Tag: Airbnb
How Tim Höttges makes Telekom look better than it is
Telekom T The idiosyncratic structure of the group becomes a problem. Under CEO Timotheus Höttges, the former state-owned company grew to unprecedented heights – in terms of both profit and…
How Tim Höttges makes Telekom look better than it is
Telekom T The idiosyncratic structure of the group becomes a problem. Under CEO Timotheus Höttges, the former state-owned company grew to unprecedented heights – in terms of both profit and…
Airbnb counters accommodation bans with a change of strategy
Berlin Airbnb founder Brian Chesky announced in a press release last Wednesday that it is going back to the roots. What is meant is the procurement of sofa beds and…
The Parisians want to earn money from the 2024 Olympics
Rings in front of the Eiffel Tower The Olympic Games are a business for companies and individuals. (Photo: dpa [M]) Paris The Saint-Denis district of Paris is not usually one…
ChatGPT creator Sam Altmann wants to scan everyone’s eyes
Sam Altman The head of OpenAI is one of the most important thought leaders in Silicon Valley. (Photo: dpa) Redmond, San Francisco Sam Altman is currently the most in-demand technology…
Interest rate shock on the real estate market – Mortgage interest rates put homeowners in Europe in trouble
House for sale in the UK House prices on the island fell the most since 2009 in March. (Photo: Juergen Schwarz) Vienna, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, London, Stockholm The rapid turnaround…
Interest rate shock on the real estate market – Mortgage interest rates put homeowners in Europe in trouble
Vienna, Paris, Madrid, London, Stockholm The rapid turnaround in interest rates by the major central banks is causing turmoil on the European real estate markets. Soaring mortgage rates combined with…
What attracts German emigrants to Mexico
Traffic in Mexico City The rents in the city have risen significantly due to the immigrants. (Photo: Reuters) Mexico City Gerd Weißbach’s wanderlust led him to Mexico. The East Frisian…
What attracts German emigrants to Mexico
Traffic in Mexico City The rents in the city have risen significantly due to the immigrants. (Photo: Reuters) Mexico City Gerd Weißbach’s wanderlust led him to Mexico. The East Frisian…
Is Germany threatened with economic decline?
Clemens Fuest The author is President of the Ifo Institute. What is the future of Germany’s economic model? The Russian attack on Ukraine has triggered a debate about the further…
Economic model Germany – Decline or second economic miracle?
Clemens Fuest The author is President of the Ifo Institute. What is the future of Germany’s economic model? The Russian attack on Ukraine has triggered a debate about the further…
Companies in the USA are pushing for a presence
san francisco At Amazon’s workforce, tempers are currently boiling up. No, not because the group is experiencing one of the worst crises in the company’s history and is almost no…
Companies in the USA are pushing for a presence
san francisco At Amazon’s workforce, tempers are currently boiling up. No, not because the group is experiencing one of the worst crises in the company’s history and is almost no…
Wefox collects millions more
Wefox stand at the industry meeting in Dortmund 2019 The company wants to bring insurers, brokers and customers together. (Photo: imago images/Cord) Dusseldorf, Frankfurt Insurance startup Wefox has raised an…
Tax authorities hunt tax evaders on online platforms
woman at the computer If you sell a lot online, you should keep a sales diary. (Photo: DigitalVision/Getty Images) Frankfurt Online trading is booming. Thanks to marketplaces such as Airbnb,…
Entrepreneur Daniel Bartel challenges RWE in Lützerath
Daniel Bartels Bartel wants to make a difference in the fight against climate change. (Photo: Timo Knorr, Imago, Reuters, AP) Lützerath When Daniel Bartel drives into a parking lot on…
Brussels makes Airbnb & Co. deputy sheriff
Dusseldorf The EU has identified a problem that costs member states billions a year: VAT evasion on short-term rentals. EU Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni estimates the total revenue that the…
Jeff Lawson wants to make cookies obsolete
Twilio boss Jeff Lawson “We give companies back control of their customer relationships.” (Photo: Bloomberg) san francisco Anyone who moves on the Internet is tracked digitally. When a website is…
Germany’s chief innovator Rafael Laguna is pushing for more freedom in start-up funding
Rafael Lagoon The Sprind boss will manage a funding budget of 180 million euros in 2023 – and would like to be able to deal with it more freely. (Photo:…
Hardly any IPOs, falling company valuations, more insolvencies
Berlin The start-up industry celebrated a record year in 2021. Now, at the end of 2022, the situation looks very different. The turnaround in interest rates, the war in Ukraine,…