View original post.A recent survey found that frequent business travelers are working harder than ever to extend their stays for pleasure purposes. According to the La Quinta Means Business national survey, 64 percent of business travelers have extended a trip secretly for personal vacation without telling someone, including their coworkers (32 percent), boss (26 percent) and even their own partner …

View original post.Andrew Kitchell has a long history with Airbnb. A tech entrepreneur in San Francisco, Kitchell listed a couch in his apartment on the nascent site in 2009, when it was still called Air Bed and Breakfast. His was one of the first 100 properties to appear on the platform. More than a decade later, with Airbnb having evolved …

View original post. Airbnb announced its purchase of Urbandoor, a marketplace for business travel booking. Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images Airbnb’s latest buy is a business travel marketplace. The home share platform announced its acquisition of Urbandoor, a startup specializing in offering physical workplace amenities, on Monday. SEE ALSO: Airbnb ‘Adventures’ Debuts to Accommodate Thrill-Seeking Travelers “As we work to grow this …

View original post.WHY IT RATES: Two major players in the travel industry have come together in a blockbuster deal.—Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer. BCD Travel announced it has acquired Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Adelman Travel Group. Adelman is one of the largest full-service travel management companies in North America. “We’re very proud to bring a prominent TMC like Adelman into the …

View original post.Los Angeles is the best city in the United States for business travel, according to a new study by Fundera, an online marketplace for small business financial solutions. Los Angeles is the number one city in the United States for Business travel. TheCrimsonRibbon/Getty The study reports: According to research by Expedia, more than 60% of travelers extend business …

View original post.Ever dreamed of living in a giant experiment? If so, Toronto may be the city for you. Sidewalk Labs has released blueprints for its proposed waterfront smart city and, depending who you ask, it’s either going to be the pinnacle of modern living or an Orwellian nightmare. Cities typically develop in a pretty organic fashion, but the Alphabet …

View original post.Setting her sights on Toronto’s Quayside plan to convert 12 acres of former industrial and docking land into a community that is connected from the ground up, Ann Cavoukian envisions a “smart city of privacy, not a smart city of surveillance.” The concept presented by its steward, Waterfront Toronto, is to transform the lakeside land and its conventional …

View original post.FinTech, HealthTech, Insurtech, AgTech, AdTech, FoodTech…the list goes on. Technology is transforming every industry, without exception and these are not so much buzzwords, but the way we can expect to conduct our business moving forward. Research from Saȉd Business School at the University of Oxford claims that PropTech emerged out of the FinTech movement. Yet, while FinTech dominates …

View original post.As nice as it’d be to have the option of catching up on some reading — or sleep — while an autonomous vehicle drives you to work, the real draw of self-driving cars is the idea that they’ll be safer drivers than whoever just cut you off in the exit lane with inches to spare. After all, if …

View original post.Waymo, Google’s former self-driving venture that is now a business under Alphabet, has been given permission by California regulators to transport passengers in its robotaxis, TechCrunch has learned. The approval is a milestone for the company as it begins to ramp up toward a commercial service. The California Public Utilities Commission granted Waymo a permit on Tuesday to …