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Airbnb is raising another $850 million, valuing the company at $30 billion, Bloomberg reported.  The news stems from a late July filing in Delaware.  One year ago, the sharing economy powerhouse was worth $25.6 billion, according to Equidate.  Not including … Continue reading →

Image: Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Straddling a picturesque semicircular bay, the small Mexican port of Acapulco first came to the attention of well-to-do tourists following a visit by Edward, Prince of Wales in 1920. Foreign investment came next, and … Continue reading →

The United States just won the first gold medal of the Rio Olympic games.  Unfortunately, as fate would have it, one of the most high-profile wins of the games indirectly relates to one of the controversial parts of American life … Continue reading →

Welcome back, MashTalkers! Pete is out this week, so Lance and I are joined by Mashable Product Analyst Ray Wong to talk about everything happening in the world of tech.  SEE ALSO: Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is classy, powerful and … Continue reading →

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Season 4 of Hulu’s East Los High may have already debuted but Mashable’s got an exclusive clip that has yet to be viewed.  The show revolves around teens growing up in a working-class neighborhood in East Los Angeles.  … Continue reading →

BEVERLY HILLS, California — Hulu is upping its documentary game. At the streaming service’s Television Critics Association presentation on Friday afternoon, SVP and Head of Content Craig Erwich unveiled a handful of new “limelight documentaries” about pop culture personas. SEE … Continue reading →

We already have real lightsabers and levitating Death Stars, so it was only a matter of time before we got a real, working Star Wars Speeder bike.   The vehicle, first shown in Return of the Jedi, was recently recreated … Continue reading →

Despite her belief in body positivity and supporting other women in business, Kim Kardashian West is still hesitant to embrace the word “feminist.” “Everyone always asks, are you a feminist?” she said during her keynote interview at the BlogHer ’16 … Continue reading →

About two weeks ago, while I was busy Snapchatting all the people at the park playing Pokémon Go, I wondered for a hot second why Instagram doesn’t let you add text, drawings and emoji to your posts. Then I chuckled … Continue reading →

It was never going to be pretty: an Olympic opening ceremony with no GIFs, hours of commercials, a massive delay and overbearing anchors.  Welcome to NBC’s 2016 Rio Olympic coverage. The network filled its primetime coverage of the opening ceremony … Continue reading →