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Dog B&B Rover.com Digs Up $3.4M

Canine boarder market could be worth more than $6B

(Newser) - Rover.com , the online alternative for dog-boarding, has picked up $3.4 million in funding, reports All Things D . Rover has been compared to Airbnb, although Rover's latest round of funding looks pretty tame in comparison to the $112 million Airbnb picked up last July. But with just... More »

Airbnb User Trashes Home of Stranger

Company on defensive after honor system doesn't quite work

(Newser) - It's been quite the up-and-down week for Airbnb, a start-up that helps people rent their homes to vacationing strangers. All began great when the company secured a $1 billion valuation, notes the Wall Street Journal . Then a PR disaster: A San Francisco woman blogged about how she returned from... More »

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