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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Gesture Cube could be the touch device to rule them all

Submitted by admin on February 5, 2010 – 5:41 amNo Comment

a2593a625533304.jpg Gesture Cube could be the touch device to rule them all

Inventions like Microsoft’s touch-enabled table have shown us prototype future furniture components while the Apple iPad has shown us the present-day reality of touch interface-powered media. Now a German design team has come up with a kind of hybrid device that marries the two dynamics into something called the Gesture Cube.

The cube could be used for anything from PCs to home entertainment systems. You can see video of the concept device in action here.

Via GizmoWatch

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