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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Twitter from space

Submitted by admin on January 24, 2010 – 2:23 amNo Comment

a708972f86witter.jpg Twitter from space

Shortly after Bill Gates jumped aboard the Twitter bandwagon, along comes news that mankind has made the firt tweet from space. Yes sir, NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer who is on board the International Space Station, earlier sent a Twitter message from space this morning with the following – “Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station–the 1st live tweet from Space! icon smile Twitter from space More soon, send your ?s.” You know that new social media has really taken off when it goes out of the earth’s atmosphere.

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