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Landlords are becoming more understanding--even baking Airbnb language right into the lease--but you've got to be honest with them. Yesterday, Brooklynite Chris Dannen told the tale of how he made $20,000 from renting his spare rooms out on accommodations marketplace Airbnb --that is, before his landlord hit him with a restraining order.

Want $20 back from Whole Foods when you use your AmEx card? Tweet #AmExWholeFoods. Here's what's behind the new deals for the sharing generation

I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest .

"It's been interesting talking about what's new with Bump 3.0 because the list of things that we're removing is longer than the list of things that we're adding," says Bump CEO David Lieb. "It's not a normal progression." There's a lesson in here for all of us.

Technology disasters happen.

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Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon.

With the Japanese launch of Sony's new handheld gaming device PlayStation Vita this weekend, the company is hoping to outplay not only the Nintendo 3DS, but also smartphones and tablets. We spoke with Sony's director of hardware marketing John Koller about how Vita can compete in the brave new portable world.

As the sharing economy expands, peer-to-peer exchange sites such as Refashioner have pushed the industry from power drills and waffle irons into communities trading in penthouses, Porsches, and Prada.

A site started by travel and search industry veterans--including Calvin Yang, who designed Google's image search--gives users a peek at what's inside and outside of a hotel room, before they arrive.

As the web universe continues to expand (just like the real one-- Hubbell’s Law anyone?) Kurt Abrahamson is hyper-focused on drilling down.

The iPhone 4S is a beaut. But no one has it yet, nor can every Apple fan afford to

How do you score a job at a buzz-worthy new venture fund if you don't have a background in finance, you're not an engineer, and never ran a venture-backed company? Be a muse, an authority, and maintain a serious network--that was the answer for Rachel Botsman, now a partner at Collaborative Fund .

Instead of constantly buying and discarding new products, what if everything was specifically designed to be recycled or broken down, mimicking the circular process of (non-human) life on earth? Our economy, you might have noticed, is founded largely on a culture of consumption and disposal

Businesses in the sharing economy have drawn public scrutiny, if not ire, of late.