Billionaire tech investor Yuri Milner renounced his Russian citizenship in August, after leaving Russia in 2014; Milner has been an Israeli citizen since 1999 (Joseph Pisani/Wall Street Journal)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Airbnb launches a program to help renters find an apartment in 25 US markets and then list a spare room or occasionally the whole apartment on the platform  —  Airbnb really wants you to Airbnb an apartment.  So its latest step is to find renters a place, which they can also list on the travel booking platform.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
Sources: the EU plans light-touch rules for Airbnb and other rental companies, including providing data on usership, in a bid to unify laws across the bloc  —  Airbnb (ABNB.O) and other short-term home rental companies will have to provide data on numbers using their services and how many nights …

Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Some guests and hosts say Airbnb permanently banned them after background checks by third-party company Inflection revealed minor offenses or old misdemeanors  —  Airbnb customers say they are being permanently banned after background checks reveal minor offenses like broken tail lights and old misdemeanors.

Kate Clark / The Information:
SBF quietly invested $500M+ in Paradigm, Altimeter, and other VCs, including, sources say a $200M commitment to Sequoia, and $300M to K5 per PitchBook  —  FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was not only a tireless fundraiser from venture capital firms including Paradigm and Sequoia Capital …

Harmeet Singh Walia / Counterpoint Research:
Global smartphone shipments fell 12% YoY to 301M units in Q3 2022, the lowest Q3 level since 2014; Apple was the only top-five brand to grow YoY, up 2%  —  – The global smartphone market declined by 12% YoY even as it grew by 2% QoQ to reach 301 million units in Q3 2022.

Wall Street Journal:
New US export controls may affect 43+ senior execs at 16 public semiconductor companies in China, forcing them to choose between US citizenship and their jobs  —  At least 43 senior executives working with 16 listed Chinese semiconductor companies hold roles from CEO to vice president