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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 473

sharing economy

A WeWork office in New York City, July 19, 2019. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)
October 15, 2019, 12:47 pm
WeWork warns it found cancer-causing chemical in some of its office phone booths
Workspace sharing company, already facing financial woes, informs tenants that due to presence of formaldehyde, it has closed 2,300 booths used for private voice and video calls
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Jews in a sukkah in Jerusalem, September 21, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
October 10, 2019, 10:28 am
Open Sukkah offers a holiday home to weary travelers, city dwellers in Israel
‘Airbnb for sukkahs’ connects hosts from Tasmania to Saskatoon with those who don’t have a hut in which to celebrate festival
By Luke Tress
Swimming in a pool in San Jose, California rented on the Swimply app on September 10, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2019, 6:35 am
Pool rental app dives into deep end of sharing economy
22-year-old US Orthodox Jew Bunim Laskin founded Swimply to rent out neighborhood pools — and let his 11 siblings have a splashing good time
By Melanie Lidman
Itai Neter
June 14, 2016, 1:00 pm
Itai Neter
Click for crash: How online vacation services are killing Tel Aviv’s rental market
When it comes to homes-turned-hotels, it would be safe to assume that even when deducting one-time renters and occasional posters, the issue affects at least 5 percent of the Tel Aviv market
View of a WeWork lounge (Photo credit: Courtesy)
From the WebJune 13, 2016, 2:38 pm
The $16 billion brand that came from a Kibbutz
Vanity Fair: Adam Neumann, an Israeli emigrant who grew up on a kibbutz, co-founded WeWork, an office sharing company with some 50,000 members around the world in about 100 international sites and a valuation of $16 billion
An Airbnb listing in the settlement of Kfar Adumim, accessed on January 12, 2016. (Screen capture: AirBnB)
April 21, 2016, 3:13 pm
Pictures of hosts, not homes, key for Airbnb renters, study shows
Hebrew University researchers find that trust — based on photos — is a primary factor in how much users were willing to pay
By David Shamah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with the owners of the Israeli start-up Waze in Jerusalem, January 15, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)
July 6, 2015, 6:27 pm
Google readies Tel Aviv beta for ride-sharing via Waze
RideWith app will match drivers with passengers going their way
By David Shamah
Waze at work in Menlo Park, California (photo credit: AP/Paul Sakuma)
June 10, 2015, 7:31 pm
Waze tops in sharing app user satisfaction, study shows
Analysis of thousands of reviews shows that the Israeli-developed traffic application is most popular among users
By David Shamah
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