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…

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Print Your Own iPhone Dock

Submitted by admin on November 27, 2009 – 10:40 pmNo Comment

c07755905ad dock.jpg Print Your Own iPhone Dock

Would you like to print your own iPhone docking station? Well, that’s what Will Langford did with his desktop MakerBot CNC, he created his own iPhone charging dock. After creating a 3D model on his computer, he printed out thin layers of plastic stacked on top of each other, which then snaps onto a block of sturdy plywood for stability. Of course, you’ll need to have your own iPod/iPhone charging cable handy. It would be great for everybody to have their own custom designed iPhone docks, wouldn’t it?

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