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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Video shows Apple-ish tablet

Submitted by admin on December 12, 2009 – 9:43 amNo Comment

This video shows a shows a tablet inspired by the iPod touch design. I’m not sure if it’s real or fake as the video quality is pretty bad (it always is, right?) but it is still interesting to watch. I don’t think that it is the Apple Tablet anyway, but if you look on the upper-left of the screen, there seems to be a 3G connection icon with full bars. Anyway, it looks good and that’s one minute well spent [nwe via begeek].

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