AOL, locked in a fierce battle with Microsoft over access to its AIM service, has announced collaborative agreements with Apple, EarthLink, MindSpring, Juno, and Novell to offer their customers co-branded AIM clients or their own instant messaging products linked to AIM.

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Nate Blecharczyk cofounder and CTO of Airbnb said that regulation should be different for collaborative consumption services because owners of homes or cars are usually the ones providing the service.

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