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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XCM Fire takes the "light" out of light gun, still looks sufficiently violent

Submitted by admin on January 17, 2010 – 5:10 pmNo Comment
7bf838c54fgun 1.jpg XCM Fire takes the "light" out of light gun, still looks sufficiently violent

XCM’s Fire gun controller for the PS3 might look like something you use for aiming at precise segments on your screen that happen to contain the heads, torsos or legs of your enemies; you know, like a light gun. Instead the controller is a motion-sensing affair, with dual analog controls along for the ride — more of an augmentation of traditional console controls than a replacement. We’ve seen this fail miserably before (see: SIXAXSIS), but we’re willing to give XCM the benefit of the doubt. The Fire controller is supposedly “70 percent done,” and there are a couple demo videos after the break. We still want a GameGun.

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