platforms rise 69 percent to $1,736 on average.

This is happening as online gig work has become more popular, thanks in large part to the growth in the number transportation jobs.

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​​🛎 American consumers spent more on Airbnb than on Hilton last year
And that means Airbnb now owns about 20 percent of the entire US consumer lodging market!

#Airbnb has long felt like an existential threat to hotel companies. New data shows that it actually is one.

US consumers spent more money on Airbnb last year than than they did on Hilton and its subsidiary brands like DoubleTree and Embassy Suites, according to new data from Second Measure, a company that analyzes billions of dollars in anonymized debit and credit card purchases. Their Airbnb spending is even catching up to Marriott, the world’s largest hotel company, which added to its revenue by acquiring Starwood hotels in 2016.

The data shows roughly 30 percent growth last year in US consumer spending on Airbnb, which is expected to go public next year and is currently valued at about $38 billion company.

Much of that growth, according to Second Measure, is coming from travelers who live in the Central US. Currently about a third of Airbnb’s US customers are from populous coastal states California, New York and Florida. That’s a departure from 2012 when people from those states made up half its customers.

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❤️ Ranking of Brand Intimacy During the Coronavirus Pandemic

#Spotify, the audio streaming app with 73 million users in North America, was ranked No. 1 in a study of #brand intimacy as apps strengthened their emotional bonds with consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic. #Pinterest and #AppleMusic came in second and third place.

🗳 Related Poll.

#Facebook #Instagram #Pandora #Snapchat #Twitter #Airbnb #Uber

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Tech, Media, and Business News Headlines — Day 5


👉 #Apple will host a virtual #WWDC this year — starts on 22 June (link)


👉 #Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies (link)
👉 #Twitter rolls out changes to threaded conversations following tests in its prototype app, #twttr (link)

👉 #Airbnb cuts 1,900 jobs, around 25% of its global workforce (link)


👉 #Bitcoin is set for ‘Halving’ this month (link)


👉 Leaked videos show #Lenovo’s first gaming #smartphone (link)

👉 #Android 11’s public beta to launch with 3 June via live stream (link)
👉 #Google’s #Stadia controller will finally work wirelessly with computers starting this week (link)


👉 #Microsoft launches #SurfaceBook 3 (link) and #SurfaceHeadphones 2 (link)
👉 #Microsoft offers $100,000 to hack its custom Linux OS (link)


👉 #Uber lays off 14% of its workforce in COVID-19-related cost-cutting (link)


👉 #Pinterest Q1: revenue of $272M, vs. $270M est., up 35% YoY; user base grew to 367M MAUs, up 26% YoY (link)


👉 #EA Q4: revenues of $1.39B, beating expectations of $1.19B, up 12% YoY (link)


#️⃣ #EarningsCalls

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