After all, it seems Google bought Motorola for patents and attacking Apple and co'. I know, Google is not directly suing Apple, but the act of giving those patents to HTC constitutes to suing Apple.
Yes the quality of the comments increased, but the number of comments decreased in every article which implies less interaction. Thus if this trend goes, techcrunch might end comment less. thus loosing the free publicity that they after.
I am wondering how much money that techcrunch gets from the facebook in oder to keep their comment system. Disqus is much better system than facebook comments.
It is not Airbnb's fault, but he is just pointing out that the growth of the service will bring more shady people and currently there is no easy way to weed out those shady people.
It is unlikely they will ever get close to energy (oil) companies. and by the way they need to IPO so that we can know what their revenue and expenses are.
you can't compare Religous Book(Koran, bible, etc) to a flag. they are totally different, flag represents one nation while the other (religous book) might represent many nations. muslims don't burn Bible. americans can burn iraq's or iran's flag and no body will speak about that.