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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Textecution can prevent texting while driving

Submitted by admin on January 16, 2010 – 2:18 amNo Comment

0159e8fa50riving.jpg Textecution can prevent texting while drivingI’m sure we all know that texting while driving is slowly killing our young, and it should be no surprise that companies are coming out with applications to prevent texting while driving accidents from occurring.

For example, Textecution, an Android app that parents can install in their children’s phones. Textecution is designed to shut down texting send and receive functions if the phone is moving at 10 miles per hour or more.

Yes, that doesn’t help a kid if he or she is a passenger in a vehicle and wants to send an important text message, but it is a step in the right direction for preventing accidents, isn’t it?

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