Strategic Sharing: Zipcar Leads $13.7M Investment In Campus Car-Sharing Startup Wheelz
February 22, 2012 – 8:25 am | No Comment

Well, you have to hand it to the strategy team over at Zipcar . Arguably the largest on-demand car-sharing network, Zipcar went public last year and not long after saw its market cap cross $1 billion . It’s since fallen back, and with collaborative consumption and the market for car-sharing heating up, the big players have to make moves. Zipcar has since forged a partnership with Ford, making it the largest provider of cars for Zipcar’s University program , and, in December, the company took a controlling stake in Spain’s largest car-sharing network, Avancar . Today finds Zipcar making another strategic move to get its mitts in fellow car-sharing companies, again with a focus on universities, whose students are among the most eager adopters of car-sharing models. What do I mean? The company today announced that it is a lead investor in the $13.7 million series A financing of Wheelz , a junior, university-focused version of itself. The Detroit-based Fontinalis…

Read the full story »
Apple

Latest Apple products news, iPod, iPhone, iTunes, Mac …

Digital Cameras

Digital camcorders, cameras, news and reviews

Gaming

Video games news, reviews, rumors, PS3, Xbox360, Wii, PC, DSi and PSP

Home Entertainment

Latest entertainment technology news, HDTVs, media, audio and video …

PCs

Desktops, data storage, softwares and networking …

Home » News

Microsoft Offering Money To de-Google Content

Submitted by admin on November 23, 2009 – 11:31 amNo Comment

8d4fb86a18Google.jpg Microsoft Offering Money To de Google Content

It’s no secret that Rupert Murdoch isn’t too happy with Google making News Corp content widely available to everybody, so what would Microsoft have to gain for a potential deal with News Corp? Well, word on the street is that Microsoft might be offering to pay News Corp to de-index its news sites from Google, which would probably drive folks searching for News Corp sites to Microsoft’s Bing. If that becomes reality, folks in the UK would probably notice that The Times and The Sun will no longer appear on Google News. Considering that Murdoch has previously threatened to remove News Corp content from Google, this might be an added incentive for him to carry out such a threat.

Related Posts:

  1. Google under fire for promoting own content ahead of competing websites
  2. Microsoft Bing Site Goes Down
  3. iTunes begins offering 90-second song previews
  4. News Corp iPad Daily News App Coming January with 3D
  5. The Daily set to launch in the UK, US edition only

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.