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Quantum control infrastructure software specialist Q-Ctrl has appointed Alex Shih to the role of head of product.

Australian venture syndicate Ten13 has reached a new milestone with 550 experienced and sophisticated investors joining the new syndicate.

Hotel commerce platform SiteMinder reveals the lists of top distribution channels over the past year that earned the highest booking revenues to hotels in Australia and more than 20 other tourist destinations.

Airbnb adds new features to its system to serve travellers better, especially now that the pandemic has fundamentally changed tourism and travel.

GUEST OPINION by Alan Eldridge, VP Sales Engineering, Snowflake: As authorities around the world grapple with the COVID-19 viral pandemic, the value of timely and accurate data is becoming clearer by the day.

GUEST OPINION by Alan Eldridge, VP Sales Engineering, Snowflake: As authorities around the world grapple with the COVID-19 viral pandemic, the value of timely and accurate data is becoming clearer by the day.

StartCon is Australia's largest Start Up conference, with Uber, eBay, Airbnb just some of the international speakers, with 4000+ expected to arrive and around 100 international and local speakers - it's a can't miss event!

Despite US threats of an inquiry into its actions, France has passed a law to impose a 3% digital services tax on multinational technology companies like Google and Facebook.

France has passed a measure to impose a 3% tax on technology giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon, with the country's lower house of parliament voting to adopt a law that prevents multinationals from avoiding taxes by setting up headquarters in low-taxing EU countries.

Digital design platform InVision has appointed former vice-president at US software firm Acquia, Tom Richardson, as its first Asia-Pacific managing director.

Ok, ok, so Sydney isn't really being snubbed, it's just that travellers to Melbourne find Airbnb a very popular option compared with travellers to Sydney, according to the latest research.

Multinational US technology companies like Google and Facebook will have to pay a 3% turnover tax in the EU, according to a draft proposal from the European Commission.

Airbnb has launched a travel service on its global platform eight years after launching its now well-established accommodation service.

Online reviews of sharing services like Uber and Airbnb and other regular businesses will come under the microscope of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission as part of a worldwide move targeting such reviews and endorsements.

The analytical gurus at Juniper Research say that ‘space rental and ride-sharing’ are set to drive the ‘sharing economy,’ with Airbnb to surpass Uber.

Not all peer-to-peer sharing economy platforms like Airbnb, Uber or Aussie House Swap offer consumers the same levels of protection. With the popularity of these sites exploding as a result of trusting Australians embracing the more creative ways of both making and saving money, you should recognise the potholes to avoid in this so-called ‘sharing economy’.

"Disruption is a force for progress... it creates opportunity," CA Technologies CEO Mike Gregoire (pictured) told the keynote audience at CA World 15 today.

You can’t book a place to stay at the House where Sydney’s Opera is homed, but the Sydney Opera House and Airbnb have a two year partnership.

With plenty of debate over the disruptive forces of Uber, Airbnb, Apple Music and others, a Sydney-based tech innovation conference will look at ‘disruption for good’.

Optus has partnered with online accommodation service Airbnb in a deal which it says is designed to enable overseas travellers to stay connected “no matter how far from home they roam.”