AI startups bringing dollars but lean workforces to ailing San FranciscoUnlike past tech booms that have touched San Francisco, the generative AI craze brings fewer jobs, because AI firms excel at staying lean a...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.39 PM IST
Once an evangelist for Airbnbs, she now crusades for affordable housingFor Price, 27, and other young entrepreneurs of color, online short-term rental platforms like Airbnb and Vrbo represented a path to buildi...
14 May, 2023, 12.14 AM IST
20 destinations supporting remote work around the worldThey launched their Live and Work Anywhere initiative earlier this year to identify some of the world's most remote worker-friendly destina...
12 Jul, 2022, 12.01 PM IST
Riding the recovery wave - The tourism economyThe 7th Edition of ET Global Business Summit 2022 organized by the Times Group and The Economic Times saw participation from global busines...
22 Mar, 2022, 01.01 PM IST
Airbnb’s India business almost at pre-Covid levels: BlecharczykIn the past year, travellers on Airbnb travelled to 6,000 new cities and towns that before no one on Airbnb had ever been to. As internatio...
16 Mar, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Airbnb to open technology hub in BengaluruThe Bengaluru technology hub will aim to create local, skilled jobs, with plans for the centre to cater to a few hundred people in the init...
12 Mar, 2022, 11.34 PM IST
The travel industry is never going to be the same again, says Airbnb CEO Brian CheskyIn an exclusive chat with Satyan Gajwani, vice-chairman of Times Internet, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks about leading the company during t...
13 Oct, 2020, 08.49 PM IST
Two Indian firms in WEF list of tech pioneers for 2020From artificial intelligence (AI) to carbon capture, these companies are using innovations to protect the climate, improve healthcare and m...
16 Jun, 2020, 04.26 PM IST
Uber is reducing workforce by 14% and signals more cuts to comeUber instituted a hiring freeze in March, withdrew its financial forecast and wrote down some $2 billion worth of investments in April and ...
07 May, 2020, 09.04 AM IST
Other people’s money was the tech innovation of the decadeIn a feedback loop, once technology changes started seeping into more corners of life and business, investors were motivated to hunt for mo...
03 Jan, 2020, 09.59 AM IST
India could be a $3 trillion digi economy in the next 4-5 years:Ravi Shankar PrasadIT minister says India is world’s 2nd largest startup movement.
13 Mar, 2019, 11.44 PM IST
Tech giants get ready to reply to TRAI, worry over losing control on dataTrai has sought responses on required data protection regulations, user consent, data ownership, rights and responsibilities of data contro...
11 Oct, 2017, 01.27 PM IST
Indian tech startups get a space in Google's Sand HillGoogle is deepening its engagements with startups here to find a potential high-growth winner.
06 Jun, 2017, 08.21 AM IST
Uber-like bad behavior thrives in absence of human resourcesUber Technologies now joins a growing list of Silicon Valley companies that seem unable – or unwilling – to address bad behavior in the wor...
28 Feb, 2017, 10.20 AM IST
Josh Software sets up two firms in Internet of Things and app development spaceJosh is among the few companies in India that work exclusively in Ruby on Rails, an open source software which is the basis for apps such a...
09 Mar, 2016, 10.51 AM IST
Loaded with seed fund, Kalaari plans a ‘convertible’ rideThe company plans to invest Rs 135 crore in 40 startups over the next two years as a part of its seed and incubation programme.
04 Feb, 2016, 02.29 PM IST
Cloud computing here to stay; it's time companies extracted full benefit from itMost successful companies of recent times have one thing in common: they built their business using cloud computing services.
22 Jul, 2014, 01.59 PM IST