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 ...

Jim Stone, a 29-year-old from west Texas, has been traveling nonstop since March of 2004. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Sometimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lexie McRae gets her spare room ready for a future Couchsurfer. (Natalie Stoker) Diana Smith paused before knocking on the door of the stranger she was supposed to be staying with. 'There's that ...

CouchSurfing, the (formerly) anti-capitalist Airbnb, announced Thursday that it has closed $7.6 million from Benchmark Capital and Omidyar Network. The funding round means that CouchSurfing has ...

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.

An Italian policeman is accused of using traveler website Couchsurfing.com to lure young women to his home then sexually assault them. Dino Maglio will go on trial in March accused of raping a 16-year ...