Couchsurfing.com is a website that lets travelers shop for free couches to crash on in the cities they’re visiting (and Couchsurfing will probably get a swooshier, sexier logo now. Couchsurfing.com is ...

Trust. At the beginning we take it on faith. On the Internet, a fortiori, all the more so. While security professionals struggle to establish online trust, CouchSurfing, a social site for tourists who ...

Jim Stone, a 29-year-old from west Texas, has been traveling nonstop since March of 2004. Sometimes in a pickup truck and other times on a motorcycle, he's trekked through much of the United States, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Travel costs continue to rise, and savvy globetrotters are increasingly turning to alternative accommodation options that save ...

CouchSurfing, an online service that lets users find free lodgings, is investigating a security breach after hackers began selling the details of 17 million users on Telegram channels and hacking ...

I read Catharine Hamm’s article “Learning to Share” (Aug. 24) with great interest. I have been thinking a lot about our sharing economy and whether it is really just that. I was surprised that there ...

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The overnight guest hosting site Couchsurfing is under fire after a media investigation revealed that an Italian policeman allegedly used it to invite women to his apartment and sexually assault them.

Behold Kristian Day’s sofa. It’s not only 7 feet long and cushioned, a well-worn refuge of saggy comfort. It’s free for the night. And there's a 5-foot love seat arranged perpendicular to it in this ...