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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Business Card Reader iPhone app

Submitted by admin on December 3, 2009 – 2:18 pmNo Comment

8863aa9cce70x388.png Business Card Reader iPhone appI’m looking forward to CES this January, and I’m sure to bring home a huge stack of business cards. It makes me long to have the Business Card Reader iPhone app that will scan my card and turn it into an iPhone Address Book entry. All the user has to do is take a snapshot of the business card itself, but you will need an iPhone 3GS in order to focus in on it. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) takes over from there to get the name, e-mail address, phone number, and other information needed from the card.

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