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Mike Curtis may not have the typical background of someone dedicated to vanquishing bureaucracy. AltaVista, AOL, Yahoo, Facebook — he’s…

We are excited to announce that Airbnb will be hosting our annual tech conference, OpenAir. We’ll be hosting it on June 4th at CityView At The Metreon from 9:00am — 7:00 pm.

OpenAir is the premier tech conference that focuses on creating engineering solutions…

This past June we hosted our first Taking Flight event. The evening centered around women in engineering and the presentations and discussions were wide ranging, looking at everything from “Infrastructure, demystified” to…

I’ve been working on Verified ID since we first conceived of the idea almost a year ago. We launched this product last month, but I wanted to dig into more of the technical reasoning behind the decisions we made. I read this blog post on hacker news last night, and…

We recently released our iPhone app. We are happy to report that not only has the feedback been very positive, but the app has been featured by Apple and was one of the top 5 apps within the travel category of the App Store.

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Airbnb is creating a new marketplace for space, and is facing many of the challenges that eBay faced back in 1998 when they created a new…