Ubiquitous "nice enough" furniture and lifestyles accessories company Ikea has announced that the next step in its plans for total global domination is no, not a better instructional manual or easier-to-assemble drawers, but rather a chain of budget design hotels.
Even with updated security measures, Airbnb hasn't insulated the system from the risks inherent to renting out your home to strangers from the Internet. Like, the risk that someone will use your apartment as a temporary brothel, which is apparently what happened in Stockholm.
Fifty Shades of Grey insanity has now reached complete saturation (we hope): In addition to Fifty Shades sheets, hotels in Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco are offering packages based on the erotica trilogy.
The superiority complex of Mac users has been confirmed, again. And we will pay for it.
The latest numbers out of Airbnb lead us to believe that the service, which helps people rent out their homes as hotels, has overcome the reputation it developed over the summer as the type of business that lets drug addicts and slobs ruin houses.
Plus: Children really don't need all that stuff
After two incidents the company hasn't been as apologetic as you'd expect
We go through the differences Google highlights
Two hotels where maids reported attacks have introduced the new security measure
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