CEO Brian Chesky has been promising to take the brand "beyond the core." In his eyes, Airbnb has the potential to be much more than a home-sharing platform, and the company took its first steps in ...

Airbnb ( ABNB 0.91%) has been teasing followers for a while about some big news coming to change the company fundamentally. The announcement is out, and it's not as earth-shattering as one might have ...