Airbnb and Uber join new lobbying group to take on regulators

The ‘sharing’ economy is but one part of the big tech opportunity that remains on the minds of regulators across the world. New York’s Major Bill DeBlasio has come to a peaceful, short-term deal with Uber that has seen the city drop plans to cap the number of Uber drivers pending a four-month traffic study. But Airbnb’s situation is still up in the air as the Mayor struggles to decide if and how to regulate those people who are using Airbnb to create hotel businesses – and driving up rents for normal New Yorkers in the process. Now the most powerful names in…
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