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Fast Company Alice Truong	Airbnb Says It Will Pay Hotel Taxes In San Francisco Cooperating with local regulators, home rental website Airbnb has agreed to pay San Francisco's 14% hotel tax, a week after the company said it would begin collecting hotel taxes in Portland.
Fast Company Austin Carr	What Hotel Operators Really Think Of Airbnb Airbnb, the online service which enables hosts to rent out their homes or spare bedrooms, has become a threat to the traditional hotel companies, which are now trying to figure out ways to compete in the sharing economy.
Fast Company Alice Truong	Have A Digital Life, But Love Writing By Hand? This Notebook Is For You Marshall Haas and Jon Wheatley created Mod, a paper notebook accessible to the cloud, launched Monday. After filling up the notebook's pages, users can send them to a facility to be digitized.
Fast Company Austin Carr	The Secret To Airbnb's Freakishly Rapid Orgy Response: "Scenario Planning" "Because we're a high-profile company, there are things that will go wrong," Airbnb hospitality chief Chip Conley told me recently. "So how do we deal with the aftermath of things that don't go well?"
Fast Company April 2014 Austin Carr	Inside Airbnb's Grand Hotel Plans Counting beds on offer, Airbnb is already the fifth-largest hotelier in the world, with unparalleled global reach. The startup, whose prices are at least one-sixth cheaper than its traditional rivals, expects to have 1 million listings by the end of 2014.
Fast Company Alice Truong	OpenTable To Introduce Mobile Payments OpenTable, which allows diners to reserve tables via a computer or mobile app, now seats 14 million diners a month across more than 31,000 restaurants.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	Breather, Like Zipcar For Workspaces, Launches In NYC Instead of paying monthly rent for a desk you use once or twice a week, the Breather app lets you duck into one of its small, cozy workspaces for an hourly fee.
Fast Company Chris Gayomali	How VSCO Grid Plans To Set Itself Apart From Instagram VSCO -- short for Visual Supply Company, but pronounced "VisCo" -- formed in 2011, when Joel Flory and his cofounder Greg Lutze started a business designing WordPress templates for photographers.
Fast Company Alice Truong	Not Your Typical Hackathon: Symantec's Cyberwar Simulation Transforms Employees Into Criminals The security software company hosted a different kind of hackathon: Employees were tasked with breaking into a fictitious bank.
Fast Company March 2014 Baratunde Thurston	Limitless There is no limit to ideas that embrace scarcity online. When scarcity itself becomes precious, could it be that it becomes more valuable? The author offers some recommendations for these services online.
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